Barbara Murison

Associate Professor
PhD, McGill University, 1992

Research Interests

Professor Murison’s research interests include English and Scottish history in the early modern period, the history of the first British Empire and the Scottish diaspora in all its aspects. She is currently working on the history of women in the Scottish Kirk from 1660-1800, and on Presbyterianism on both sides of the Atlantic.

Publications

Professor Murison has published articles in journals such as the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, History Today, the British Journal of Canadian Studies and the Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’etudes Canadiennes. Book chapters include contributions to volumes published by the University of Edinburgh Press, Dundurn Press and McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her most recent publications are ‘Old Favourites or New Style: Creating the Hymnal of the Presbyterian Church in Canada’, in Blumhofer and Noll (eds.), Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism (University of Alabama Press 2004) and four articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

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