Karly is a Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. She joined the British Scholar Society in 2010 and is the managing editor of its journal, Britain and the World.
Research Interests:
History of Catholicism; Scottish and Irish Diasporas; Identity and Citizenship in the British World; Gender History; Scotland and Slavery
Current Research Projects:
Her current research is focused on Catholics in Empire and it is grounded in the McClement Project which focuses on Irish surgeons in the Royal Navy. (http://scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/mcclement/). In connection with this, she is co-organising a conference with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies entitled Ireland and Empire: Seafaring, Slaving and Salvation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. This conference will be held in Halifax from 7 to 9 June 2012. For more information: http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/irish/conference.html
Additionally, she is also investigating the relationship between slavery and the Highlands and Islands between 1750 and 1850. Funding from the Edinburgh Beltane Beacon for Public Engagement enabled her to run the Looking Back to Move Forward: Slavery and the Highlands project with students from Inverness Royal Academy.
Selected Publications:
“Border Crossings: Being Irish in Nineteenth-Century Scotland and Canada” in Irish Women in the Diaspora: Theories, Concepts and New Perspectives, Hickman, Mary and MacPherson, Jim, eds., Manchester University Press (In Press, due autumn 2012)
“Unionism, Nationalism and the Scottish Catholic Periphery,” Britain and the World. 4:1 (2011): 65-83. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/brw.2011.0005
Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, gender and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Scotland. Manchester, Manchester University Press (2010) http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204666
“Catholic identity in the Diaspora: Nineteenth-century Ontario,” Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora. Tanja Bueltmann, Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton, eds. Toronto, Stewart Publishing, 2009: 83-100. http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/Scottish%20Studies/Guelph%20Series%20in%20Scottish%20Studies
“Irish Migrants and the Recruitment of Catholic Sisters to Glasgow, 1847-1878,” Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century. Frank Ferguson and James McConnell, eds. Dublin, Four Courts, 2009: 35-47. http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=832
“The Venerable Margaret Sinclair: Edinburgh’s twentieth-century factory girl,” Feminist Theology. 16 (2008): 169-183. http://fth.sagepub.com/content/16/2.toc
“Nursing the Mission: The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and the Sisters of Mercy in Glasgow, 1847-1860,” Innes Review. 56 (2005): 46-60. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.2005.56.1.46
