Dr Katie Barclay

Biography/ Background

Katie Barclay is a graduate in Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow, where she completed her undergraduate degree, Masters and PhD.  Before joining the University of Adelaide, she held a postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast. Between 2008 and 2010, she worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick on a project, run jointly with Queen’s, ‘Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925’.  In 2007-8, Dr Barclay was the Economic History Society Anniversary Fellow, held through the Institute of Historical Research, London.

Qualifications

Ph.D. Economic and Social History (University of Glasgow)

MPhil. Social History (University of Glasgow)

MA(Hons) Economic and Social History (University of Glasgow)

Awards & Achievements

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.

2010 Roberts Fund, administered by the University of Warwick. £600 towards research costs for project on Irish masculinity.

2007-2008 Economic History Society Anniversary Fellowship, administered by the Institute of Historical Research.

2005 Scottish Women’s History Network Essay Prize.

2003-2007 ESRC 1+3 Research Grant.

Research Interests

Dr Barclay is an economic and social, cultural and gender historian, specialising in Scotland and Ireland across the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. She is currently working with Professor David Lemmings and Dr Claire Walker on a research project ‘Governing Emotion: the Affective Family, the Press and the Law in Early Modern Britain’, which explores representations of the family and the law in the early modern press. This builds on her previous research on the history of emotions within Scottish marriage, between 1650 and 1850. Dr Barclay is concurrently completing a monograph on Irish masculinity and the court system, 1800 to 1845, that pulls together her interest in cultural performances of identity, popular culture, emotions and power relationships.

Publications

Monograph

Love Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011).

Edited Collections

With Deborah Simonton (eds), Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, (Ashgate, 2013).

With Sarah Richardson (eds), Special edition: ‘Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Perspective’, Women’s History Review, 22(2) (2013).
 
With Rosi Carr, Rosemary Elliott and Annemarie Hughes (eds), Special edition: ‘Gender and Generations: Women and Lifecycles’, Women’s History Review, 20(2) (2011).

With Catriona Haston and Rachel McAdams (eds), Historical Perspectives 5th Anniversary Special Edition, E-Sharp, (2008).

Refereed Journal Articles

With Sarah Richardson, ‘Introduction: Performing the Self: Women’s Lives in Historical Perspectives’, Women’s History Review, 22(2) (2013).

‘Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, Women’s History Review, Special Edition, 21(4) (2012), pp. 1-17.

With Siobhan Talbott, ‘New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scottish History’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 31(1) (2011), pp. 119-33.

With Rosi Carr, Rosemary Elliott, and Annmarie Hughes, ‘Introduction: Gender and Generations: Women and Lifecycles Special Edition’, Women’s History Review, 20(2) (2011), pp. 175-88.

‘Intimacy and the Life-cycle in the Marital Relationships of the Scottish Elite during the Long-Eighteenth Century’, Women’s History Review, 20(2) (2011), pp. 189-206.

‘Composing the Self: Gender and Subjectivity within Scottish Balladry’, Cultural and Social History, 7(3), (2010), pp. 337-353.

‘Thinking about Family Legacy’, Women’s History Magazine, 61 (Autumn/ Winter 2009), pp. 26-29.

‘Negotiating Patriarchy: The Marriage of Anna Potts and Archibald Grant of Monymusk’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 28(2) (2008), pp. 83-101.

Refereed Book Chapters

‘Sex and the Scottish Self in the Long-Eighteenth Century’, in Jodi Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan and Heather Parker (eds), Shaping Scottish Identity: Family, Nation and the World Beyond, Guelph Series in Scottish Studies (Guelph, 2011), pp. 29-42.

‘“And Four Years Space they Loveingly Agreed”: Balladry and Early Modern Understandings of Marriage’, in Elizabeth Ewan and Janey Nugent (eds), Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 23-34.

Community Engagement

Lead Editor, Women’s History Magazine, 2011 to Present.

Website Administrator, Economic and Social History Society for Scotland, September 2011 to Present.

Blog Administrator, Women’s History Network, September 2009 to Present.

Entry last updated: Monday, 21 May 2012