Staff Profiles
Professor Susan-Mary Grant
Professor of American History
- Email: susan-mary.grant@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
缅北禁地
缅北禁地
NE1 7RU
UK
Office Hours Semester 1 Mondays 10.00 to12.00 and one other hour by arrangement.
Room ARMB 1.20A
Administrative Roles and Responsibilities
- Chair, British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH):
- REF2014 History Sub-Panel
- Deputy Head of School (2010-2015)
- Degree Programe Director, History (2004/05 and 2006-)
- Third Strand (Business Development) Co-ordinator (2004/05)
- RAE sub-panel History (N62) for 2008 RAE.
- Editor, American Nineteenth Century History (2005-2010)
- Member, Advisory Council for the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College (2004-)
- Editorial Board, Nations and Nationalism (1999-)
- Academic Advisor, M.Res., Brunel University
- Member, Institute of United States Studies Advisory Council (1998-2004)
- Secretary to the British American Nineteenth Century Historians’ association (1992-2001)
- Treasurer to the above (1992-1994)
- International Membership Convenor, Organization of American Historians (1995-1999)
- Advisor, Institute of United State Studies RAE and TQA reviews (1998-2002)
- Editor, The British-American (1988-1992)
Qualifications
PhD London
Previous Positions
2002- University of 缅北禁地-upon-Tyne: Reader in American History
1996- University of 缅北禁地-upon-Tyne: Grade B Lecturer
1992- University of 缅北禁地-upon-Tyne: Grade A Lecturer
1990-91 University of Essex: temporary, part-time lecturer
1989-90 University of Kent: temporary, part-time contract lecturer
University of Middlesex: temporary contract lecturer
1987-88 Research Assistant for Professor Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh
Memberships
• Co-founder/Steering Committee for ARENA (Association for Research into Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas), housed at the Walker Institute, University of South Carolina ().
• Organization of American Historians (Committee 1995-2000)
• British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (Co-Founder & Secretary 1993-1999; Committee 1999-2003; Honorary Life Member 2003-)*
• Southern Historical Association
• British Association for American Studies (since 1986)
• Scottish Association for the Study of America (Treasurer 1999-2001)
• British Commission for Military History
• Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
• *In 1993 I co-founded the British American Nineteenth-Century Historians’ association (BrANCH: ). In 2000 the association brought out a new journal, American Nineteenth Century History ().
Honours and Awards
• Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS)
• Gilder-Lehrman Research Fellowship, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (1999/2000)
• Research Fellow, Institute of United States Studies (1998-2004)
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Articles
- Grant S-M. . British Library Eccles Centre 2025. In Press.
- Grant S-M. . American Nineteenth Century History 2023, 24(1), 1-28.
- Grant S-M. . Slavery and Abolition 2021, 43(1), 160-184.
- Grant SM, Bowe D. . Genealogy 2020, 4(2), 43.
- Grant S-M. . Critical Military Studies 2020, 6(2), 140-159.
- Grant S-M. . Nations and Nationalism 2019, 26(2), 366-387.
- Grant S-M. . Small Wars and Insurgencies 2019, 30(4-5), 818-840.
- Grant S. . Nations and Nationalism 2018, 24(2), 300-311.
- Grant S-M. . Genealogy 2018, 2(4), 45.
- Grant S-M. . Women's History Review 2016, 26(4), 568-583.
- Grant S-M, Heale M, Parafianowicz H, Vaudagna M. . The American Historical Review 2014, 119(3), 749-759.
- Grant S-M. . Social History of Medicine 2014, 27(4), 689-707.
- Grant SM. . The Journal of the Civil War Era 2012, 2(2), 233-259.
- Grant S-M. . Journal of War and Culture Studies 2011, 4(3), 305-322.
- Grant S-M. . History Teaching Review Year Book 2011, 25, 63-78.
- Grant S. . Nations and Nationalism 2008, 14(3), 498-519.
- Grant SM. . Proceedings of the British Academy 2008, 154, 273-317.
- Grant, SM. ‘The First Grand War of Contemporaneous History’: The American Civil War in Global Context. Scottish Association for Teachers of History Handbook 2007, (June 2007), 16-24.
- Grant S. . American Nineteenth Century History 2004, 5(3), 74-100.
- Grant SM. . History Today 2002, 52(9), 11-17.
- Grant SM. . History Today 2002, (September), 11-17.
- Grant SM. . History 2001, 86(281), 62-66.
- Grant SM. . History Today 2000, 50(7), 20-27.
- Grant SM. . History Today 2000, 50(7), 20-27.
- Susan-Mary Grant. “Representative Mann: Horace Mann, the Republican Experiment and the South.”. Journal of American Studies 1998, 32(1), 105-123.
- Susan-Mary Grant. “Pride and Prejudice: African-American Troops in the Civil War.”. History Today 1998, September 1998, 41-48.
- Susan-Mary Grant. “‘The Charter of its Birthright’: The Civil War and American Nationalism,.”. Nations and Nationalism 1998, 4(2), 163-85.
- Susan-Mary Grant. "When is a nation not a nation?: The crisis of American nationality in the mid-nineteenth century.". Nations and Nationalism 1996, 2(1), 105-29.
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Authored Books
- Grant SM. . New York: Routledge, 2016.
- Grant SM. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Grant SM. . New York: Routledge, 2006.
- Grant SM, Parish PJ. . Baton Rouge: Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
- Grant SM. . Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
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Book Chapters
- Grant SM. . In: Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, ed. Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. In Press.
- Grant SM. . In: Schoen, Brian, Jewel L. Spangler and Frank Towers, ed. Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America. Fordham University Press, 2023, pp.189-220.
- Grant SM. . In: Cathie Carmichael, Matthew D’Auria, Aviel Roshwald, ed. The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp.281-300.
- Grant S-M. . In: Laura R. Sandy and Marie S. Molloy, ed. The Civil War and Slavery Reconsidered: Negotiating the Peripheries. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.145-168.
- Grant S-M. . In: David Seed et.al, ed. Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2015, pp.80-92.
- Grant S-M. . In: Lorien Foote and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, ed. So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the Civil War Era North. New York, NY, USA: Fordham University Press, 2015, pp.41-63.
- Grant S. . In: Susana Carvalho and Francois Gemenne, ed. Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.237-254.
- Grant S. . In: James M. Campbell and Rebecca J. Fraser, ed. Reconstruction: People and Perspectives. California: ABC-Clio, 2008, pp.161-187.
- Grant SM. . In: Kleinberg, SJ; Boris, E; Ruiz, VL, ed. The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007, pp.106-125.
- Grant SM. . In: Gray, R; Zacharasiewicz, W, ed. Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe-Europe in the American South. Wein (Vienna): Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007, pp.181-206.
- Grant SM. . In: Doyle, DH; Pamplona, MA, ed. Nationalism in the New World. Athens, Georgia, USA: University of Georgia Press, 2006, pp.80-98.
- Grant SM. . In: Ichijo, A., Uzelac, G, ed. When is the Nation?: Towards an Understanding of Theories of Nationalism. London: Routledge, 2005, pp.157-176.
- Grant SM. . In: Gray, R., Robinson, O, ed. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, pp.76-92.
- Grant SM. . In: Gray, R., Robinson, O, ed. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, pp.93-109.
- Susan-Mary Grant. "Making History: Myth and the Construction of American Nationhood.". In: George Schöpflin and Geoffrey Hosking, ed. Myths and Nationhood. London: C. Hurst and Company, 1997, pp.88-106.
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Edited Books
- Grant S, Holden Reid B, ed. . New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Grant SM, Reid BH, ed. . London: Longman, 2000.
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Review
- Grant S. . Nations and Nationalism 2005, 11(4), 509-529.