Dr Stephen Bowman

Stephen completed his undergraduate and Masters degrees at Stirling before going on to complete his PhD at Northumbria University in Newcastle in 2014. He was worked in the early modern period but has since largely settled in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to previous spells working at Stirling, he has taught at Northumbria University, Newcastle University, Durham University, and at the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Stephen has conducted research across Britain and the US and has published on Anglo-American relations and politics. His 2018 book with Edinburgh University Press - The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895-1945 - focuses on propaganda, cultural diplomacy, and networking between British and American elites in the first half of the twentieth century. Stephen also has developing research interests in the historical cultural and political connections between Scotland and the US. He has published on many of these topics - and others - including with the Journal of Transatlantic Studies and History Scotland. Stephen was the 2013 winner of the Transatlantic Studies Association's Donald Cameron Watt Prize.

His latest article is 'The Scottish-American Association, 1919-1923: A Study in Failure', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (2019), pp. 166-192.

Stephen coordinates HISU9X5: History Dissertation Preparation for Combined Degrees and also has teaching responsibilities on HISU9S3: Reputations in History and HISU921: The Making of Modern Britain.

More generally, Stephen has taught a wide variety of Scottish, British, and North American topics and has written a module on 'The UK and the US: A History of Special Relationships.'

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.