Centre for History

Lecturer and Programme Leader for History
Tel: (01847) 889 621
history@uhi.ac.uk

Dr Kehoe completed her PhD in History at the University of Glasgow in 2005. Her work concentrates on the relationship between national identity, religion and gender in modern Britain, Ireland and Empire. She sits on the steering committee of Women’s History Scotland and is the editor of the Modern Bibliography for the History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland. She is also the managing editor of the Britain and the World journal.  

Academic Qualifications 

2006-08: SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Guelph, Canada 

2005: PhD University of Glasgow, Scotland

1999: BA (Hons) Saint Mary's University, Canada

Publications

Books:  

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    

Co-Edited with Iain H. MacPhail, A Panorama of Scottish History: Contemporary Considerations. Glasgow, Scottish History, 2004.

Co-Authored with Brian Peters and Pamela Forsyth-Hudson, The New Learning Guide: Education Opportunities, Alternatives, and Enhancements for Maritime Communities. Margaree, Margaree Education Coalition, 2000.

Articles:

"Unionism, Nationalism and the Scottish Catholic Periphery, 1850-1930" in Britain and the World Journal. 4.1 (2011), pp. 65-83. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/brw.2011.0005 

“Catholic identity in the Diaspora: Nineteenth-century Ontario” in Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora. Tanja Bueltmann, Graeme Morton and Andrew Hinson, eds. Toronto, Stewart Publishing, 2009, pp. 83-100.  http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/scottishstudies/guelphseriesinscottishstudies

“Irish Migrants and the Recruitment of Catholic Sisters to Glasgow, 1847-1878” in Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century. Frank Ferguson and James McConnell, eds. Dublin, Four Courts, 2009, pp. 35-47. http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=832

“The Venerable Margaret Sinclair: Edinburgh’s twentieth-century factory girl” in Feminist Theology. Vol. 16, No. 2 (2008), pp. 169-183. http://fth.sagepub.com/content/16/2/169.abstract

“Margaret Sinclair: the Making of a Saint” in History Scotland. 8.5 (Sept/Oct 2008), pp. 37-41. http://www.historyscotland.com/backissuelist.html?yid=8&o=0

“Nursing the Mission: The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and the Sisters of Mercy in Glasgow, 1847-1860” in Innes Review. 56.1 (2005), pp. 46-60. http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.2005.56.1.46

Current Research Projects

The McClement Project was launched in June 2009 and is a collaborative research initiative of UHI’s Centre for History, the Scottish Catholic Archives and the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. It centres on the journal of Richard C. McClement, an Irishman and assistant surgeon who served with the Royal Navy from 1857 to 1871. A main aim of the project is to investigate the journal's deeper links with fields such as the history of medicine, religious identity and British imperial history. www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/mcclement

A conference entitled “Ireland and Empire: Seafaring, Slaving and Salvation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World”, co-hosted by the Centre for History of the University of the Highlands and Islands and the Gorsebrook Research Institute of Saint Mary's University, will be held on 7-9 June 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr Nini Rogers of Queen's University Belfast and Professor Angela McCarthy of the University of Otago are confirmed as the keynote speakers. Download Call for Papers

Research Interests

 

Modern Britain with a focus on Scotland and Ireland

Empire

Scottish and Irish Diasporas

Gender History

History of Catholicism

Canadian First Nations and Inuit