Dr Valerie Wallace

Dr Valerie Wallace

Lecturer in the History of Scotland and the Wider World, c.1600-c.1914

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2883
Email
vw26@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

I joined the School of History at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2022 after teaching for ten years at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. Before my New Zealand era I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Bentham Project in the Faculty of Laws at UCL (2010-2012) and the inaugural Fulbright Scottish Studies visiting scholar at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University (2011-2012). In 2023 I was the Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th-century Scottish Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Research areas

I am primarily interested in the influence of Scottish ideas, particularly those associated with Scotland's distinctive religious and legal traditions, in Britain's nineteenth-century empire. My first book, (2018), which won the Frank Watson prize for best first book in Scottish history, examined the subversive politics of Scottish religious dissenters in the Anglophone world during the age of revolution and reform. Current research, funded by a major grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand and a personal fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, considers the role of Scots law in the British empire. In addition, I manage , a digital resource on New Zealand’s parliamentary history for researchers, students and the public, which includes the first searchable database of New Zealand’s politicians, past and present.

PhD supervision

  • Maggie Blackburn

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Wallace, V., 7 May 2025, In: History of European Ideas. Online, p. 1-18

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Wallace, V., Dec 2024, In: Scottish Historical Review. 103, 3, p. 543-545 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Wallace, V., 21 May 2023, Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish intellectual life, 1790-1914. Fyfe, A. & Kidd, C. C. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 187-204 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Open access
    Wallace, V. & Boyd, T., 5 Dec 2022, History Workshop Online.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Wallace, V., 28 Oct 2022, TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, 6239, p. 12-12 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review

  • Wallace, V., 1 Apr 2021, In: New Zealand Journal of History. 55, 1, p. 127-128 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Wallace, V., 2020, In: Northern Scotland.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Wallace, V., 2019, In: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 20, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Wallace, V., Apr 2019, In: Scottish Historical Review. 98, 1, p. 153-155 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Wallace, V., Apr 2019, In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 70, 2, p. 421-423 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review