Dr David Alston is a pioneering independent researcher on the links between the Highlands and the Caribbean and an elected member of the Highland Council.
Mrs Janet Baker is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Highland Archive Service. She collaborated with Karly Kehoe on the ‘Looking Back to Move Forward: Slavery and the Highlands’ project in 2012.
Dr Chris Dalglish is the project’s co-principle investigator and a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. He specialises in the archaeology of the ‘modern past’ (the last 500 years) and in public participation, community development and sustainability in cultural heritage contexts.
Chris Fleet is Senior Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland where he has worked for two decades, primarily on digital mapping and making available historical maps over the web. His main focus is on the NLS Map Images website (http://maps.nls.uk) which currently makes 87,000 maps freely available (primarily of Scotland, but also overseas), for study and comparative use. In addition to this research, he has co-authored two books: Scotland: Mapping the Nation (Birlinn, 2011) and Edinburgh: Mapping the City (Birlinn, 2014).
Dr Michael Given is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. His main research specialism is in the landscape archaeology of the historical period, particularly in colonial situations. He uses archaeological landscape data to address issues of connectivity, agency and negotiation, and has done this with the Roman, Ottoman and British empires.
Professor Marjory Harper is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen and has published widely on the history of the Scottish diaspora. Her study of nineteenth-century emigration, Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus (2003) won the Saltire Society Prize in 2004, and her study of twentieth-century emigration, Scotland No More, won the Frank Watson Prize in 2013.
Dr S. Karly Kehoe is the project’s co-principle investigator and a Senior Lecturer in History at Glasgow Caledonian University. She specialises in the modern British Atlantic world and investigates how religion, ethnicity, and gender in Scottish and Irish communities, at home and abroad, influenced the development of national and imperial identities.
Dr Andrew Mackillop is a Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. His work charts the nature of Scottish, Irish and Welsh involvement in the English East India Company from ca. 1695 to ca. 1813 and he investigates how Scottish citizens engaged in (and helped shape) various economic, legal and political networks for elites in Asia, London and other British imperial zones.
Dr Susan P. Mains is a Lecturer in Geography in the School of the Environment at the University of Dundee. She has extensive experience researching transnationalism, mobility, race and heritage, particularly in relation to diasporic Caribbean communities. She is the co-editor of an upcoming anthology, Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media (Springer) and also coordinates a Carnegie funded collaborative community engagement project exploring cultural landscapes, creative arts, community and the River Tay.
Andrew Nicoll is the Development Manager for Scran based at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. He is responsible for the development of the Scran website through the gathering of more content and provision of services. A registered archivist for over 10 years, he has specialised in religious archives and has a keen interest in Scottish religious history. Nicoll also has an in-depth understanding of the archival landscape in the UK and Ireland, having served previously on the board of the Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland.
Dr Patricia Noxolo is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her work is concerned with the historical geographies of slavery and insecurity, including the mobilities of the slave trade and its radicalised legacies. Her interests include the contested ways in which slavery passes into historical memory, particularly in fictionalised accounts. Her work explores the contributions of multiple landscapes to the construction of historical memory and racialised identity.
Dr Karen Salt is a Lecturer in English in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. She is a specialist in the evolution and ‘afterlives’ of race and power in the Caribbean and African diaspora. In addition to these interests, Salt considers how discourses of race and difference influence decision-making and policy implementation in the UK. Her current work on the latter theme has resulted in a large, collaborative funded project on power and trust in minority communities in the UK and another on fear and othering in the digital world.
Dr Ben Thomas is the project’s RA. He completed his PhD entitled Cultures of Empire in the Scottish Highlands, c. 1876-1902, at the University of Aberdeen in 2015.
Dr Annie Tindley is a Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. She works on the social, political and economic history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in their imperial context. She has worked extensively on the role of landed elites and the ways in which they operated as conduits for international and imperial ideas, traffic, people and governance.
Graham Watson is Head of Resources at Highlife Highland. His main responsibilities include line management of Finance, Human Resources and Culture, capital and revenue budgets, key strategic project management and non-property asset management.