Staff Profiles

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

• Chair, British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH): http://branchuk.wordpress.com/
• 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 Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Reader in American History
1996- University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Grade B Lecturer
1992- University of Newcastle-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 (www.cas.sc.edu/arena/).
• 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: www.br-anch.org/). In 2000 the association brought out a new journal, American Nineteenth Century History (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14664658.asp).

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)

• Articles

  • Grant S-M. Anger Nation: Two Moments in American Emotional Time. British Library Eccles Centre 2025. In Press.
  • Grant S-M. Feeling right about the Civil War: the Union’s battle for emotional health. American Nineteenth Century History 2023, 24(1), 1-28.
  • Grant S-M. ‘Dere never wuz a war like dis war’: The WPA Narratives and the Emotional Echoes of the Civil War. Slavery and Abolition 2021, 43(1), 160-184.
  • Grant SM, Bowe D. “My Daddy…He Was a Good Man”: Gendered Genealogies and Memories of Enslaved Fatherhood in America’s Antebellum South. Genealogy 2020, 4(2), 43.
  • Grant S-M. ‘The Kindness of Strangers: Soldiers, Surgeons, Civilians and Conflict Intimacies in the American Civil War.’. Critical Military Studies 2020, 6(2), 140-159.
  • Grant S-M. Toward a topography of national trauma: mapping the past onto the future of American nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 2019, 26(2), 366-387.
  • Grant S-M. Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War. Small Wars and Insurgencies 2019, 30(4-5), 818-840.
  • Grant S. Promised land, chosen people: the landscapes and ligaments of American nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 2018, 24(2), 300-311.
  • Grant S-M. In War Time: Dialectics of Descent, Consent, and Conflict in American Nationalism. Genealogy 2018, 2(4), 45.
  • Grant S-M. When the Fires Burned Too Close to Home: southern women and the dislocations of the home front in the American Civil War. Women's History Review 2016, 26(4), 568-583.
  • Grant S-M, Heale M, Parafianowicz H, Vaudagna M. Characteristics and Contours: Mapping American History in Europe. The American Historical Review 2014, 119(3), 749-759.
  • Grant S-M. "Mortal in this season": Union Surgeons and the Narrative of Medical Modernisation in the American Civil War. Social History of Medicine 2014, 27(4), 689-707.
  • Grant SM. The Lost Boys: Citizen-Soldiers, Disabled Veterans, and Confederate Nationalism in the Age of People’s War. The Journal of the Civil War Era 2012, 2(2), 233-259.
  • Grant S-M. Constructing a commemorative culture: American veterans and memorialization from Valley Forge to Vietnam. Journal of War and Culture Studies 2011, 4(3), 305-322.
  • Grant S-M. Conflict and Commemoration: Centennials, Sesquicentennials and the Ongoing Battle over America's History. History Teaching Review Year Book 2011, 25, 63-78.
  • Grant S. Reimagined Communities: Union veterans and the reconstruction of American nationalism. Nations and Nationalism 2008, 14(3), 498-519.
  • Grant SM. Reconstructing the National Body: Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War. 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. Patriot Graves: American national identity and the Civil War dead. American Nineteenth Century History 2004, 5(3), 74-100.
  • Grant SM. New light on the Lady with the Lamp - Florence Nightingale's influence on medical care in the Crimea and the US Civil War. History Today 2002, 52(9), 11-17.
  • Grant SM. New Light on the Lady with the Lamp. History Today 2002, (September), 11-17.
  • Grant SM. Lincoln's world: Virtues, values and violence in the Civil War era (A review essay of new publications by Timothy R. Mahoney, Amy Dru Stanley, Duane Schultz and Walter B. Stevens). History 2001, 86(281), 62-66.
  • Grant SM. For God and Country: Why Men Joined Up for the US Civil War. History Today 2000, 50(7), 20-27.
  • Grant SM. For God & country: Why men joined up for the US Civil War. 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.

• Authored Books

  • Grant SM. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice. New York: Routledge, 2016.
  • Grant SM. A Concise History of the United States of America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Grant SM. The War for a Nation : the American Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  • Grant SM, Parish PJ. Legacy of Disunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2003.
  • Grant SM. North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

• Book Chapters

  • Grant SM. 'A Bridge of Light that Spanned the Atlantic': Great Britain, Race, and the Emotional Legacy of America’s Сivil War. In: Ivan Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva, ed. Echoes of the American Civil War Abroad. Rowman and Littlefield, 2025. In Press.
  • Grant SM. 'Hold the Fort': Securing the Soldiers' State in Nineteenth-Century America. 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. A Tale of Two Cities: The American Civil War. 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. "The contraband’s death is more miserable than her life": violence, visibility, and the medicalization of freedom in the American Civil War. 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. Disembodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat. 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. Civil War Cybernetics: Medicine, Modernity, and the Intellectual Mechanics of Union. 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. A Season of War: Warriors, Veterans and Warfare in American Nationalism. In: Susana Carvalho and Francois Gemenne, ed. Nations and their Histories: Constructions and Representations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.237-254.
  • Grant S. 'Former Confederate and Union Soldiers in Reconstruction.'. In: James M. Campbell and Rebecca J. Fraser, ed. Reconstruction: People and Perspectives. California: ABC-Clio, 2008, pp.161-187.
  • Grant SM. To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds: Women and the American Civil War. 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. 'A Study in Scarlett O'Hara?' The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle. 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. Americans, Forging a New Nation, 1860-1916. In: Doyle, DH; Pamplona, MA, ed. Nationalism in the New World. Athens, Georgia, USA: University of Georgia Press, 2006, pp.80-98.
  • Grant SM. When was the first new nation? Locating America in a national context. 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. The Slavery Debate. 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. Southern Writers and the Civil War. 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.

• Edited Books

  • Grant S, Holden Reid B, ed. Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States. New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • Grant SM, Reid BH, ed. The American Civil War: Explorations and Reconsiderations. London: Longman, 2000.

• Review

  • Grant S. Raising the dead: War, memory and American national identity. Nations and Nationalism 2005, 11(4), 509-529.