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Professor Tom Devine, OBE, BA, PhD, Dlitt, Hon DLitt (QUB), Hon Dlitt (Abertay) FRHist S, FRSE, Hon MRIA, FBA

pic: Professor Tom DevineGlucksman Research Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies

email: ahrbciss@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0) 1224 273681

Tom Devine is Glucksman Professor of Irish & Scottish Studies and Director of the AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

He was educated at Strathclyde University, Glasgow where he graduated with first class honours in History in 1968 followed by a PhD and D.Litt. He rose through the academic ranks from assistant lecturer to Reader, Professor, Head of Department, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and finally Deputy Principal of the University in 1992. In 1998 he accepted the Directorship of the world's first centre of advanced research in Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen, which was formally inaugurated by President Mary McAleese on St Andrew's Day, 30 November 1999.

Professor Devine is the author or editor of some two dozen books on such varied topics as emigration, famine, identity, Scottish transatlantic commercial links, urban history, the Scottish Highlands and rural social history. The Scottish Nation (1999), became an international best seller and for a time, even outsold the adventures of Harry Potter in Scotland.  He has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (limited to 25 scholars world-wide) and a Fellow of the British Academy, one of only five historians of Scotland elected FBA in the last hundred years. Professor Devine holds the honorary degrees of D.Litt. from the Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Abertay, Dundee. In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Medal, by H.M. The Queen, Scotland's highest academic accolade.  His latest major work, Scotland's Empire was published in 2003 and formed the basis of a six-part BBC2 series.

Tom Devine is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Leverhulme Trust and the Advisory Greoup of the ESRC's Devolution Research Programme and holds visiting Professorships across the Atlantic at the Universities of North Carolina and Guelph, Canada.

He is married to Catherine and has five children. His hobbies include travelling in Italy, walking in the Hebrides and watching skilful football.

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