Steve Murdoch

Steve Murdoch is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He is author on the history of Scotland and the Wider World in general and of Scotland and Scandinavia in particular. His monographs include Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000/2003); Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006) and the award winning book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010). In 2014 he published the co-authored book (with Alexia Grosjean) Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648. He has edited several volumes including Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2000) and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005). This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE).

Murdoch's first job after gaining his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen in 1998 was as a research associate at The Roehampton Institute (based in Scandinavia as a researcher for Professor Peter Edwards). He thereafter gained a four year AHRC funded post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Aberdeen (2000-2003). Murdoch was awarded a lectureship at the University of St Andrews (School of History) in January 2004. He was promoted Reader in 2006 and full-Professor in 2010. He was nominated for, and won, the prestigious Olof Palme Professorship in Peace Studies by Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council) for the academic year 2013-2014. Soon after he was head-hunted, but declined a named chair in Scottish history at the University of Strathclyde (2015). In 2018, Murdoch was awarded an honorary five year Visiting Professorship' at the UHI Centre for Nordic Studies, though he remains firmly based at The University of St Andrews.

Main Publications

• Unimpeded Sailing: A Critical Edition of Johan Grönings Navigatio libera (Extended 1698 Edition) (2019) with Peter Maxwell-Stuart (translator) and Leos Müller (co-editor)
• Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2014) with Alexia Grosjean
• The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (2010)
• The Navigator. The Log of John Anderson, VOC Pilot-Major, 1640-1643 (2010) with co-editors Victor Enthoven and Eila Williamson
• Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (2006)
• Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (2005) with Alexia Grosjean
• Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (2001)
• Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603-1660 (2000)

For a list of Professor Murdoch's articles visit his Research Outputs page via the University of St Andrews.

External links

• Biography page at University of St Andrews School of History
• The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE)