Interactive CV
EMPLOYMENT
Current
Interim Director of Lab for Education and Advancement of Digital Research, 2024-Present
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Assistant Professor of History, 2022-Present
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Digital Humanities (DH@MSU) Core Faculty, 2023-Present
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
EDUCATION
Central Michigan University, PhD in Transnational and Comparative History, May 2021
Major Field: Early Modern Europe
Minor Fields: United States Survey, Medieval Civilization
Dissertation: Challenging Borders: The Revolutionary Scottish Administration and the Coast, 1688-91
University of Strathclyde, Master of Research, History, November 2017
Central Michigan University, Master of Arts, History, August 2016
University of Strathclyde, Bachelor of Arts with Honors, First Class, May 2014
SCHOLARLY & CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
In Progress
Book Manuscript: “Uncertain Environments: The North Channel and the Scottish Revolution, 1688-91.”
Book Chapter: “Real and Imagined Enemies: The Privy Council and Prisoners of War, 1688-97.”
Article: Gillian Sarah Macdonald, “Sailors, Spies, and Sovereignty: Greenock’s Revolutionary Turmoil, 1688-1691,” Britain and the World (under review).
Published
Peer Reviewed Articles
Gillian Sarah Macdonald, “Bestowing Charity: War Widows and the Privy Council during the Williamite Revolution in Scotland (1688-91)” Parliaments Estates & Representation (2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2023.2279382.
Gillian Sarah Macdonald, “Black-boxes, flying packets, and espionage: the information trade and Scottish governance, 1689-91” Parliaments Estates & Representation 40, no. 3 (December 2020): 269-289, https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2020.1853882.
Gillian Sarah Macdonald, “Intertwined from the Beginning: Regime Change, Strategic Security, and the Scottish Revolution, 1688-90” Historical Studies Vol. 19 (2019): 33-60.
Public History Projects
Curator, Content Researcher | Abundant Waters: Our Relationship with Michigan’s Most Precious Resource | Exhibit, Clarke Historical Library (2021-2022)
Digital Exhibit Creator | Abundant Waters: Our Relationship with Michigan’s Most Precious Resource | Exhibit, Clarke Historical Library (2022)
Book Reviews
Review of Karin Bowie, Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560-1707 for Eighteenth-Century Scotland (June 2022).
Review of Oliver Ayers, Labored Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit during the New Deal and Second World War for Michigan Historical Review (Fall 2019).
Review of David Nichols, Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region for Michigan Historical Review (Spring 2019).
Podcast
Invited Author Interview, BBC Radio Scotland, “Time Travels: Motorbikes and McDonalds” Scottish History Podcast (May 2022).
Public Writing
“Abundant Waters: Our Most Precious Resource,” Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2022/03/abundant-waters-our-relationship-with.html (2022)
“Abundant Waters: Our Relationship with Michigan’s Most Precious Resource,” Friends of the Library Newsletter, Park Library, https://www.cmich.edu/docs/default-source/academic-affairs-division/libraries/university-library/newsletters/20220310_friendsofthelibrariesnewsletter_march202298522029-274f-4575-b01a-72da2af422f1.pdf?sfvrsn=351a2bad_7 (2022)
“One of the Most Wonderful Things”: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Detroit Walk to Freedom, Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2022/01/one-of-most-wonderful-things-martin.html (2022)
“Happy Holidays from the Clarke!” Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2021/12/ (2021)
“Who’s that looking at me from the courtyard?” Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2021/11/ (2021)
“A Fall of Fires: The 150th Anniversary of the Peshtigo and Great Michigan Fires,” Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2021/10/a-fall-of-fires-150th-anniversary-of.html (2021)
“Lest we Forget: Remembering September 11,” Clarke Historical Library: News and Notes, https://www.clarkehistoricallibrary.org/2021/09/lest-we-forget-remembering-september-11.html (2021)