Stephen Bowman

Stephen Bowman is a transatlantic historian of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He obtained his PhD from Northumbria University in 2014 and also has degrees from the University of Stirling. He has taught history at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Durham University, Northumbria University, Newcastle University and Stirling University. His current and future research focuses on the various social and ideological connections between Britain and North America, in particular the Scottish element. He was the 2013 winner of the Transatlantic Studies Association’s prestigious Donald Cameron Watt Prize. His first book, The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895-1945, is published by Edinburgh University Press. He has also written articles for the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, History Scotland magazine, and the Scottish Left Review. He is a native of the Scottish new town of Cumbernauld and is a long-suffering supporter of Clyde Football Club.