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 ; Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 and the award winning book The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713. In 2014 he published the co-authored book 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 and with Alexia Grosjean Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period. This same pairing created the Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database.
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. He thereafter gained a four year AHRC funded post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Aberdeen. Murdoch was awarded a lectureship at the University of St Andrews in January 2004. He was promoted Reader in 2006 and full-Professor in 2010. He was nominated for, and won, the prestigious by Vetenskapsrådet 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. 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

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