Academic Programmes and Research Projects


Transatlantic Studies, Edinburgh:

University of Edinburgh (English Literature) - Literature and Transatlanticism, MSc/Dip. Learn more about how this academic community is affiliated with STAR: Literature and Transatlanticism.

Transatlantic studies elsewhere:

College of Charlestown (South Carolina) - The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program

Duke University: Oceans Connect Project

Early Scottish Maritime History Project (convened by the Early Scottish Maritime Exchange) - The project's goal is to 'collate the wealth of information relating to Scottish maritime activity prior to 1850 that abounds at home and abroad.'

Harvard University - International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

NYU - The Atlantic World Workshop: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/atlantic/schedule.html

UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade, Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World, College of Charleston: http://www.cofc.edu/atlanticworld

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Center for European Studies

University of Southampton - MA in Transnational Studies


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Scottish studies

Scottish studies in the U.K.:

Glasgow-Strathclyde School of Scottish Studies

Leverhulme Science of Man in Scotland Project

Scottish Chapbook Project

University of Aberdeen - Elphinstone Institute
The Institute's mission is to research, document, and promote the Ethnology and Folklore of the North and North East of Scotland

University of Aberdeen - Centre for the Study of Scottish Philosophy

University of Aberdeen - Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

University of Edinburgh - Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies

University of Edinburgh - Department of Scottish History

University of Edinburgh - Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)

University of Edinburgh - School of Scottish Studies

University of Glasgow - Scottish History Department

University of Glasgow - Scottish Literature Department

University of Stirling - Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies

University of Ulster - Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies

Scottish studies in Canada:

Simon Fraser University - Centre for Scottish Studies

St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia) - Department of Celtic Studies

University of Guelph - Scottish Studies Department

Scottish studies in the U.S.:

UCLA - Celtic Studies

University of South Carolina - Scottish Literature Department

Scottish studies elsewhere:

Scottish Studies Centre, Johannes-Gutenberg University at Germersheim, Germany


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Canadian studies

Canadian studies in the U.K.:

University of Edinburgh - Centre of Canadian Studies

University of Leeds - Centre for Canadian Studies

University of Warwick - School of Comparative American Studies
Offers a degree programme which aims to examine the total American experience - Canada, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean - through inter-disciplinary study of the history, culture and literature of the Americas.

Canadian studies in Canada:

Institute of Island Studies
'A research, education and public policy institute based at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada. With an emphasis always on Prince Edward Island, the work of the Institute focuses on the culture, environment and economy of small islands.'

Trent University - Canadian Studies Program

Canadian studies in the U.S.:

Duke University Center for North American Studies - Canadian Studies Program

University of Maine - Canadian-American Center

University of Vermont - Canadian Studies Program


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American studies

American studies in the U.K.:

ARNet: Online resources for American Studies (American Studies Resources Centre, Liverpool John Moores University) - Content includes details of all undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in American Studies in the UK.

University of Dundee - School of American Studies

University of East Anglia - School of American Studies

University of Edinburgh - United States Literature, MSc

University of Glasgow - Hook Centre for American Studies

University of Warwick - School of Comparative American Studies
Offers a degree programme which aims to examine the total American experience - Canada, the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean - through inter-disciplinary study of the history, culture and literature of the Americas.

American studies in the U.S.:

College of William and Mary - Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

University of Pennsylvania - McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Yale University Law School - Avalon Project
Digitization of American documents in law, history and diplomacy from the 18th-21st centuries.


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Caribbean studies

Haitian Summer Institute (Florida International University) - 'Now in its seventh year, the Florida Consortium for Latin American Studies sponsors the Haitian Summer Institute, designed as an intensive introduction to the Haitian Creole language and Haitian culture and politics. The Institute focuses on Haiti through an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating the disciplines of language, linguistics, literature, history, international relations, religious studies, economics, sociology/anthropology and political science.'

University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (Jamaica)

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados)

Caribbean studies in the U.K.:

London Metropolitan University - Caribbean Studies course

University of Stirling, Centre of Commonwealth Studies
'The Centre of Commonwealth Studies exists to provide a focus for postgraduate and undergraduate work relating to Commonwealth countries, particularly in the fields of African history, African and Caribbean culture and writing, African and Caribbean religion, Australian writing and painting, the literature of India and of New Zealand, and postcolonial critical theory.'

University of Warwick Centre for Caribbean Studies

Caribbean studies in Canada:

York University - CERLAC, the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean

Caribbean studies in the U.S.:

Dartmouth College - Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies

Florida International University - Latin American and Caribbean Center

Indiana University - The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Michigan State University - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

New York University (NYU) - Africana Studies Program

New York University (NYU)- Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

SSRC (Social Science Research Council) Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
(New York, NY) - 'The SSRC is an independent, nonprofit organization. Based in New York City, it seeks to advance social science throughout the world, and supports research, education and scholarly exchange on every continent.'

Tulane University - Stone Center for Latin American Studies

University of Pittsburgh - Center for Latin American Studies

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 

 

 

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