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Professor 'Colin Craig Kidd' MA, D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S, F.S.A.Scot, FRSE^[1]
, is a historian specialising in American and Scottish history. He is the current Chair of Modern History and Deputy Head of Department, at the School of Historical Studies, University of Glasgow.^[2]
Professor Kidd is holder of the prestigious British Petroleum Prize Lectureship in the Humanities^[3] and currently teaches in the department's division of Scottish History. He has held this position since 2003,^[4] and previous to which, held the post of Reader in the same department. He is a fellow of All Souls College Oxford (one of the highest academic honours), and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books,^[5] where he commentates on topics such as current affairs, economics and politics, as well as reviewing literary works. Kidd says he chose to become a historian after being inspired by the 18th century literature of Sterne, and thus went on to gain his D.Phil from the University of Oxford.^[6]

His own literary works include: ''"Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830"'' (first published 1993); ''"British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800"'' (1999) and ''"The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000" ''(2006). All of these are published by Cambridge University Press. ^[7]

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1. Fellows and Wardens of All Souls College.
2. Glasgow University Staff Profiles.
3. Royal Society Prize Winners
4. Inductions to Senate, University of Glasgow
5. Colin Kidd Contributor Details
6. Interview with Colin Kidd
7. Cambridge University Press