Dr Daniel Scroop
- Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Citizenship (History)
telephone:
01413303695
email:
Daniel.Scroop@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 405, 1 University Gardens, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QH
Research interests
Office hours: Mondays 4-5pm, Tuesdays 10-11am (Room 401 in 10 University Gardens)
I joined the History subject area in 2013. I studied Modern History at St. Anne's College, Oxford, where I gained my BA (1995) and D.Phil. (2001), and took an MA in Social History at the University of Lancaster (1996). Before moving to Glasgow, I held permanent lectureships at the University of Sheffield (2007-13) and the University of Liverpool (2003-7) and enjoyed shorter spells at the University of Bangor (2002-3) and the University of Cambridge (2001-2).
My main field is the history of the United States since 1877. I am interested in the character and ideological contours of US politics and have explored this extensively in my work on the New Deal, populism, progressivism, and the politics of consumption. In recent work I have branched out in the directions of transnational and comparative history. For example, a new essay on transnational populism -- featuring the travels of William Jennings Bryan and Robert M. La Follette Sr. -- will appear in 'Transatlantic Social Politics', a book of essays I have edited with my former Sheffield colleague Andrew Heath. It will be published in December 2014 as part of Palgrave USA's new book series, Studies in Democratic Culture, which I co-edit. My major current project is a book on 'the politics of scale' in US history. This is a study of how American politics adapted to the scale and complexity of modern life across the twentieth century.
Grants
- 2011 AHRC Research Fellowship (Feb-Nov 2012) 'Small Dealers and Worthy Men: The Politics of Scale from Bryan to Nader' £34,000
- 2011 Santander Research Mobility Award, 'Transatlantic Social Politics' £840
- 2010 British Academy Small Research Grant, 'Small Dealers and Worthy Men: The Politics of Scale from Bryan to Nader' £4115
- 2010 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts Research and Innovation Award, 'The Politics of Scale in American History' £1400
- 2010 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts HEIF Award, 'Anglo-American Democratic Culture' £2721
- 2009 University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts Research and Innovation Award, Anglo-American Democratic Culture Since 1600 £1700
- 2009 Constance M. Rourke Prize (American Studies Association)
- 2009 Arthur Miller Centre Prize (British Association for American Studies)
- 2006 Herbert Hoover Presidential Library research grant
- 2004 Rivkin Research Fellowship, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
- 2002 Moody Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
Supervision
- Eleanor Capper, 'Caroline Ware and the politics of women and consumerism in the United States, 1932-1968', University of Liverpool, PhD 2009
- Thomas Keep, 'Harcourt A. Morgan's Common Mooring', University of Sheffield, PhD 2014
- Chris Olewicz, ‘Constructing Leviathan: Studies on the Left and the Rise of Corporate Liberalism 1959-1979', University of Sheffield (in progress)
Currently supervising
- Rebecca Dunbar, 'American Women's Fiction of the 1930s' (AHRC Block Grant, starting Sept. 2014)
- Banks, Susie
Millennial Mythologies: American Memory, Imagination, and Cr - Moore, Casey
Archiving oral histories in the wake of 21st century mass shootings
Teaching
Pre-honours courses
- Society, Culture and Politics in North America
Honours courses
- People of Plenty: The Politics of Consumption in Modern America Age of the New Deal: The United States in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Special Subject)
Postgraduate courses
- American Studies Core Course A
- Public Humanities
Additional information
- Co-founder and Treasurer (2007-14) of Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS): Series editor for Studies in Democratic Culture, Palgrave USA