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Professor
Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities
McNally North 225
P: 902-420-5757
E:  karly.kehoe@smu.ca

 

Karly Kehoe is a Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities. She explores settler colonialism and how religious minority migrants acquired and exercised colonial privilege in the north Atlantic world between c. 1750 and c. 1850. Underpinning this research is the pioneering work she has been doing since 2010 on the complex links between Catholic colonialism in the Caribbean and what would become Atlantic Canada. Her recent monograph, , was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

Kehoe has held research fellowships at Trinity College Dublin, Durham University, Middle Tennessee State University, Yale University, and the University of Guelph. She is the convenor of the Scottish Historical Review Trust and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She co-edits the Histories of the Scottish Atlantic book series with Edinburgh University Press and is the board chairperson and academic lead of the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies.

She is also an advocate of science diplomacy. She is a fellow of the International Science Council (ISC) and a member of its . Additionally, she serves on both the InterAcademy Partnership’s (IAP) Policy Advice Development Committee and the Science in Exile steering committee (a partnership of UNESCO-TWAS, ISC, and IAP). She was president of the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2020-22) and is the founder and lead of the RSC’s . This program emerged out of her extensive work to support academic researchers whose work has been disrupted by war, conflict, and threats of violence. In addition to ARDAA, she co-founded the (Young Academy of Scotland) and the (Global Young Academy).

Publications (* = peer reviewed) 

Books – Monographs                                                                                                    

*Kehoe, S. Karly, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850, University of Toronto Press (2022), 292 pp.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Manchester University Press (2010), 197 pp.

Books – edited/co-authored                                                                                         

*Kehoe, S. Karly, Annie Tindley, and Chris Dalglish, eds., The Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities, Edinburgh University Press (2023), 199 pp.

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Michael E. Vance, eds., Reappraisals of British Colonization in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930, Edinburgh University Press (2020), 208 pp.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, and Eva Alisic, eds., Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration, De Gruyter Publishers (2019), 237 pp.

*Breitenbach, Esther, Linda Fleming, S. Karly Kehoe, and Lesley Orr, eds., Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914, Edinburgh University Press (2013), 340 pp.

-Peters, Brian, Pamela Forsyth-Hudson, and Karly Kehoe. The New Learning Guide: Education Opportunities, Alternatives, and Enhancements for Maritime Communities. Margaree Education Coalition (2000), 151 pp.

Journal Articles

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Ciaran O’Neill, “‘A colony to themselves’: Scottish Highland Settler Colonialism in British North America, 1770-1803”, Journal of British Studies (2024): 1–18.

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Ciaran O’Neill, “Was there a Catholic Atlantic?”, Journal of Victorian Culture. 28:4 (2023): 582-9.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Jacobites, Jamaica, and the Establishment of a Highland Catholic Community in the Canadian Maritimes”, Scottish Historical Review. 100:2 (2021): 199-217.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Colonial Collaborators: Britain and the Catholic Church in Trinidad, c. 1820-1840”, Slavery & Abolition. 40:1 (2018): 130-46.

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Dalglish, Chris, “History, Heritage and Sustainable Development: A Position Statement on the Scottish Highlands”, Northern Scotland. 9 (2018): 1-16.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Catholic Relief and the Political Awakening of Irish Catholics in Nova Scotia, 1780-1830”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 46:1 (2018): 1-20.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “From the Caribbean to the Scottish Highlands: Charitable Enterprise in the Age of Improvement, c.1750 to c.1820”, Rural History. 27:1 (2016): 37-59.

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Darren Tierney, “‘Like a Kind Mother’: Imperial Concerns and Britain’s Changing Perception of Rome, 1783-1815”, Historical Studies Occasional Paper. 83 (2015): 11-31.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Accessing Empire: Irish Surgeons and the Royal Navy, 1850-1880”, Social History of Medicine. 26:2 (2013): 204-224.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Unionism, Nationalism and the Scottish Catholic Periphery”, Britain and the World. 4:1 (2011): 65-83.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “The Venerable Margaret Sinclair: Edinburgh’s Twentieth-Century Factory Girl”, Feminist Theology. 16 (2008): 169-183.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Nursing the Mission: The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and the Sisters of Mercy in Glasgow, 1847-1860”, Innes Review. 56 (2005): 46-60.

Book Chapters (selected)

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Tripped Up by Tartan: Settler Colonialism and the Highland Scots on Cape Breton Island,” The Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World: Social Networks and Identities. Kehoe, S. Karly, Annie Tindley, and Chris Dalglish, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), pp. 31-43.

*Kehoe, S. Karly and Michael E. Vance, “Colonial Legacies,” Reappraisals of British Colonization in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1900, S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2020): 3-10.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Catholic Highland Scots and the Colonization of Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, 1772-1830,” Reappraisals of British Colonization in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1900, S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2020): 77-92.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, and Eva Alisic, “Responsibility for Integration,” Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration, S. Karly Kehoe, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, and Eva Alisic, eds. (De Gruyter Publishers, 2019): 1-6.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Historical Perspectives on Migrant Integration in Atlantic Canada, 1812-1825,” Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration, S. Karly Kehoe, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, and Eva Alisic, eds. (De Gruyter Publishers, 2019): 65-80.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Women Religious and the Development of Scottish Education,” A History of Catholic Schools and Education in Scotland: New Perspectives, Stephen McKinney and Raymond McCluskey, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 61-80.

-Kehoe, S. Karly, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery, “Colonialism and the Caribbean: Wealth, Power and the British Imperial State,” Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe. Uta Fenske, Daniel Groth, Klaus-Michael Guse and Bärbel P. Kuhn, eds. (Peter Lang, 2015): 53-60.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Border Crossings: Being Irish in Nineteenth-Century Scotland and Canada,” Irish Women in the Diaspora: Theories, Concepts and New Perspectives, Mary Hickman and Jim MacPherson, eds. (Manchester University Press, 2014): 152-67.

-Kehoe, S. Karly, “Crime and Punishment, Immorality and Reform,” Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914, Esther Breitenbach, Linda Fleming, S. Karly Kehoe and Lesley Orr, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2013): 160-201.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Catholic identity in the Diaspora: Nineteenth Century Ontario,” Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora. Tanja Bueltmann, Andrew Hinson and Graeme Morton, eds. (Stewart Publishing, 2009): 83-100.

*Kehoe, S. Karly, “Irish Migrants and the Recruitment of Catholic Sisters to Glasgow, 1847-1878,” Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century. Frank Ferguson and James McConnell, eds. (Four Courts, 2009): 35-47.

Grants and Awards (last 10 years)

*SSHRC/UKRI, Knowledge Synthesis Grant – Stream 2, “One People, Two Islands: The entanglement of the islands of Eigg, Scotland, and Cape Breton Nova Scotia, 1790-1830” (co-principal investigator with Andrew Nicoll, Historic Environment Scotland (2024)

*SSHRC, Partnership Grant – Phase 1, “Equitable opportunities for research and tertiary education for people with lived experience of displacement” (co-investigator) (2024)

*International Science Council, elected as fellow (2023)

-Bozenna Pasik-Duncan Humanitarian Mentorship Award, IEEE Returning Mother’s Conference, India (2023)

*Awards to Scholarly Publication Program, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780–1850, author (2021)

*SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, A Catholic Atlantic? Minority Agency in the British World, 1763-1860, principal investigator (2019-2021)

-Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin (2022)

-Holland Visiting Fellowship, Durham University Residential Library (2019)

-Strickland Visiting Scholar, Middle Tennessee State University (2019)

-CASE, Community Engaged Research Assistance Program, SMU Junior Research Leadership Program, principal investigator (2018)

*Royal Society of Canada’s Colleges and New scholars, Artists, and Scientists, selected as member (2017-2025)

*Global Young Academy, Migration and Human Rights Research Project Funding, co-principal investigator with Dr Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Dr Eva Alisic and Dr Liav Orgad (2017)

*Fritz Thyssen Siftung, Global Individual Responsibility: The Role of the Citizen in Refugee Integration, co-applicant with Dr Jan-Christoph Heilinger and Dr Eva Alisic (2017)

*SSHRC, Canada Research Chairs, Tier II, (Jan. 2016-Dec. 2020; renewed Jan. 2021-Dec. 2025)

-Saint Mary’s University, Research Award for the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities (2016-2021)

*Global Young Academy, appointed to the Global Young Academy (2015-2020) 

*Royal Society of Edinburgh, Research Network Grant for Landscapes and Lifescapes: linking past rural development in the Scottish Highlands to its global context and its present-day legacies, co-principal investigator (2015) 

*European Union Lifelong Learning Program Grant for Colonization and Decolonization in National History, Cultures and Memory Politics in European Perspective project, co-investigator (principal investigator, Professor Barbel Kuhn, University of Siegen, Germany) (2013-15) 

*Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Collaborative Studentship for Globalizing Communities: The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Socio-Economic Development of Northern Scotland, principal investigator (collaborative partner with the National Library of Scotland) (2013-16) 

*SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for Irish-Catholic Discourse and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Halifax: the exemplary case of Holy Cross Cemetery project, co-investigator (principal investigator – Professor Mark McGowan, University of Toronto) (2013-15) 

*Royal Society of Edinburgh, appointed to the Young Academy of Scotland (2013-2018) 

*Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Award for the ‘Our Worthy Countrymen’?: Highland Development and the West Indies, 1750-1850 project (2013)