University of Glasgow

'Never was treated as a wife ought to be treated': Domestic Abuse against Women in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Academic History:

2017 - present: PhD History, University of Glasgow

2016 - 2017: MSc Gender History, University of Glasgow

2010 - 2014: MA History with First Class Honours, University of Glasgow

Supervisors:

Professor Lynn Abrams

Professor Alex Shepard

Research Interests:

History of women’s lives, gender relations and norms in the 19thC, domestic abuse against women, feminism, subjectivity and the self.

Previous Research Projects:

The Life and Death of Margaret Paterson: A Case Study of Sexual Violence, Embodiment and Subjectivity in Scotland, 1830 (MSc dissertation)

Scholarships:

2017: AHRC DTP Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities studentship

Awards:

2014 James Ewing Prize. Awarded to the best students in the honours cohort undertaking further study

Winner of Women's History Scotland Research Bursary 2018

Contact Details:

Address: 1 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Email: m.hamilton.3@research.gla.ac.uk

First published: 25 September 2017