Sarah Janet Helen Leith

A cultural historian of modern Scotland and the wider world, my research lies at the intersection of politics and culture, with particular interests in environmental thought, Scottish identity and print culture from the eighteenth century onwards. My articles have been published within Northern Scotland and the Scottish Literary Review, and my first monograph is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.

From 2024 to 2025, I am co-investigator for a Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant project. Additionally, I am a member of the Steering Group of the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network.

I have been Communications Manager for the Institute of Scottish Historical Research since 2018. As Communications Officer for the School of History, I was the editor of the 2023 and 2024 editions of the School's alumni magazine, The St Andrews Historian.

Previously, I have been employed as a Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, working within its School of Critical Studies and its Centre for Robert Burns Studies.