Martin Clagett

MARTIN CLAGETT has investigated the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution for over twenty years. His research has taken him to the archives of America, England and Scotland. In the course of his investigations he received a grant from the Earhart Foundation; he was a Visiting Scholar to the James Wilson Programme at St Andrews; named a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia; appointed as the Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the...See more

MARTIN CLAGETT has investigated the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution for over twenty years. His research has taken him to the archives of America, England and Scotland. In the course of his investigations he received a grant from the Earhart Foundation; he was a Visiting Scholar to the James Wilson Programme at St Andrews; named a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Virginia; appointed as the Gilder-Lehrman Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville, and served as the Omohundro Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary. Among his written works have been William Small and James Wilson: The Scottish Connection, a Study in the Influences of the Scottish Enlightenment (Charlottesville: Robert H. Smith Center for Jefferson Studies, 2007), The Portrait of William Small by Tilly Kettle. Privately Printed (Richmond: Dietz Press, 2007), Scientific Jefferson: Revealed (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009), Jefferson and Science, Dictionary of Virginia Biography (2013), James Wilson-His Scottish Background: Corrections and Additions, Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Spring 2012), and Thomas Clapp and the Scottish Enlightenment, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, Vol. 1 (New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2015). See less