Murray Pittock is Scotland’s leading cultural historian. His many books include Scotland: The Global History (Yale University Press), Culloden, Enlightenment in a Smart City, The Myth of the Jacobite Clans, and Robert Burns in Global Culture. Since 2007, he has been Bradley Professor at the University of Glasgow and successively Dean, Vice-Principal, and Pro Vice Principal at the University. In 2026, he received the Lifetime Innovator Award in Arts and Humanities from the University of Glasgow and the Glasgow Medal from the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow for his work as a leading academic and public intellectual.