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Shepperson Memorial

Academic Career.
In 1948 George Shepperson was appointed Lecturer in Imperial and American History
at Edinburgh University.
After twelve years, he achieved the rank of Senior Lecturer. The following year, he
was appointed Reader in Imperial and American History and in 1963 appointed
William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History.
He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1974 - 1977. Shepperson was
instrumental in the founding of two centres: the Centre of African Studies in 1964 and
the Centre of Canadian Studies in 1979. He was Convener for the former twice (1964
– 1966 and 1973 – 74) and the latter once (1979 – 1982).

Scholarly and academic activities.
During Edinburgh University Quatercentenary celebrations in 1983, George
Shepperson delivered three public lectures:
‘The University and Canada’, 15 June 1983.
‘Theology and Politics: John Witherspoon’, New College, 5 July 1983. ‘Edinburgh' s
Students at Home and Overseas’, 6 July 1983, George Square Theatre, Edinburgh.
George Shepperson 'Degree Award Oration', The Society of Malawi Journal, 2003,
56, 1.

Other Universities.
1959 (spring semester): Visiting Professor of History at the University of Chicago and
Roosevelt University, Chicago.
1962 (first term): Visiting teacher of history, Makerere College, Kampala, Uganda
1968 - 69: Canada Council Visiting Professor of Commonwealth History, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1979 (Autumn): Visiting Professor in African Studies, Calgary University, Alberta,
Canada.

Lectures at a variety of other American, Canadian, African and European
Universities and Colleges, e.g.:
USA: University of California (Los Angeles and Berkeley) , University of New
Mexico, University of Atlanta (Spelman College) , Brandeis University, University of
Virginia, Old Dominion University (Virginia) , Bradley University, Coe and Grinnell
Colleges (Iowa) , Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) , Northwestern University,
University of Illinois Chicago Circle, Harvard University, Yale University, Rhode
Island College, Brown University (Providence, R. I.), University of Rhode Island,
New York University (New Paltz) , Columbia University, et cetera.
Canada: St. Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.), University of British Columbia,
Simon Fraser University, Guelph University, University of Toronto, University of
Alberta, University of Saskatchewan, Sir George Williams (now Concordia
University, Montreal)
Africa: University of Malawi, Zambia University, University of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland (now University of Zimbabwe), University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania),
University of Khartoum (Sudan), Ibadan University (Nigeria), University of Cape
Town, University of Natal (Durban and Pietermaritzburg), Rhodes University
(Grahamstown and East London), Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg),
University of Lesotho, University College of Botswana, University College of
Swaziland, et cetera.
Europe. Various British universities and colleges, inter alia: Aberdeen, Stirling,
Glasgow, Durham, Newcastle, Lancaster, Cambridge (University and Homerton
College), Oxford, London, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton, Manchester,
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