Jackson Armstrong

Professor Jackson Armstrong is a historian of Scotland and England in the later Middle Ages, holding the Personal Chair in History at the University of Aberdeen since 2023. He serves as Head of the Department of History and is an Honorary Curatorial Fellow to University Museums. He joined Aberdeen in 2008 as a Lecturer, became Senior Lecturer in 2018, and assumed leadership roles including Deputy Head of School and School Director of Postgraduate Research. Armstrong holds a BA (Hons) from Queen's University (2001), an MPhil (2002), and a PhD (2008) from the University of Cambridge.

His research focuses on medieval legal frameworks, frontier societies, and urban governance, with a specialization in late medieval Aberdeen and the Scottish-English borderlands. Major projects include the Aberdeen Burgh Records Project and the collaborative game Strange Sickness, which explores medieval archives. He has secured significant grants, including a £284,273 AHRC-DFG grant for comparative legal studies and a £310,455 Leverhulme Trust grant for medieval legal analysis.

• Awards: Whitfield Prize (2021), BAFTA Scotland Nomination (2022), Best Lecturer Award (2017)
• Teaching: Leads courses on medieval and early modern history, emphasizing archival work and interdisciplinary collaboration with museums.

Armstrong’s work bridges academia and public engagement, including digital initiatives like Aberdeen Registers Online and community heritage projects such as the Bennachie Landscapes Study.