Carl Griffin

Professor Carl Griffin is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), affiliated with the Centre for History. A historical geographer by training and historian by inclination, his work centers on rural pasts, particularly the social, political, and environmental impacts of rapid capitalist changes in the 18th and early 19th-century British countryside. He is renowned for his research on popular protest, crime, and human-animal/plant relations, as well as forest history and political economy.

His current projects include a history of rural squatting challenging enclosure narratives and an exploration of rural workers' environmental interactions, specifically laboring relations with soil. Collaborating with Dr. Iain Robertson, he co-leads studies on vernacular environmental ethics, criminality cultures, and the 'afterlives of protest.' Since 2016, he has actively engaged with UHI through seminars, guest lectures, and contributions to Dr. Robertson's modules.

Notable collaborative publications include Remembering Protest in Britain Since 1500: Memory, Materiality and the Landscape (2018), Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance (2019), and The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750–c. 1850 (2020).