Centre of Canadian Studies

Other Schools

Edinburgh Law School

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Sharon Cowan	Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies; Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange	Criminal law, asylum law, and law, gender and sexuality	s.cowan@ed.ac.uk
Dr Robert Lane	Senior Lecturer in EC Law; Director of Graduate LLB Programme	Canadian constitutional law and the Canadian federal system	robert.lane@ed.ac.uk
Prof Stephen Tierney	Professor of Constitutional Theory	Constitutional law and national pluralism; Comparative constitutional law; Legal accommodation of national identity	s.tierney@ed.ac.uk

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Prof Rob Dunbar	Chair of Celtic Languages, Literature, History and Antiquities	Gaelic Language, Literature and Culture in Canada: Canadian Language Law and Policy; Canadian Multicultural Policy	Rob.Dunbar@ed.ac.uk
Dr John Shaw	Honorary Fellow, Celtic and Scottish Studies	Gaelic ethnology in Nova Scotia	J.W.Shaw@ed.ac.uk
Dr Michelle Keown	English Literature	Settler subjectivities in Canadian literature; postcolonial literature and theory	Michelle.Keown@ed.ac.uk
Dr Lee Spinks	English Literature	Michael Ondaatje Postcolonial writing	Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Taylor	English Literature	Transatlantic Literature	Andrew.Taylor@ed.ac.uk

School of History

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Adam Budd	History	Canadian anglophone literature (particularly Montreal poets and novelists, mid 20th-c) Transatlantic literary and cultural relations (18th century) Canadian intellectual history (particularly Northrop Frye)	adam.budd@ed.ac.uk
Prof Robert Morris	Prof Emeritus, Economic and Social History	Urban history of Montreal	rjmorris@ed.ac.uk
Prof Richard Rodger	Economic and Social History	Urban history, Environment and Planning: Montreal, Toronto and prairie cities	Richard.Rodger@ed.ac.uk

School of Architecture and Landscape

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Ella Chmielewska	Cultural Studies	Visual culture; Urban graffiti in Montreal; Practices of commemoration and display	Ella.Chmielewska@ed.ac.uk

School of Design

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Juliette Macdonald	Head of School of Design	Craft in Canada and Scotland	juliette.macdonald@ed.ac.uk
Mr Arno Verhoeven	Lecturer, School of Design	Craft in Canada and Scotland	a.verhoeven@ed.ac.uk

Moray House School of Education

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Prof Grant Jarvie	Chair of Sport - Head of Academy of Sport	Sports Policy, Canadian Sport, Political Economy, Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Sport and International Development, Social Inequality, North American Highland Games	grant.jarvie@ed.ac.uk

School of GeoSciences

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Jan Penrose	Human Geogrpahy	Nationalism and identity politics; Popular festivals and identity construction	Dr.J.Penrose@ed.ac.uk
Prof Charles W. J. Withers	Ogilvie Chair of Geography	History of Canadian exploration and 'high latitude' travel narratives; science in Canada	C.W.J.Withers@ed.ac.uk

University of Edinburgh Business School

Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
Dr Geoff Gregson	Entrepreneurship and Innovation	Technology transfer; Academic entrepreneurship; National systems of innovation; Research commercialisation	Geoff.Gregson@ed.ac.uk
Dr Ben Spigel	Chancellor's Fellow, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group	Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development in Canadian Cities	Ben.Spigel@ed.ac.uk