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
Dr Asanga Welikala	Lecturer in Public Law; Acting Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law	Plurinational constitutionalism and secession, Comparative federalism and devolution, Constitutional transitions and incrementialism, Dialogic constitutionalism in the Commonwealth, Public law of the United Kingdom and Scotland, Sri Lankan constitutional law and reform, Conservative and Burkean constitutional thought, Unitary states in plural polities, The constitutionalisation of socioeconomic rights	Asanga.Welikala@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	Senior Lecturer in English Literature	Settler subjectivities in Canadian literature; postcolonial literature and theory	Michelle.Keown@ed.ac.uk
Dr Lee Spinks	Senior Lecturer in English Literature	Michael Ondaatje Postcolonial writing	Lee.Spinks@ed.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Taylor	Senior Lecturer in 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
Dr Patrick Mannion	History	Research Fellow in Irish History	pmannio2@exseed.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