Staff Profiles
Centre of Canadian Studies
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Alan Barnard | Professor Emeritus; Honorary Professorial Fellow; formerly Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa | Southern Africa,Hunter gatherers,Human origins,Origins of language,Archaeology and anthropology,History of anthropology | A.Barnard@ed.ac.uk |
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John Harries | Senior Teaching Fellow and Deputy Director of the Undergraduate School (Progression and Student Experience) | time and temporality,indigeneity and identity (particularly in postcolonial settler societies),matter and materiality,the senses and the environment,Canada,Newfoundland,the Beothuk,social memory,contentious heritage,Human-animal relationships,cats | 5.25 Chrystal Macmillan Building +44 (0)131 651 3065 j.harries@ed.ac.uk |
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Jonathan Hearn | Head of Subject; Professor of Political and Historical Sociology | Theories of social power,the origins and nature of liberal society,social change and evolution,Nationalism and National Identity,The Sociology of Scotland,sociology of competition,Classical sociology and Scottish Enlightenment thought | Room 6.05 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4242 J.Hearn@ed.ac.uk |
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Ailsa Henderson | Professor of Political Science | political behaviour,political culture,Regionalism,voting and elections,comparative territorial politics,UK,Scotland,Quebec-Scotland comparisons,European values,Public opinion and Political attitudes | 3.09 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 651 1618 ailsa.henderson@ed.ac.uk |
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James Kennedy | Director, Centre of Canadian Studies; Senior Lecturer in Sociology | Comparative/Historical Sociology,Political Sociology,Nationalism and National Identity,Civil Society and Democratization,Liberalism,Scotland,Canada/Quebec | 6.28 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4250 J.Kennedy@ed.ac.uk |
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Niamh Moore | Senior Lecturer | Deputy Director of Research Ethics and Research Integrity in SSPS | Feminist theory,ethics and research practices,Feminist Research,Sustainability,women's movements,ecofeminism,archives,Research methodology,oral history,community-based participatory research,Queer Theory,interdisciplinary research,transdisciplinary research,narrative research | Room 3.09, 3F2 18 Buccleuch Place +44(0)131 6508260 Niamh.Moore@ed.ac.uk @rawfeminism |
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Ada Munns | Centre Secretary, Centre for South Asian Studies,Centre of Canadian Studies, SKAPE, Network Facilitator, Leverhulme Project | 1.14 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44(0)131 6504129 Ada.Munns@ed.ac.uk |
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Charles Raab | Professorial Fellow | 3.18 18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 4243 c.d.raab@ed.ac.uk |
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Wilfried Swenden | Senior Lecturer in Politics, Postgraduate Advisor (PIR PhD/MScR) | Federalism,intergovernmental relations,Governing in divided societies,Indian Politics,Territorial Politics,Multi-level governance,Comparative Politics | 3.05 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square +44 (0)131 650 4255 W.Swenden@ed.ac.uk |
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Sophia Woodman | Lecturer | Citizenship, human rights and social movements; contemporary China; law and society; regional autonomy frameworks; migration and translocality. | 3.09 18 Buccleuch Place 44 (0)131 651 4745 Sophia.Woodman@ed.ac.uk |