Staff Profiles

Centre of Canadian Studies

	Name	Title	Research Interests	Contact Information
	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
	John Harries	More-Than-Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience and Engagement (DSEE) for the School of Social and Political Science	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
	Jonathan Hearn	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
	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
	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
	Niamh Moore	Senior Lecturer	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
	Charles Raab	Professorial Fellow		3.18  18 Buccleuch Place +44 (0)131 650 4243 c.d.raab@ed.ac.uk
	Wilfried Swenden	Professor of South Asian and Comparative 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
	Sophia Woodman	Senior 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