School of Social and Political Science

Stephanie Shakay Tierney

PhD Candidate

Stephanie Shakay is standing against a brick wall, she is wearing a black raincoat and a black hood, she has dark brown hair with a fringe
s.s.tierney@sms.ed.ac.uk
https://twitter.com/@littletiern/
Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Research interests

Cultural Heritage Identities & Inequalities Kinship, bodies and relatedness

Scottish witchcraft trials, memory politics and memorialisation, motives and motivations, identity, activist anthropology, gender, storytelling, arts-informed methods

Background

  
2021- Present
PhD Social Anthropology

University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh, Scotland
Research foci: Scottish witchcraft trials, memory politics and memorialisation, motives and motivations, identity, activist anthropology, gender, storytelling, arts-informed methods

Supervisors: Dr Maya Mayblin and Dr John Harries

2019-2020
MSc Museum Studies

University of Glasgow / Glasgow, Scotland
Research foci: representations of witches and witchcraft in Scottish cultural heritage, memorials, museums

Supervisors: Dr Adele Redhead

2001-2006
BA Communications, Public Relations, Mediation

University of Colorado Denver / Denver, Colorado, USA

Research foci: communications and diversity, feminist methods of communication, public relations, mediation and persuasion 

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