Dr Mairi Cowan, Visiting Professor at UHI Centre for History

We are thrilled to welcome award-winning academic, Dr Mairi Cowan, as a Visiting Professor at UHI Centre for History

Dr Cowan is a Professor in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto. Her main areas of research are medieval and early modern Scotland, colonial North America (especially New France), and the teaching and learning of history. At the centre of Dr Cowan's teaching is work with students to discover, study, and engage with the human past in a historically responsible way.

Dr Cowan's historical research explores questions of religion, belonging, and society on both sides of the Atlantic. Her most recent book, 'The Possession of Barbe Hallay: Diabolical Arts and Daily Life in Early Canada' is a microhistory of bewitchment and dark arts in seventeenth-century New France.

We look forward to collaborating with Mairi, who will also be working closely with UHI's Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA).

Read more about Dr Cowan's research and teaching experience.