Contributors
Lisa Baer-Tsarfati is a doctoral candidate in Scottish history and a former THINC Lab fellow at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Her research examines the intersections of intellectual history, digital humanities, gender, sociolinguistics, and control. As of March 2024, she is one of History’s most downloaded authors, and she has been featured on BBC Radio Scotland’s Time Travels podcast. Lisa is a moderator of the public history project, AskHistorians, where she focuses on public outreach, diversity, and accessibility, and she is a co-editor of the current volume.
Sierra Dye is Assistant Professor of Gender History at Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and former Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She is co-editor of the current volume and Volume 4 of the Guelph Series of Scottish Studies, Gender and Mobility in Scotland and Abroad with Elizabeth Ewan and Alice Glaze (Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies, 2018). Her publications include book chapters and articles on early modern gender, speech crime, witchcraft, and masculinity in Scotland. She is currently at work on her first monograph on intersections of speech, gender, and judicial evidence in Scotland’s early modern witch-hunts.
Kathryn Comper is a SSHRC-funded PhD student in History at the University of Edinburgh. Her thesis examines the exercise of kirk-session discipline in northeast Scotland between 1660 and 1712.
J. R. D. (Rob) Falconer is an Associate Professor in the Humanities Department at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the author of Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society (London, 2013), and the editor of The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674 (Scottish History Society, 2022). His publications include articles and book chapters focusing on early modern Scottish urban history, family history, the history of petty crime, and social networks. He is currently working on a monograph-length study of the seventeenth-century merchant-turned-laird, John Clerk of Penicuik (d. 1674).
Marjory Harper is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research focuses on British (particularly Scottish) emigration since 1750. Two of her monographs have won international prizes, and she has published around 100 articles and book chapters. Her most recent monograph, Testimonies of Transition (an oral history of twentieth-century Scottish emigration) was published in 2018, and a revised version was subsequently published as an audio book. In 2020 she won a Royal Historical Society prize for inspirational teaching and supervision.
Mariah Hudec is an Assistant Professor of English at Cape Breton University. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing on literary theory, history, folklore, and more, and focuses primarily on gender and the supernatural in nineteenth-century Scottish writing. She is co-editor of the current volume, and has previously served as an Assistant Editor for the International Review of Scottish Studies. She is currently revising her dissertation, Wise Women and Witches: Women and the Supernatural in Nineteenth-century Scottish Writing, into a monograph, as well as an article on the work of Mona Margaret Noel Paton.
Chelsea Larsson received her doctorate in Scottish History at the University of Guelph in 2021 where she studied the boundary between violence and violation as represented in justiciary court records with Elizabeth Ewan. Her doctoral research was funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and the generous support of the Scottish Studies Foundation. Following graduation, Chelsea has worked extensively as an editor, independent scholar, and academic consultant. She is currently completing an MA in Counselling Psychology.
Hector MacQueen is Emeritus Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland, Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland (1993, reprinted 2016) and (with Alan Borthwick) Law, Lordship and Tenure in Medieval Scotland (2022).
R. Andrew McDonald is Professor of History, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, and the author of many articles and books on medieval Manx and Hebridean history, including A Visitor’s Guide to the Medieval Kingdoms of Man and the Isles 1066-1275 (Douglas: Manx National Heritage, 2023), The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdom of Man and the Isles c. 1066–1275 (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2019) and Kings, Usurpers, and Concubines in the Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, 2019); co-editor with A. A. Somerville of The Viking Age: A Reader 3rd revised ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020). He completed his doctorate in the Department of History at the University of Guelph under the co-supervision of Elizabeth Ewan and Edward J. Cowan between 1989 and 1993, and was one of the first of Elizabeth’s many doctoral students.
Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture at the University of Dundee. He was previously the inaugural Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Unionist Nationalism (1999), Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832–1914 (2013), William Wallace: A National Tale (2014), Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora: Leaving the Cold Country (2021) and Scottish Loyalism in the British Atlantic World (2024).
Cynthia J. Neville is Professor Emeritus of History at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History and the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She has published extensively on the subject of Gaelic lordship, particularly the impact of Anglo-Norman and European ideas on Gaelic culture in later medieval Scotland. Her publications include numerous articles on Scottish medieval law, as well as internationally acclaimed and award-winning books, such as Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365 (Four Courts Press, 2005); Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and Regesta Regum Scottorum, Vol. IV, Pt 1: The Acts of Alexander III King of Scots 1249-1286 (edited with Grant G. Simpson, Edinburgh University Press, 2013). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Her current research is a book-length study of the ways in which late medieval and early modern Scottish jurists shaped understandings of the thirteenth-century treatise Leges Marchiarum (The Laws of the Marches).
