Current Students
Masters Students:
Wade Cormack is an incoming MA student to the University of Guelph. He enters this program after completing a Bachelor of Arts and Science from the University of Guelph. His main areas of interest are: the Scottish tourism industry, the Scottish Diaspora and the re-invention of Scottish culture abroad. As an MA student he will be researching the impact of the Scottish tourism industry on Highland identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteen century. This will be done by focusing on specific sites where a Jacobite presence was historically found.
Megan Webber is an MA student in her second year. Under the supervision of Dr. Donna Andrew, she is currently researching subscription charities for the relief of the poor established during the "long eighteenth century" (c.1688-1832). Although much of her research focuses upon England, she is also interested in comparable subscription charities in Scotland, most notably the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Highlands and Islands (SSPCK) and the ways in which this charity's officials represented national identity and gender.
Kate Zubczyk is a new M.A. student studying Norse cultural influence in medieval Shetland and Orkney under Dr. Ewan. She completed her B.A. at Trent University in 2010 and spent a year working as the Programs Coordinator at the Orillia Museum of Art & History before arriving in Guelph. She also has a strong interest in historical linguistics and would like to explore ways to include this in her work.
Doctoral Students:
Jodi Campbell is a fifth-year doctoral candidate. After receiving her MA in 18th century British History from the University of Delaware, she came to Guelph to continue her work in Scottish religious history. Her dissertation examines Episcopalians’ loss of power after the Revolution of 1688 and their struggle to gain toleration until 1720. This is her third year as assistant editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies, after previously serving as the Book Reviews Editor (Modern). Jodi is also a co-editor of the latest volume of the Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond.
Sierra Dye is a second-year PhD student in History and Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. Sierra received her Master's degree in European History from Northern Arizona University, as well as her Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies. She also studied Anthropology at Colorado College for her undergraduate degree where she received the Marie Wormington Award for Outstanding Senior in Anthropology. Sierra's research interests include the witch trials in early modern Scotland, early modern and medieval gender studies, and speech and social control. This is her first year as Book Review Editor (Medieval) for the International Review of Scottish Studies.
Caitlin Holton is a first-year PhD student whose work focuses on masculinity and homosociality in medieval Scotland. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Calgary and her master’s at the University of Guelph. This is her first year as assistant editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies after serving as Book Review Editor (Medieval).
James Edward Jensen is a fourth-year PhD student focusing on community studies; specifically the establishment, development and maintenance of a predominantly Scottish community of neighborhoods near Elora and Fergus, Ontario. His study involves the utilization of Census data, land records, other public documents and personal correspondence.
Daniel MacLeod is a fourth-year PhD student whose research, investigating Early Modern Catholicism in Scotland, is supervised by Dr Elizabeth Ewan and Dr Peter Goddard. He is from Windsor, Ontario and completed a BA at the University of Windsor and an MA at the University of Guelph.
Katie McCullough is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. She is from Victoria, British Columbia and completed her undergraduate degree in history at the University of Victoria with a focus on British and British Colombia history. Katie’s PhD project explores the networks of support for Highlanders implemented by the Highland Society of London throughout the British Empire during the Highland Clearances. This is her second year as Book Review Editor (Modern) for the International Review of Scottish Studies.
Susan Murray came to Guelph from the University of Memphis with master’s degrees in History and English Lit. and is working on a PhD centred on late medieval and early modern women's networks in Fife. She came to Guelph with the very generous support of the Brock Doctoral Scholarship and has benefited from the many travel scholarships from the funds provided by so many groups that make up the Scottish Studies Foundation.
Heather Parker is a fifth-year doctoral candidate focusing on the formation of marriage in Scotland before 1600. Her dissertation will examine changes in marital law, religion and family strategy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She studied at Dalhousie University for her BA, and completed an MSc in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh. She was as an assistant editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies for the past two, after previously serving as a Book Review Editor (Medieval). Heather is also a co-editor of the latest volume of the Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond.