School of Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr Lizanne Henderson

Senior Lecturer in History (Interdisciplinary Studies)

telephone: 01387702097
email: Lizanne.Henderson@glasgow.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5784-9900

Biography

Born in Toronto, Canada, I have a B.A. Double Honours in History and Fine Art from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and an M.A. in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s. I completed a PhD in History and Scottish Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

In 2010 I volunteered with Frontier/Touch Africa on a wildlife and community outreach programme in the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Gede, Kenya.

I have lectured on cultural history, folklore and critical animal studies in Europe, North America, the Arctic, and Australia. I have been an invited speaker and guide on expedition ships around the British Isles, Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Norway and Spitsbergen, and have appeared on TV and Radio discussing various topics such as the Scottish witch-hunts and the British slave trade.

Editorial Posts

2013 to present, Editor of international peer-reviewed journal Review of Scottish Culture
2000-2012, Editorial Assistant, international peer-reviewed journal Folklore

Research interests

Cultural History
Folk Belief, Popular Culture, and the Scottish Witch-Hunts (wider British, European, American and African witch-hunting experience)
Scottish connections to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition
Human-Animal studies
Scottish Exploration (Arctic, polar, Africa)
Scottish Emigration in 18th and 19th centuries (North America, Africa and the Caribbean)

Current projects include:

(Super)natural Animals in the Age of the Stewarts, an investigation into early modern attitudes towards animals and the role of animals in the Scottish witch trials and folk belief.

Picturing Polar Bears, a study into the cultural history, artistic depictions and semiotic uses of the polar bear in environmental education.

Grants

Awards

2016 Katharine Briggs Book Award for Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment
2014 Visiting International Scholar, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
2001 Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Folklore Prize for Scottish Fairy Belief: A History

Grants and Funding

2014 Visiting International Scholar. Five weeks at School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne
2011 Crichton Research Fund, SIEF conference, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, Robert Burns conference, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA
2009 Crichton Research Fund, Robert Burns conference, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA
2008 Erasmus Teacher Mobility Grant, two-weeks at Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
2006-08 CREDD (Centre for Research into Regional Development) Joint award £500,000
2007 The Strathmartine Trust
2007 Crichton Research Fund, Folklore Society conference, University of Sheffield
2001 SCRAN – Associate Project Coordinator - Joint award £25,000 for production of multimedia CD-ROM Scottish Ballads and contributing to SCRAN online database

Supervision

Research students

PhD

• Thesis awarded: Theological Consciousness and Cultural Identity within the Funerary Art of Skelmorlie Aisle

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Level 1 Scotland’s Millennium (Main Campus)
• Level 1 Discovering Scotland's Past
• Level 2 Scotland and the World: Emigration, Slavery and Emancipation, Exploration

Postgraduate

• Sustainable Heritage Management
• A Cultural History of Animals

Additional information

Participation in University Research Centres

Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies
Glasgow Centre for International Development

Scholarly Activities

Internationally rated conference papers

2014 May 8-10 Keynote speaker at For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation held at Federation University Australia Ballarat Campus and at Art Gallery of Ballarat, Australia, and repeated as a Public Lecture at University of Melbourne. Paper presented, “‘A country of enchantments’: Scottish Observations of Colonial Australia”.
2012 May 17-21 Invited speaker Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication, international conference of ISFNR Belief Narrative Network and Dept of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary. Paper presented, “Fairies and the Land of the Dead: Robert Kirk’s Lychnobious People”.
2011 April 17-21 SIEF (Societe Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore) People Make Places – Ways of Feeling the World. 10th International SIEF conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Paper presented, “Cultural Constructs and Folklore of Bears”.
2009 May 28-30 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC) Geneva, Switzerland. Paper presented, “Rise of the Demonic: Changing Ideas about Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland”.
2009 April 2-4 Robert Burns: Contemporaries, Contexts & Cultural Forms University of South Carolina, USA. Paper presented, “Robert Burns and Slavery: The Dumfries and Galloway Context”.
2001 August 25 ‘Celtic Scotland’ St. Andrews Society of California, Pasadena, California, USA. Invited Speaker. Papers presented, “Darkness Visible: Witch Belief and Second Sight” and “Fairy Belief”.
2000 Aug 26 Scots-Australian Studies Association (Victoria) Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia. Paper presented, “Scottish Fairy Belief”.
2000 Aug 8 Scottish-Australian Heritage Council Scottish Week Sydney, Australia. Invited Speaker. Paper presented, “Scotland’s Fairy Belief and Ballad Traditions”.
1998 Nov 11 Beggars Descriptions: Destitution and Literary Genres International Literary Conference University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Paper presented, “‘A stout carline who begged for a drink’: The Queen of Elfland as Beggar”.

International guest lectures

2014 9 May Elizabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre, University of Melbourne, Australia. Paper presented, “‘A country of enchantments’: Scottish Observations of Colonial Australia”.
June 3 School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. Paper presented, “ Incidents of Great Importance’: Animal Observation on Nineteenth Century North Polar Explorations”.
June 4 Early Modern Circle Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Australia. Paper presented, “Fairies, Angels and the Land of the Dead: Robert Kirk’s Lychnobious People”.
2009 8 April ‘Table of Nations: Scotland’ McCormick Freedom Museum, in partnership with the Illinois St Andrew Society, Chicago, USA. Featured speaker in panel discussion on Scottish historical and political topics.
2008 June 25 History House Seminar Series, Scottish-Australian Heritage Council Sydney, Australia. Paper presented, “The Great Scottish Witch-Hunt”.
2005 April Participant in various events for Tartan Day in New York city. Followed by a Lecture tour, paper presented ‘Scottish Folklore in America”:
April 5 Dept of History, University of Wisconsin Madison
April 6 Celtic Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
April 7 Illinois St Andrews Society of Chicago, Chicago.
2003 Sept. University of Simon Fraser, Burnaby, British Columbia. Centre for Scottish Studies Seminar Series. Paper presented, “Witches, Fairies and Kelpies: The Supernatural in Scottish History”.
1995-2018 Invited Lecturer in Cultural History, Folklore and Animal Studies aboard Expedition ships (Adventure Canada; Oceanwide; Quark, National Trust for Scotland) to Britain and Ireland, Spitsbergen, Norway, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and Canadian Arctic.

Publications

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Number of items: 29.

2019

Henderson, L. (2019) Folklore. In: Cowan, E. J. and Veitch, K. (eds.) Dumfries and Galloway: People and Place, c.1700-1914. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 347-392. ISBN 9781910900123

Henderson, L. (2019) Fairies, angels and the land of the dead: Robert Kirk’s lychnobious people. In: Pócs, É. (ed.) Body, Soul, Spirits and Supernatural Communication. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 238-257. ISBN 9781527522312

2018

Henderson, L. (2018) About a bear: wildlife tourism in the Polar North. Geographer: The Newsletter of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Winter, p. 30.

2017

Henderson, L. (2017) Witch belief in Scottish coastal communities. In: Worthington, D. (ed.) The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, pp. 233-249. ISBN 9783319640891 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64090-7_14)

2016

Henderson, L. (2016) The (super)natural worlds of Robert Kirk: fairies, beasts, landscapes and lychnobious liminalities. Bottle Imp(20),

Henderson, L. (2016) Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740. Series: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic. Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills. ISBN 9780230294387 (doi:10.1057/9781137313249)

Henderson, L. (2016) "Grandmother" (poem). In: Three Drops from a Cauldron: Samhain 2016. Three Drops Press: Sheffield, p. 25. ISBN 9781326826093

2015

Henderson, L. (2015) Tündérek, angyalok és a holtak földje: Robert Kirk Lychnobious People címú múve. In: Pócs, É. (ed.) Test, Lélek, Szellemek és Természetfeletti Kommunikáció, Szerkesztette. Series: Tanulmányok a transzcendensrol (8). Balassi Kiadó: Budapest, pp. 368-385. ISBN 9789635069613

Henderson, L. (2015) 'A country of enchantments': Thomas Watling's observations of Australia's natural world. In: Cahir, F., Beggs-Sunter, A. and Inglis, A. (eds.) Scots under the southern cross: Scottish impressions of colonial Australia. Ballarat Heritage Services: Ballarat, Australia, pp. 108-118. ISBN 9781876478209

2014

Cowan, E. and Henderson, L. (2014) Scots in Australia: the gaze from Auld Scotia. In: For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation. Art Gallery of Ballarat: Ballarat, Australia, pp. 18-27.

Henderson, L. (2014) 'Incidents of great importance': animal observation on nineteenth-century north polar explorations. New Orkney Antiquarian Journal. Special Edition: John Rae 200 Conference Proceedings., 7, pp. 20-33.

2013

Henderson, L. (2013) Folk belief and Scottish traditional literatures. In: Dunnigan, S. and Gilbert, S. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 26-34. ISBN 9780748645404

2012

Henderson, L. (2012) The witches of Bute. In: Ritchie, A. (ed.) Historic Bute: Land and People. Scottish Society for Northern Studies: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 151-161. ISBN 9780953522644

2011

Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, L. (Eds.) (2011) A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600. Series: A history of everyday life in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748621569

Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, L. (2011) Everyday life in medieval Scotland. In: Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, L. (eds.) A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600. Series: A history of everyday life in Scotland (1). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9780748621569

Henderson, L. (2011) 'Detestable slaves of the Devil': changing attitudes to witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. In: Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, L. (eds.) A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600. Vol. 1. Series: A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748621569

2009

Henderson, L. (Ed.) (2009) Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. John Donald: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781906566029

Henderson, L. (2009) Introduction. In: Henderson, L. (ed.) Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 141-166. ISBN 9781906566029

Henderson, L. (2009) Studying the supernatural history of Scotland. In: Henderson, L. (ed.) Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. John Donald: Edinburgh, xiii-xxiv. ISBN 9781906566029

Henderson, L. (2009) Witch, fairy and folktale narratives in the trial of Bessie Dunlop. In: Henderson, L. (ed.) Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 141-166. ISBN 9781906566029

2008

Henderson, L. (2008) Scotland and the slave trade: some South West connections. Scottish Local History, 72, pp. 47-53.

Henderson, L. (2008) Witch-hunting and witch belief in the Gàidhealtachd. In: Goodare, J., Martin, L. and Miller, J. (eds.) Witchcraft and Belief in Early Modern Scotland. Series: Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95-118. ISBN 9780230507883

2007

Henderson, L. (2007) Charmers, spells and holy wells: the repackaging of belief. Review of Scottish Culture, 19, pp. 10-26.

2006

Henderson, L. (2006) The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland. Scottish Historical Review, 85(1), pp. 52-74. (doi:10.3366/shr.2006.0015)

2003

Henderson, L. (2003) The natural and supernatural worlds of Hugh Miller. In: Borley, L. (ed.) Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller: Scotland in the Early 19th Century: Ethnography and Folklore, Geology and Natural History, Church and Society. Cromarty Arts Trust / Elphinstone Institute of the University of Aberdeen, pp. 89-98. ISBN 9780906265338

2002

Henderson, L. and Cowan, E.J. (2002) The last of the witches? The survival of Scottish witch belief. In: Goodare, J. (ed.) The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK, pp. 198-217. ISBN 9780719060236

2001

Henderson, L. and Cowan, E. J. (2001) Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. Tuckwell Press: East Linton. ISBN 1862321906

2000

Henderson, L. (2000) The road to Elfland: fairy belief in the child ballads. In: Cowan, E.J. (ed.) The Ballad in Scottish History. Tuckwell Press: East Linton, UK, pp. 54-72. ISBN 9781862320086

1993

Henderson, L. (1993) The Duncan Family papers: the peregrinations of a remarkable woman. Collection Update (University of Guelph Library), 1993(June),

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