Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact Information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail: eanderso@uottawa.ca
Website Includes CV, syllabi, media interviews

Preferred Method of Contact:

E-mail

Research Information:

• Contemporary Roman Catholicism
• The papacy of Pope Francis I
• The history of Catholicism in Canada
• Indigenous peoples and the ongoing impact of residential schools
• First Nations' relationship with the Catholic Church (historically and contemporaneously)
• Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
• Missionaries and Indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century Canada
• Traditional Indigenous spiritualities
• Indigenous Catholicism
• Indigenous pilgrimages in Canada
• The role of Saint Anne in Indigenous Catholicism
• Popular and "lived" religion
• Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary and of saints
• Relics and miracles
• The canonization process in the Catholic Church
• Christian martyrdom
• Jean de Brébeuf and the cult of the North American Martyrs
• Catholic shrines and pilgrimages
• Marian apparitions (visions of the Virgin Mary)
• Vatican II and the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
• Multiculturalism and religion in contemporary Canada

Areas of Expertise:

• 20th century
• Aboriginal history
• Aboriginal Studies
• Canadian history
• Canadian studies
• Classics and religious studies
• Cultural history
• European history
• French-Canadian culture
• History of art
• History of religious communities
• Indigenous Conceptions
• Medieval studies
• New France
• North America
• Postcolonial studies
• Religion
• uOttawa

Language Preference:

French and English