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Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail: eanderso@uottawa.ca

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

Area(s) of expertise:

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• 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:

English and French

Ms
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
History

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1308)
E-mail: jkfianu@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Office Telephone

Research information:

Histoire médiévale (France); histoire et pratiques sociales et juridiques de l'écrit. Libraires et autres artisans du livre au Moyen-Âge. Faussaires de documents. Notaires et tabellions royaux.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• European history
• Medieval studies
• Middle Ages

Language preference:

English and French

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5808 (5808)
E-mail: greatrex@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Late Antiquity, i.e. the transition between the later Roman empire and the early medieval period, and especially the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire. In particular the reign of Justinian (527-65) and relations with Sasanian Persia.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Classics and religious studies
• European history
• Medieval studies

Language preference:

English and French , Esperanto; allemand; German

Emeritus professor
Faculty of Arts
Music

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (3817)
E-mail: merkley@uottawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

My research is in the fields of early music (medieval and renaissance music), and film music and new media, I also have experience in quality assurance for academic programs.

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Classical Music
• Curriculum
• Media
• Medieval studies
• Multimedia
• Music
• Opera

Language preference:

English and French , Italian; German

Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Modern Languages and Literatures

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2550)
E-mail: cperissi@uOttawa.ca

Preferred method of contact:

E-mail

Research information:

Area(s) of expertise:

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• 20th century
• European history
• Medieval studies
• Middle East
• Modern languages and literatures
• Second-language teaching
• Second-language teaching

Language preference:

English and French , Italian / italien