Anderson, Emma


Full Professor
Faculty of Arts
Classics and Religious Studies

Contact Information:

Office: (613) 562-5800 X1176
E-mail:
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:

Language Preference:

French and English

Find an Expert

line divider

Search our database of more than 500 University of Ottawa experts, who can comment on current events or share their expertise for news features.

Hint: Searches are not case sensitive and word fragments are accepted.