Emma Anderson (professor)


Emma Anderson is a Canadian professor teaching since 2005, in the Faculty of Arts Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa located in Canada's capital Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of two books. Her area of expertise focuses on relations between Indigenous and Catholic cultures from the early seventeenth century.

Education

Emma Anderson graduated from Carleton University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and religion. She then did her Masters at Harvard Divinity School in Christianity and Culture and graduated in 1998. In 2005, she completed her Ph.D. in Religious Studies, specializing in North American Religious History from Harvard University.

Career

Anderson currently serves as an associate professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
She is also the former Director of the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Ottawa. Anderson began her teaching career at the University of Ottawa after completing her doctorate from Harvard University in 2005. Her primary research focuses on native-Catholic religious interactions in North America in the Seventeenth century; she also works on the Cult of Relics as well as Martyrdom in Colonial Canada. She teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses, including Christian Pilgrimage, Aboriginal Encounters with Christianity, as well as Saints, Visionaries, and Heretics.

Published works

Academic books