Lizanne Henderson is a Senior

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in history at the

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. She teaches history, tourism and human–animal studies, and publishes on folklore, cultural history and the Scottish diaspore. Her 2016 book ''Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, c.1670-1740'' won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award. She has also won the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Folklore Prize.

Life

Henderson earned a Bachelor of Arts with Double Honours in History and Fine Art from the

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, Ontario, and an MA in folklore from

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, St. John’s. She also has a

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in History from the

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, Glasgow. She teaches history, tourism and human-animal studies in the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Glasgow in Dumfries. Henderson is interested in folklore, cultural history, and the Scottish diaspora. She was visiting scholar at the

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in 2014. Henderson has been an editor of the journal ''Review of Scottish Culture.'' Henderson participated in a public panel on witchcraft in Dumferline in 2019. Henderson was married to historian Professor Edward J. Cowan until his death in 2022. She and her husband formally opened the Crossmichael Heritage Centre & Living History project in 2019. Afterward Cowan’s death, Henderson spent a year editing the manuscript of his book ''Northern Lights'', about Scottish contributions to polar exploration. The book was published by Berlin in 2023. As of 2025, she is also working on a book ''The Glenkens Story'', based on Cowan's work.

Awards

Henderson and her husband's book ''Scottish Fairy Belief: A History'' was published by Tuckwell in 2001, and won the Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe Folklore Prize. In 2016 Henderson's book ''Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, c.1670-1740'' won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

Books

*''Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, c.1670-1740'' Palgrave 2016. *Editor, with Edward J. Cowan, ''A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. *Editor, ''Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture'' Edinburgh: John Donald, 2009. *with Edward J. Cowan, ''Scottish Fairy Belief: A History'' East Linton: Tuckwell P, 2001; 2007. 242pp.

References

External links

Staff web page

Profile on Adventure Canada
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