Lizanne Henderson is Senior Lecturer in History, Tourism and Animal Studies (School of Interdisciplinary Studies) University of Glasgow. She works primarily on witchcraft, folk belief and everyday life, Arctic studies, Scottish connections with the slave trade, wildlife tourism, and human-animal studies. She is currently working on a project called Picturing Polar Bears: Past and Present Semiotic and Iconic Perceptions of Ursus maritimus. Her most recent monograph, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670-1740 was winner of the Katharine Briggs Book Award 2016, and she is currently preparing her next monograph (Super)natural Animals in the Age of the Stewarts to the Age of Enlightenment (forthcoming).

Location

Scotland

Disciplines

• History

Affiliation

University of Glasgow