Cowan, Mairi
Contact Information
3359 Mississauga Road N.
Mississauga, Ontario
L5L 1C6
Mairi Cowan holds a B.A. in History and Religious Studies from the University of Toronto, a B.Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests are concentrated in the areas of late medieval and early modern Scotland, Europe, and the Atlantic World, as well as in history education at the secondary and post-secondary levels.
Dr. Cowan’s current research endeavours include studies of various people associated with the court of James IV, King of Scots (r. 1488-1513), and the project “Engaging Students to Think Critically and Historically in a Large Class”, funded by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Publications
Books
- Death, Life, and Religious Change in Scottish Towns, c. 1350-1560 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2012).
Journal Articles
- with Christopher Landon, “The Missing Links in History Education”, The Canadian Journal for Social Research (forthcoming 2012).
- “Teaching the English Reformation to History Students through the Music of Thomas Tallis”, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 15,2 (Fall 2008), 79-93.
- with Phil Mozel, “Did Philips Lansbergen Own the University of Toronto's De revolutionibus by Nicolaus Copernicus?”, The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (December, 2007), 236-240.
Chapters in Books
- “The Spiritual Ties of Kinship in Pre-Reformation Scotland” in Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, ed. E. Ewan and J. Nugent (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008), 176-195.
Entries in Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- “Thomas Tallis” in The Encyclopedia of Tudor England (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012).
- “Janet Rynd” in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, ed. E. Ewan, S. Innes, R. Pipes and S. Reynolds (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
Magazine Articles and Other Publications for a General Audience
- “Yule in the Court of James IV”, History Scotland (January / February, 2005), 17-23.
- “Plurals”, an advice file for the University of Toronto Writing website (2009).
- “Possessives”, an advice file for the University of Toronto Writing website (2009).
Book Reviews
- Book reviews for The Scottish Historical Review, The History Teacher, the International Review of Scottish Studies, and Northern Scotland.