Dr. Elizabeth Scott POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

Dr. Elizabeth A. Scott held the University of Saskatchewan Interdisciplinary Centre for Culture and Creativity’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in the HGIS Lab in 2015 where she worked with Dr. Jim Clifford on the London Ghost Acres, 1850-1919 project. Her research focused broadly on the history of commodity extraction and the role of the Royal Botanical Gardens in British Ceylon in the late nineteenth century. Dr. Scott has now joined the Department of History at the University of Prince Edward Island as a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Lisa Chilton. The two-year research appointment will forge long-range historical connections between medical inspection, poverty, and socio-political anxiety in Britain and Canada.