Harriet Cornell

Harriet (she/her) taught Economic and Social History, and Scottish History at the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, before moving to Edinburgh Law School after completing a Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship. Harriet's academic background is in History, having completed a PhD in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. Her doctoral thesis, 'Gender, Sex and Social Control: East Lothian, 1610-1640', was funded by the ESRC and awarded the Jeremiah Dalziel Prize in British History in 2012.  She is interested in how power, authority and the law mediated the experience of everyday life in early modern communities, and how this was dependent on who you were and where you lived. ‘Agriculture and Economy in Early Modern Scotland’, co-authored with Julian Goodare and Alan R. MacDonald, is under contract with Boydell. At the Law School, Harriet manages the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform – an international north-south research consortium funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through to 2027, and successor to the Political Settlements Research Programme. As part of PeaceRep, Harriet is working with colleagues in Law to develop a new LLM in conflict transitions, which will include gender research-led teaching streams. PeaceRep can be found on all social media platforms, including twitter.