Rob Falconer
Associate Professor
History
MacEwan University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Falconer’s overall research and teaching interest lies in the role social and moral regulation, crime and punishment, marginalization and normative social structures play in the construction of collective identities and the creation of social boundaries that helped to define early modern urban communities. His current research programme investigates the social dynamics that existed in early modern urban households. In particular, he is interested in the collective activities of household members to manage conflict and crisis and to improve their collective well-being.
Research Interest
Medieval and early modern Scotland History of the British Isles before 1800 Early modern social history
Publications
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J.R.D. Falconer, “'Mony Utheris Divars Odious Crymes’: Women, Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth Century Aberdeen†Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance and the law in historical perspective 4, no. 1 (March 2010): 7-36.
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J.R.D. Falconer, Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012).
