Edward Hedican Promoted to Full Professor.

Dr. Hedican earned his graduate degrees from McMaster University (MA) and McGill University (PhD). Hedican is best known for his long-term interest in the Canadian First Peoples, especially the Anishinabe and Ojibwa nations north of Lake Superior. His research of these tribes involved living in an isolated northwestern Ontario village with no electricity, roads, or cars.

Hedican’s holistic approach to ethnography took him to a study of Irish immigrant communities in the nineteenth century in what was at the time Western Canada, His approach to researching this topic was as unique as his approach to studying the Anishinabe and Ojibwa tribes. Hedican recruited student researchers, giving them opportunities not only to earn course credit but to be credited in the academic literature for their work.

Returning from Ireland in a personal quest to understand his own origin story, Dr. Hedican was approached by an unusually large number of students seeking his guidance in what is colloquially called “reading courses.” These students indicated that they wanted to “do real research,” not just read books.

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