Lesley Cormack, PhD

Education & Career Highlights:

• PhD, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• BA, University of Calgary
• President, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
• Chair, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
• Associate Dean of Student Programs, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta
• Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Early modern science, specializing in geography and mathematics in 16th century England

Responsibilities as Dean:

• Provides strategic leadership to the Faculty
• Directs the Faculty's fund development and communications activities
• Represents the Faculty externally to government, business, the local community and international partners
• Chairs the Faculty Council, Executive Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Chairs Council and Dean's Office Group
• Represents the Faculty at General Faculties Council, Dean's Council, the SSHRC Deans Group and generally in its relations with the central administration of the University
• Oversees all Faculty operations and the implementation of all University and Faculty policies in the Faculty
• In concert with the Assistant Dean (Administration), oversees the management of the Faculty's finances

• History of Science Society
• Society for the History of Technology
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
• Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
• British Society for the History of Science

• Theatre (attending and performing)
• Reading
• Attending my sons’ soccer games
• Walking the dog in the river valley

A Favorite Quote:
“The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.”
- Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

Click here to go to Dean Cormack's faculty page at the Department of History and Classics.

Contact:
Email: artsdean@ualberta.ca
Phone: 780.492.4223