Lesley Cormack, PhD
Title & Home Department: Professor, History & Classics
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
Memberships:
- 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
Personal Interests and Hobbies:
- 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