2007 Tenure and Promotion
Tenure
Meir Amor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Meir Amor received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in 2007. Dr. Amor earned his Ph.D. (1999) in sociology from the University of Toronto; he joined Concordia in 2002. Dr. Amor’s research has two focal points: the historical investigation of ethnic and racial violence, ethnic cleansing, expulsion and genocide, the Israeli society and the peace process in the Middle East. He has also done work on Canadian citizenship’s regime with a special focus on Quebec. He is the author of 9 articles (and a book chapter) published in scholarly journals and books on Genocide scholarship, sociology, politics as well as history. His current research examines the emergence of pan social movements as precursors of ethnic racial violence in late Ottoman Turkey (1908-1918) and Second Reich and Weimar Germany (1871-1933).
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Marco Bertola
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Marco Bertola received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia in 2002. Born in Italy, he completed his studies there; he obtained the "Laurea" in Physics at the University of Milan in 1995 with a thesis on "Thermal effects of quantization on curved spacetimes" and then went on with his graduate studies at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA-ISAS) under the supervision of Prof. Boris Dubrovin. He then moved to Montréal in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques before joining Concordia. Since 1999, Dr. Bertola has published over two dozens scientific papers in recognized international journals, was invited to numerous international conferences held in Canada, US and several European countries, has been holder of several grants from both the Federal and Provincial granting agencies, was co-organizer of the CRM Short program in Random Matrices in the summer 2005 and subsequently guest editor of the special issue of Journal of Physics A dedicated to the event. His scientific activity is mostly in the area of Random Matrices, asymptotic theory of differential equations and application to integrable dynamical systems and he maintains several collaborations with recognized researchers in both Canadian and foreign institutions. Currently he is co-organizing a Short Program conference on the Moduli theory of Riemann surfaces (Summer 2007).
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Saul Carliner
Department of Education
Dr. Saul Carliner received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia in 2003. He holds a Ph.D. in Education from the Georgia State University, USA. Prior to joining Concordia University, Dr. Carliner served on the faculties of City University of Hong Kong, Bentley College, the University of Minnesota, and Southern Polytechnic State University. He started his academic career after 17 years in industry - most of those at IBM. An inter-disciplinary researcher whose work is rooted in the fields of educational technology and technical communication, his current projects focus on emerging genres of online communication for the workplace and the business practices of content development departments. He has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Council on Learning, University Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the Society for Technical Communication. He has published over 100 articles, including 33 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including two which received Best of Show Awards and two more that received Awards of Distinguished Technical Communication) as well as six books. He serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Performance Improvement Quarterly, and Information Design Journal, for whom he is also a columnist. He is a Certified Training and Development Professional, past research fellow of the American Society for Training and Development, and a fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.
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Richard Courtemanche
Department of Exercise Science
Dr. Richard Courtemanche received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise Science at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise Science in 2002. Dr. Courtemanche earned his Ph.D. in Neurological Sciences (Université de Montréal) in 2000, and did postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in brain and cognitive sciences. Initially trained as an exercise scientist, he is a neurophysiologist, and has published in the areas of motor control and how brain areas organize themselves to promote movement and changes in mental state. Recent publications are aimed at understanding the role of networks of neurons in controlling movement and sensation. Dr. Courtemanche is a member of the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology and is the Graduate Program Director in Exercise Science. He has lectured in both fundamental and clinical areas to undergraduate and graduate students in Exercise Science.
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Louis Cuccia
Department of Chemistry & Biology
Dr. Louis Cuccia received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Concordia University in 2007. He joined the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry as an Assistant Professor in January 2002. Dr. Cuccia earned his Ph.D. (1997) at McGill University studying the biophysical properties of bipolar phospholipids under the supervision of Prof. Bruce Lennox. Prior to joining Concordia University, Dr. Cuccia carried out postdoctoral research on Supramolecular Chemistry at Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France) with Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn and studied advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques at the Steacie Institute (NRC) in Ottawa, with Dr. Linda Johnston. He has an enthusiastic group of graduate and undergraduate students carrying out research in his laboratory on topics ranging from macromolecular folding and unfolding to probing the origins of biological homochirality. He has published over 20 refereed papers and has contributed to a book chapter on the structure, properties and applications of foldamers. He teaches introductory and advanced Organic Chemistry courses and developed an advanced graduate course on Supramolecular Chemistry. He also has a great interest in popularizing Chemistry and Science to the general public, particularly through his use of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. Dr. Cuccia is a member of the Canadian Society of Chemistry (MCIC), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem, MRSC), and Sigma Xi.
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Hugh Hazelton
Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Dr. Hugh Hazelton received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Concordia University in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1997. He has been an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Spanish Translation in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics since 2002, prior to which he taught at Concordia as a lecturer in Spanish from 1988 to 1999, and then as an LTA from 1999 to 2002. He has also taught at the Université de Montréal and the Université de Sherbrooke. His research interests include Hispanic writing in Canada, as well as comparisons between Canadian and Quebec literatures and those of Latin America, especially Argentina and Chile. He has translated eight books from Spanish and French into English and was coeditor and principal translator of Compañeros (Cormorant, 1991), an anthology of Canadian writing about Latin America. His latest translation, Vetiver, a book of poems by the Haitian-Québec author Joel Des Rosiers, won the Governor General's Award for French-English translation in 2006. His third collection of poems, Antimatter, was published with CD by Broken Jaw Press in 2003, and his study of Latino-Canadian literature, Latinocanadá: A Study of Ten Latin American Writers of Canada, will be published by McGill-Queen's Press in the spring of 2007. Dr. Hazelton has published over twenty papers on comparative literature and translation and has translated more than a hundred poems, short stories, film scripts, and articles; he has also presented fifty papers in Argentina, Mexico, Germany, Austria, the United States, and Canada. He received an individual FRQSC grant in 2003 and a SSHRC grant, along with six scholars from two other universities, in 2005. His translation work has been furthered by six grants from the Canada Council.
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Axel Huelsemeyer
Department of Political Science
Dr. Axel Huelsemeyer received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in 2007. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in 2002 and joined Concordia University immediately thereafter. Within his subfield of International Relations, he is a specialist on the processes of economic globalization and regional economic integration. His work has been published in a number of German- and English-speaking venues, among them several peer-reviewed academic journals. He is the editor, sole author, and co-author, respectively, of three refereed books. Dr. Huelsemeyer currently holds an FQRSC research grant on the prospect and likely shape of the proposed Free Trade Area of Americas. He has supervised three master's theses and three internship reports. Honours Advisor and Undergraduate Program Director from 2004 to 2006, he is now the Department of Political Science's Graduate Program Director and oversees the admissions to its master's and doctoral programs.
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Mikhail Iossel
Department of English
Prof. Mikhail lossel received tenure at Concordia University in 2007. He is Associate Professor in the Department of English. He was born in Leningrad, USSR, where he graduated with an MS in Engineering from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute and subsequently worked as an electromagnetic engineer, while simultaneously belonging to a circle of underground (samizdat) writers. He immigrated to the United States in 1986. After receiving an MA degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction at Stanford University. He subsequently taught creative writing, both on undergraduate and graduate levels, at the University of Minnesota, New York University, St. Lawrence University, Union College - as well as several writing conferences and literary festivals in the United States and abroad. Since 2004 he has been on the faculty of Concordia University’s English Department. He had numerous publications in samizdat magazines in the former Soviet Union. He writes both in English and in Russian. Every Hunter Wants to Know, his collection of stories (W.W. Norton), was translated into French and Russian. He co edited (with Jeff Parker) Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive), a book of essays. His stories have been published in literary magazines in Canada, the US and abroad, translated into several foreign languages, and anthologized in Best American Short Stories and elsewhere.
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Michael Lipson
Department of Political Science
Dr. Michael Lipson received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in 2002. Prior to joining the department, he held visiting appointments at the University of Colorado-Boulder (1999-2000), the University of Pennsylvania (2000-2001), and Princeton University (2001-2002). He received his Ph.D. (1999) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research addresses the role of international institutions in responding to threats to international peace and security, with particular focus on nonproliferation export control and international peacekeeping. He has published in The Nonproliferation Review, International Studies Review, International Journal, Global Governance, and European Journal of International Relations. Dr. Lipson teaches courses in international relations, international organizations, U.S. foreign policy, and organizational theory. He is a member of the Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité (CEPES). He is the 2005-2007 program chair of the Committee for the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (CAMOS), a related group of the American Political Science Association. He has received an FQRSC Nouveaux Chercheurs grant and an individual Standard Research Grant from SSHRC.
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Sophie Marcotte
Département d'Études françaises
Mme Sophie Marcotte a obtenu la permanance et a été promue au rang de professeure agrégée de littérature au département d'Études françaises. Elle est titulaire d'un doctorat (Ph.D.) en littérature canadienne-française et québécoise de l'université McGill (2000), où elle a rédigé une thèse sur la correspondance de la romancière Gabrielle Roy. Avant son arrivée à Concordia en 2003, elle a été professionnelle de recherche à l'Université du Québec àChicoutimi. Les recherches actuelles de Mme Marcotte se concentrent autour de trois axes: l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy; les manuscrits et les archives d'écrivains; les imaginaires collectifs dans le roman québécois contemporain. Les cours qu'elle assure, autant au 1er qu'au 2e cycle, sont essentiellement liés à la littérature québécoise et à la théorie littéraire. Mme Marcotte a publié ou participé à la publication de trois livres, fait paraître de nombreux articles sur la littérature québécoise, et elle a présenté un grand nombre de communications et de conférences au Canada, aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Elle a notamment préparé l’édition critique des lettres de Gabrielle Roy à son mari (Mon cher grand fou... Lettres à Marcel Carbotte, 2001); elle a collaboré à 1'édition du récent recueil Rencontres et entretiens avec Gabrielle Roy (2005), et elle a préparé, en collaboration avec F. Ricard et J. Everett, 1'édition du Pays de Bonheur d'occasion et autres récits autobiographiques épars et inédits (2000). Elle a par ailleurs dirigé un numéro de la revue Voix et images consacré à l'œuvre de Gilles Archambault (2006). Elle est responsable d'un projet d'édition électronique au sein du Groupe de recherche sur Gabrielle Roy (CRSH 2002-2005 et 2005-2008) qu'elle co-dirige, depuis le printemps 2002, avec les professeurs François Ricard et Jane Everett (McGill). Elle détient aussi une subvention individuelle du FQRSC (2006-2009), Nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, pour un projet visant la création d'une communauté virtuelle autour de l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy.
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Jean François Mayer
Department of Political Science
Dr. Jean François Mayer received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He is a specialist of Comparative Politics (Developing Countries). His main geographical area of interest is Latin America, with particular emphasis on Mexico and Brazil. Dr. Mayer has published extensively on a variety of themes, covering the challenges of democratic institution building; political orientations and behaviour of labor and business organizations; and socioeconomic policy reforms in Latin America. Dr. Mayer's current work focuses on the dynamics of contemporary state-labor relations in Mexico and Brazil, on labor and human rights in Latin America, as well as on the political underpinnings of social policy reform in the Americas.
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Norma M. Rantisi
Department of Geography, Planning and Environment
Dr. Norma Rantisi received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University in 2007. She was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in 2002. She received her Ph.D. (2002) in Geography from the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests include local economic development and policy, industrial restructuring, and the cultural economy of cities. In 2003, she received a grant from Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture to undertake a study of the design innovation system for the Montreal apparel industry, and in 2006, she received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to examine the local and global sources of innovation for the Montreal fur industry. She is also a co-applicant, along with over 25 researchers across Canada, on a SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research Initiative on "The Social Dynamics of City-Regions". Dr. Rantisi has published in international, peer-reviewed journals in the fields of Geography and Planning, and is presently on the editorial board of Geography Compass.
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Shelley Z. Reuter
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Shelley Z. Reuter received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in 2007. She was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2003. Prior to joining Concordia University, Dr. Reuter served as a tenure-track faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Limited Term Appointment at Queen's University, where she also earned her Ph.D. (2001). Dr. Reuter has several peer-reviewed publications, including articles in leading international journals, book chapters, and a book. She is currently engaged in SSHRC and FQRSC funded research on medical radicalism. Dr. Reuter's main scholarly contribution has been in the sociology of medicine; however her work is largely interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, science, women's and cultural studies. The focus of her research primarily has been on psychiatry and genetics, with specific emphasis on the production of medical knowledge in relation to disease and cultural classifications, medical racialism, gender, contemporary and feminist theories, and embodiment. She has also begun a new research project, which ventures into the area of reproductive choice, work, family, and social policy, with specific emphasis on the issue of motherhood and academia.
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Arusharka Sen
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Arusharka Sen received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired in 2002 as Assistant Professor (Statistics). Prior to joining Concordia, Dr. Sen was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Michigan State University, USA, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hyderabad, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1993 and was the winner of a prestigious doctoral and a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Board for Higher Mathematics, India. Dr. Sen's main research interests are in the areas of survival analysis and non-parametric curve-smoothing, and he holds an NSERC Discovery grant (2003 - 2008) for his project on an optimization approach to statistical inference for censored data. In addition to his main research areas Dr. Sen continues to work and publish on the topic of risk processes in actuarial mathematics, statistical models for protein sequences and distribution of statistics related to Gaussian processes.
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Lucian Turcescu
Department of Theological Studies
Dr. Lucian Turcescu received tenure at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Associate Professor in the Department of Theological Studies in 2005. Prior to joining Concordia University, Dr. Turcescu taught for six years at St. Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia), where he became a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theology (1999) from the University of Toronto. He has done research and published in several areas, including religion and politics in post-communist Romania, early Christianity, and ecumenism. With generous financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he has recently co-authored (with political scientist Dr. Lavinia Stan) Religion and Politics in Post-communist Romania (in press, Oxford University Press, 2007). He authored or co-authored over two dozens peer-reviewed articles which have been published in journals such as Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, East European Politics and Societies, Problems of Post-Communism, Religion, State and Society, Modern Theology, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and Vigiliae Christianae.
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Promotion
Frank Chalk
Department of History
Dr. Frank Chalk was promoted to Professor in the Department of History at Concordia University in 2007. He was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Sir George Williams University in 1964 and promoted to Associate Professor in 1970. Prior to joining Sir George, he served for one year as a full-time instructor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Chalk earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research since 1978 has spanned the history of genocide. He was the founding co-director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, a research centre for the faculty of Arts & Sciences (1986 – present), and currently serves as its director. Among his honours, Dr. Chalk was appointed a Fullbright Professor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1975-1976), earned an award for teaching excellence from the Concordia Council on Student Life (1994), and was named a Fellow of the Holocaust Research Center of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2000-2001). Dr. Chalk’s current research focuses on radio broadcasting in the incitement and prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity. In 2006-2007, he is a co-applicant for an SSHRC Community University Research Alliance grant and for an SSHRC standard research grant.
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Ailie Cleghorn
Department of Education (Educational Studies)
Dr. Ailie Cleghorn was promoted to Professor in the Department of Education at Concordia University in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in 1981 from McGill University. After working as a research associate at McGill University and teaching part time, she joined the Department of Education at Concordia University in 1989, teaching as an LTA for four years. She then held a research position at the rank of associate while also teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in education. She was hired into a tenured position in 1996. Her research interests lie in two main areas: (1) language issues in education in Africa and (2) cross-cultural conceptions of childhood and early childhood education. She has received grants to support her research from such agencies as SSHRC, CIDA, IDRC and the British Council. Dr. Cleghorn currently teaches Comparative Education at the Undergraduate level. At the graduate level her courses include Literacy and Development and research Methods in Education. She has supervised close to 60 masters students and is currently co-supervising three doctoral students.
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Mark Hale
Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Dr. Mark Hale was promoted to Professor in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Concordia University in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1987. In that year he joined the Harvard University Linguistics Department and taught there until 1995, when he moved to Concordia University. Dr. Hale has published extensively in historical linguistics, phonological theory, and Oceanic linguistics. He is currently engaged in the SSHRC funded research on the history of English ‘do support.’ Previous SSHRC funded projects include work on Archaic Latin syntax and the synchronic and historical grammar of Nauruan, an endangered Oceanic Language. Dr. Hale teaches undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on a wide range of topics within linguistics, including language acquisition, theoretical syntax, and the grammatical structure of a variety of ancient and medieval Indo-European Languages.
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Dmitry Korotkin
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Dmitry Korotkin was promoted to Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University in 2007. He received his Ph.D. (1990) in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). From 1991 to 1993 he was an Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg Institute for Aviation Instrumentation. From 1993 to 1995 he held a Humboldt fellowship in the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hamburg; from 1995 to 1999 he had research positions in Hamburg and at Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam. In 2000 he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University at the rank of Assistant Professor and received (early) promotion to Associate Professor in 2002. In 2003 he was awarded a Concordia University Research-Chair (Tier II). His research interests include exact solutions of Einstein’s equations, quantum gravity, integrable systems, theory of random matrices and spectral theory of Riemann surfaces. He has published over 40 refereed papers in leading international journals, and about 15 papers in conference proceedings and preprints. Dr. Korotkin holds NSERC Discovery grant and several NATEQ research team grants since 2000.
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Dan McLaughlin
Department of Biology
Dr. Dan McLaughlin was promoted to Professor in the Department of Biology at Concordia University in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Biology (Parasitolgy) from the University of New Brunswick in 1970 and joined the Biology Department of Loyola College in 1972 following Post Doctoral studies in the Department of Zoology at the University of Manitoba. His research program has focused on the seasonal and transmission ecology of parasitic worms in migratory birds with particular emphasis on species of parasite belonging to the family Cyclocoelidae. More recently, his emphasis has shifted from adult parasites in birds to their larval stages in crustaceans and fish. This work focused on the phatogenesis of larval stages in crustaceans and on the development of molecular methods for species level identification of eyeflukes (larvae of Diplostomum species) that infect the lens of fishes. Current work supported by NSERC will use these molecular methods to study the distribution and community structure of eye flukes in the local fish community. Dr. McLaughlin has supervised a number of doctoral, masters and honours students and has published extensively on the parasites of migratory birds.
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Frances M. Shaver
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dr. Frances Shaver was promoted to Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in 2007. She received her Ph.D. (1987) from the University of Montreal and joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 1989 as a Canada Research Fellow. She was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor five years later in June 1994. Prior to coming to Concordia Dr. Shaver’s experience included two years as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of sociology, UQAM; two years as a research officer with the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women in Ottawa; sixteen years wherein she combined work as an independent researcher with part-time teaching at Concordia University and Dawson College, and two years as a community worker in downtown eastside Vancouver. Dr. Shaver’s research and publications highlight the role of women in agriculture, human sexual behaviour (including a special focus on prostitution and other forms of sex work), rural poverty/deprivation, the household and the economy, and social determinants of health and well-being and their impact on work and family environments.
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Dale Stack
Department of Psychology
Dr. Dale Stack was promoted to Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University in 2007. She received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University and completed a SSHRC funded Post-doctoral fellowship at McGill University/Montreal Children’s Hospital. She joined Concordia’s Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in 1990. She is a principal member of the FQRSC funded Centre for Research in Human Development. Her research focuses on the development and trajectories of children at low and high risk for developmental problems and psychopathology, and on infant development (typical and at-risk), including patterns of adaptive and maladaptive transactions between mothers and very young children. Dr. Stack’s interests include: intergenerational transfer of psychosocial risk; long-term outcomes of childhood aggression and social withdrawal; development of very low birth weight preterm infants; early health and development, parenting, risk and protective factors; parent-child interactions and infants’ socio-emotional development. She currently holds research grants from SSHRC, FQRSC, Hospital for Sick Kids Foundation, and CIHR.
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