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2011 Canada Research Chair positions
The Canada Research Chair program has been established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster research excellence and enhance their role as world-class centers of research. Further information on the program is available on the CRC web site.
Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics (Tier II) in the Department of French Studies.
She works on the structure of Malagasy, the language spoken in Madagascar. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at McGill, under the supervision of Lisa Travis, in which she addressed questions about clause structure in Malagasy.
Tilottama Rajan
Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario, where she was Director of the Centre for Theory and Criticism from 1995-2001. Before coming to Western in 1990, she taught at Queen's University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of California San Diego.
The author of four books and over seventy articles, she has also edited or coedited seven book collections. Her research and supervisory interests include British Romantic literature (the 1790s novel, Mary Shelley, and the now marginalized Big Six), Romantic philosophy and science, and Contemporary Theory (particularly deconstruction and phenomenology) in its interrelations with Romantic and Idealist philosophy.
Having just published a book on Romantic Narrative, she is now working on two further projects: a genealogy of encyclopedic and comprehensive thinking from Idealism and Romanticism to Deconstruction; and a book that reads between Hegel and Schelling on a number of topics including aesthetics, historiography, the life and earth sciences, and organizations of knowledge.
Charles Weijer BMdSc, MD Alberta; BA(Hons), MSc, PhD McGill
Charles Weijer is Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Medicine, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, and Director of the Joseph L. Rotman Institute of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He received his MD from the University of Alberta (1988) and PhD from McGill University (1997), supervised by the late Benjamin Freedman.
His research interests include the ethical analysis of benefits and harms in research, research in developing countries, and research involving communities. He served as a consultant to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the U.S. National Academies Institute of Medicine, President Clinton’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the World Health Organization, and the World Medical Association. Dr. Weijer was elected a Fellow of the Hastings Center (2002), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2003), Fellow of the American College of Physicians (2007), and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2007).
Faces of A&H
Classical Studies
Elizabeth Greene
Elizabeth has been engaged in field work at the Roman Fort of Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall in Northern England for the last nine years. SEE PROFILE
Women's Studies and Feminist Research
Tracy Isaacs
Tracy Isaacs is developing research and community engagement in Tanzania, as part of Western Heads East. SEE PROFILE
Visual Arts
Sean Smith, Artist/Scholar-in-Residence
Sean Smith is the inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario's Department of Visual Arts. SEE PROFILE
English
Ivan Coyote
Learn more about Ivan Coyote, Western's 2012-2013 Writer-in-Residence.
Philosophy
John Bell
John Bell
has been described as ‘potentially one step below Einstein.’
While he laughs at the comparison now, there is no denying this teen prodigy has left a significant mark on the philosophy of mathematics. SEE PROFILE
French Studies
Henri Boyi
Winner of the 2012 Western Humanitarian Award, Henri Boyi shares his passion for helping people in need...read more
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