About Us > Past Executive Committees
This is an archival page, intended to keep track of those who have served on the Executive Committee in the past.
2007-08 WCWI Executive President: Rebecca Coulter, Education
2006-07 WCWI Executive: President: Kelly Olson, Classical Studies Past President: Shaila Beaudry, Office of Faculty Relations Vice President: Rebecca Coulter, Education Secretary: Christine Sprengler, Visual Arts Treasurer: Stephanie MacLeod, Education Membership: Sarah Jane Teetzel, Kinesiology (Graduate Student) Members at Large: Brenda Davis (Philosophy). Bonnie MacLachlan (Classical Studies), Louise Milligan (Zoology), Aara Suksi (Classical Studies), Kim Verwaayen (Women's Studies)
2005-06 WCWI
Executive 2004-2005 WCWI Executive President: Bonnie MacLachlan, Classics Past President: Gloria Leckie, Information and Media Studies Vice-President, Faculty: Madeline Lennon, Visual Arts Vice-President, Staff: Shaila Beaudry, Office of Faculty Relations Treasurer: Rosanne Greene, Information and Media Studies Secretaries:
Gillian Demeyere and Stephanie Montgomery, Faculty of Law
2003/04 Executive Committee Members President:
Gloria Leckie Gloria
J. Leckie Email:
leckie@uwo.ca Teaching
Research
Interests Lately, I have been exploring a new area, relating to the role of central public libraries as civic space. Jeff Hopkins (a colleague in Geography) and I obtained a SSHRC grant to do a comparative study of the Metro Toronto Reference Library and the new Vancouver Central Public Library and the impact these two libraries have as a type of civic space. We are currently writing up the findings and giving various presentations about this study. Associate
Professor, Philosophy
Her principal research project right now is a book on the impact that collective contexts have on individual moral responsibility. In recent months, she has written papers related to the book, including a discussion of individual responsibility for collective wrongs, and an examination of the ways that oppressive social contexts compromise liberatory agency, as well as ways that such obstacles might be overcome. She hopes to have a complete manuscript by the spring. Her next major research project will tackle issues of agency and identity under oppression, with a focus on race. Tracy has been active on the Caucus executive since 1997, and served as Caucus President from 2000-01 to 2002-03. Her work with Caucus has been one of the most rewarding parts of her time at Western so far. This year (2003-04) she is Acting Director for the Centre for Women’s Studies and Feminist Research. She will resume her regular duties in Philosophy on July 1, 2004. Dr.
Kelly Olson
Univ.
of Western Ontario
Gillian
Demeyere Gillian Demeyere joined the Faculty of Law as an assistant professor in 2003. She received her B.A., LL.B. and M.A.(Philosophy) from the University of Western Ontario, and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto, where she is currently completely her S.J.D. (Doctorate in Law). Her research is primarily in the areas of labour law, human rights and private law theory.
University service: Member
of the Executive, Western's Caucus on Women's Issues Ombudsperson, Frances Bauer
Sara Steers is Associate Director, E-Alumni and Development & Outreach, Department of Alumni Relations and Development, UWO and graduated from Western in psychology in 1981. Sara worked in continuing education at Western before joining the Department of Alumni Relations and Development at The University of Western Ontario in September 1997. At Alumni Relations and Development Sara oversees the ways Western reaches out to its alumni and students world-wide through regional programming and the Internet. Sara
has Chaired several professional development conferences and has
presented at various conferences on privacy issues, alumni relations
and e-communications. Sara
was a past president of Western’s Caucus in the mid-nineties
and is currently a member at large on the Board.
Background My
feminist formation took shape in the 1970s, embedded in the broader
context of the activist movements for Civil Rights, Peace and Community
Development. I was fortunate to be part of the original editorial
collective of the Women's Press in Toronto, where the goal of broadly-based
social equality informed our decisions about manuscripts that we
would publish. As an academic I continue to be motivated by this
goal, in my teaching, my research and my participation in the UWO
community. Teaching My two principal areas of specialization are ancient Greek poetry and religion. Among the courses I have taught are the texts of Homer and Sappho, and those related to ancient religious thought. I also have taught Greek and Roman Mythology and the course covering the situation of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Research My principal current project examines ancient rituals conducted by women in Southern Italy and Sicily. This has led me to explore ancient "curse tablets" composed for women who were seeking redress from other women or men who had wronged them. A longer-term project entails a study of Greek poetry as it confers collective identity through shared narratives.
Dr.
Carolyn McLeod
University
of Western Ontario
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Tracy
Isaacs has been a fulltime faculty member in the Department of Philosophy
since receiving her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1992. Her main areas of research and teaching are
moral philosophy and feminist ethics. 
e-mail:
Frances
has been Ombudsperson since June 1988. Before becoming Western's
Ombudsperson, she held held positions at Dawson College, Concordia
University and John Abbott College, all in Montreal. She holds a
B.A. from the University of Manitoba and two Master's degrees from
Concordia. She was a founding member of the Association of Canadian
College and University Ombudspersons (ACCUO), and has served that
organization as both President (1990-91) and Secretary (1996-98).
She has also served as Member-at-Large on the Board of the University
and College Ombuds Association (1994-96). In December 2001 she was
elected to the Board of Directors of the newly formed Forum of Canadian
Ombudsman (forum canadien des ombudsmans) as the representative
of the College and University section.
Debra
Dawson has been the Director of Educational Development Office at
UWO since 1997. She is an Educational Psychologist who completed
all three of her degrees at Western. Her current research are focused
on academic integrity, new millennial students, web-based instruction
and the scholarship of teaching. She is on the executive of two
national organizations interested in higher education in Canada
(Society of Teaching andLearning in Higher Education and Canadian
Society for Studies in Higher Education).
Talbot
College Phone: (519) 661-2111 x85877