Biography:Lesley Cormack
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Short description: Canadian historian of science
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| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) |
| Awards | International Academy of the History of Science |
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Lesley B. Cormack (born 1957)[1] is a Canadian historian of science and academic administrator specializing in the history of mathematics and of geography. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus.[2]
Education and career
Cormack obtained her BA from the University of Calgary and her MA from the University of Toronto before earning her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1988.[3][2][4] She was a faculty member at the University of Alberta until 2007, when she moved to Simon Fraser University as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She returned to Alberta as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 2010. While there, she increased the Indigenous student population by 100 percent.[5] She moved to UBC Okanagan as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal in 2020.[2][4]
Cormack specializes in 16th century English geography and mathematics.
Recognition
Cormack became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 2010, and a full member in 2015.[6]
Other Work
Cormack served as director of the Citadel Theatre for nine years.[5]
Books
Cormack is the author or editor of books including:
- Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities 1580-1620 (University of Chicago Press, 1997)[7]
- Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel (edited with Glenn Burger, Jonathan Hart, and Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta Press, 2003)[8]
- A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility (with Andrew Ede, 2 vols., Broadview Press, 2004; 2nd ed., University of Toronto Press, 2012; 3rd ed., 2016 and 2017)[9]
- Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (edited with Stephen A. Walton and John A. Schuster, Springer, 2017)[10]
References
- ↑ Birth year from copyright page of A History of Science in Society (2nd ed.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 UBC announces new Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Okanagan campus, University of British Columbia, 14 February 2020, https://news.ubc.ca/2020/02/14/ubc-announces-new-deputy-vice-chancellor-and-principal-of-okanagan-campus/, retrieved 2020-09-08
- ↑ "Lesley Cormack, PhD University of Toronto, MA University of Toronto, BA Honors University of Calgary - Directory@UAlberta". https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/lcormack.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 McKinnon, Donna (24 June 2020), Farewell to Dean Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta, https://blog.ualberta.ca/farewell-to-dean-lesley-cormack-268c2917cfda
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Biography". https://principal.ok.ubc.ca/dvc-lesley-cormack/biography/.
- ↑ Lesley Cormack, International Academy of the History of Science, http://www.aihs-iahs.org/en/node/1359, retrieved 2020-09-12
- ↑ Reviews of Charting an Empire:
- Martin, Geoffrey J. (April 1998), "none", Geographical Review 88 (2): 321–323, doi:10.2307/215815
- Woolf, D. R. (September 1998), "none", The International History Review 20 (3): 650–652
- Armitage, David (September 1998), "none", The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 26 (3): 96–98, doi:10.1080/03086539808583042
- Mcleod, Bruce (Fall 1998), "none", Renaissance and Reformation, New Series 22 (4): 101–103
- Mayhew, Robert J. (October 1998), "none", Ecumene 5 (4): 487–488, doi:10.1177/096746089800500413
- Hiffe, Robert (December 1998), "none", Canadian Journal of History 33 (3): 450–451, doi:10.3138/cjh.33.3.450
- Headley, John M. (Winter 1998), "none", Sixteenth Century Journal 29 (4): 1207–1209, doi:10.2307/2543426
- Sorrenson, Richard (January 1999), "none", Early Science and Medicine 4 (3): 259–260, doi:10.1163/157338299X00193
- Levy, F. J. (Spring 1999), "none", Albion 31 (1): 91–93, doi:10.2307/4052828
- Black, Jeremy (April 1999), "none", The American Historical Review 104 (2): 632, doi:10.2307/2650494
- Black, Jeremy (April 1999), "none", The English Historical Review 114 (456): 435, doi:10.1093/ehr/114.456.435
- Conley, Tom (April 1999), "none", William and Mary Quarterly 56 (2): 425–428, doi:10.2307/2674128
- Helgerson, Richard (Summer 1999), "none", Renaissance Quarterly 52 (2): 570–571, doi:10.2307/2902098
- Johnston, Ron (September 1999), "none", Progress in Human Geography 23 (3): 469–470, doi:10.1177/030913259902300314
- Shapin, Steven (Fall 1999), "none", Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30 (2): 311–312, doi:10.1162/jinh.1999.30.2.311
- Bertram, Benjamin (March 2001), "none", Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91 (1): 213–215
- Marchitello, Howard (December 2003), "none", Isis 94 (4): 721–722, doi:10.1086/386436
- ↑ Reviews of Making Contact:
- Bak, Greg (November 2003), "Review", Histoire Sociale / Social History 36 (72): 527–528, https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/4418/3616
- Perdue, Peter C. (June 2004), "none", The International History Review 26 (2): 371–373
- Reinink, Martin (Winter 2004–2005), "none", University of Toronto Quarterly 74 (1): 607–608, doi:10.1353/utq.2005.0192
- ↑ Reviews of A History of Science in Society:
- Hessenbruch, Arne (2005), "On the history of science in society: From ivory tower to utility", Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 28: 51, doi:10.7202/800478ar
- Parsons, Glenn (2005), "none", History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (3–4): 545–546
- Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (August 2005), "none", The History Teacher 38 (4): 546–547, doi:10.2307/30036722
- Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R. (2006), "none", University of Toronto Quarterly 75 (1): 165–166, doi:10.1353/utq.2006.0239
- Crowther‐Heyck, Hunter (December 2006), "none", Isis 97 (4): 731–732, doi:10.1086/512866
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe:
- Morel, Thomas (2018), "Review", Revue d'histoire des sciences 71 (1): 114, https://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RHS_711_0111
- Abou-Nemeh, Catherine (June 2018), "none", Isis 109 (2): 398–400, doi:10.1086/698152
- Ciocci, Argante (November 2018), "none", Nuncius 33 (3): 641–644, doi:10.1163/18253911-03303012
- Dobre, Mihnea (September 2019), "none", Early Science and Medicine 24 (3): 292–295, doi:10.1163/15733823-00243p05
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