Royal recognition

Royal recognition

Five Queen鈥檚 University professors elected as fellows to the Royal Society of Canada

By Anne Craig

September 7, 2016

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Five 成人大片 professors have been elected as fellows to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the highest honours for Canadian academics in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The five newest fellows from Queen's have a wide variety of research interests, including drama, philosophy, art history, and mathematics.

The newest Royal Society of Canada fellows are (l to r); Craig Walker, Joan Schwartz, Troy Day and David Bakhurst. Missing from the photo is Daniel David Moses (photo below). (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Five 成人大片 professors have been elected as fellows to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the highest honours for Canadian academics in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The five newest fellows from Queen's have a wide variety of research interests, including drama, philosophy, art history, and mathematics.

鈥淭he five newly elected fellows have made important contributions to their respective fields and represent a diverse mix of areas of study,鈥 says Queen鈥檚 Principal and Vice-Chancellor Daniel Woolf. 鈥淭his award is a testament to their excellent work and I wish to congratulate them.鈥

See also:

Royal Society of Canada recognizes five Queen鈥檚 University faculty members in the New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program. (September 13, 2016)


Daniel David Moses. (Photo by Kendra Pierroz)

Daniel David Moses

Dan School of Drama and Music

With a career spanning four decades, the Delaware Indian is hailed as an artist, teacher, playwright, poet, and essayist, and as a trailblazer for Canada鈥檚 First Nations writing and storytelling community.

鈥淭his is a wonderful vote of confidence,鈥 says Mr. Moses. 鈥淲hen I started writing, it was in part in response to being told there was no such thing as Indian stories. This fellowship indicates my friends and I have managed to change more than a few minds about the nature of the country.鈥

Mr. Moses鈥檚 award-winning works 鈥 13 produced and published plays, four poetry book collections, dozens of poems, and four editions of an anthology of Canadian Aboriginal literature 鈥 insist on the humanity and variety of viewpoints of Canada鈥檚 Indigenous Peoples.


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Craig Walker (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Craig Walker

Dan School of Drama and Music

The Director of the Dan School of Drama and Music, Dr. Walker is a leading scholar in Canadian drama as well as a creative theatre practitioner. He has received considerable admiration as a playwright, director, composer, artistic director, and educator.

鈥淭his is an opportunity to meet other people in my field who may want to collaborate and it will also invigorate my own work,鈥 says Dr. Walker.

As a scholar, he is recognized as an authority on Canadian theatre, and sparked international appreciation for Canada鈥檚 most eminent playwrights with his book The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition.


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David Bakhurst (Photo by Bernard Clark)

David Bakhurst

Philosophy

The Charlton Professor of Philosophy at Queen鈥檚 is an internationally recognized scholar who has made unprecedented contributions to the understanding of 20th century Russian thought, as well as to ethics, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of education. His work is highly interdisciplinary and shows remarkable versatility and creativity.

鈥淩ussian philosophy is not a well-known field, so I am delighted to receive this recognition, and I thank Queen鈥檚 and my department for creating an environment in which unusual research interests can be fruitfully pursued,鈥 he says.

Dr. Bakhurst is the recipient of various honours, including a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. 


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Joan Schwartz (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Joan Schwartz

Art History and Art Conservation

Recognized internationally for her pioneering work as a photographic historian, archival theorist, and historical geographer, Dr. Schwartz has made distinctive, original contributions to scholarship in the history of photography in Canada and professional practice in the management of archives.

鈥淥f course, it鈥檚 enormously rewarding to be recognized in this way, especially since my work straddles three fields, my career path has been far from traditional, and my field of inquiry is taught in so few places,鈥 says Dr. Schwartz. 鈥淎fter a career in archives, I have Queen鈥檚 to thank for the opportunity to pursue my interests in photography, geography, and history in a university setting, and I feel this honour is very much a reflection on the Queen鈥檚 National Scholar program and my department.鈥

Her multi-disciplinary perspective has challenged long-standing assumptions and forged new understandings about the role of photographs in society, their preservation in archives, and their place in Canadian historiography.


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Troy Day (Photo by Bernard Clark)

Troy Day

Mathematics and Statistics

Dr. Day is recognized for his interdisciplinary contributions to mathematics and the life sciences, particularly in the area of evolutionary theory. His analyses of a diverse array of topics 鈥 including the evolutionary biology of infectious disease and the evolutionary consequences of antimicrobial drug treatment 鈥 have greatly advanced our understandings of these subjects.

鈥淭he award is fantastic recognition of my whole team of students and post-docs,鈥 says Dr. Day. 鈥淎nything like this raises the profile of my entire research group.鈥


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