Dr. Lesley Cormack

Lesley Cormack is now the Dean of Arts at the University of Alberta. She was Professor and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at Simon Fraser University and former Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is also the Past- President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and is one of the six-person international Assessor Committee of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. She is author of Charting an Empire (Chicago, 1997), A History of Science in Society (Broadview, 2005).

She is working on a SSRHC-funded project entitled "The Molyneux Globes: Mathematical Practitioners and the Scientific Revolution" and an edited book called Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in early modern Europe.

artsdean@ualberta.ca
www.arts.ualberta.ca

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