Lesley Cormack
{{short description|Canadian historian of science}}
{{use dmy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Lesley Cormack
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957}}
| occupation = Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)
| education = {{Plainlist|
- University of Calgary, BA
- University of Toronto, MA, PhD
}}
| nationality = Canadian
| awards = International Academy of the History of Science
}}
Lesley B. Cormack (born 1957){{r|born}} 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.{{r|ubco}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Lesley Cormack, PhD University of Toronto, MA University of Toronto, BA Honors University of Calgary - Directory@UAlberta |url=https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/lcormack |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=apps.ualberta.ca}}{{r|ubco|alberta}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://principal.ok.ubc.ca/dvc-lesley-cormack/biography/ |access-date=2023-07-28 |website=principal.ok.ubc.ca}} She moved to UBC Okanagan as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal in 2020.{{r|ubco|alberta}}
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.{{r|iahs}}
Other Work
Cormack served as director of the Citadel Theatre for nine years.
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){{r|ce}}
- Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel (edited with Glenn Burger, Jonathan Hart, and Natalia Pylypiuk, University of Alberta Press, 2003){{r|mc}}
- 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){{r|hss}}
- Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (edited with Stephen A. Walton and John A. Schuster, Springer, 2017){{r|mp}}
References
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Birth year from copyright page of A History of Science in Society (2nd ed.)
Reviews of Charting an Empire:
- {{citation|last=Martin|first=Geoffrey J.|date=April 1998|doi=10.2307/215815|issue=2|journal=Geographical Review|jstor=215815|pages=321–323|title=none|volume=88}}
- {{citation|last=Woolf|first=D. R.|authorlink=Daniel Woolf|date=September 1998|issue=3|journal=The International History Review|jstor=40101330|pages=650–652|title=none|volume=20}}
- {{citation|last=Armitage|first=David|authorlink=David Armitage (historian)|date=September 1998|doi=10.1080/03086539808583042|issue=3|journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History|pages=96–98|title=none|volume=26}}
- {{citation|last=Mcleod|first=Bruce|date=Fall 1998|issue=4|journal=Renaissance and Reformation|jstor=43445204|pages=101–103|series=New Series|title=none|volume=22}}
- {{citation|last=Mayhew|first=Robert J.|date=October 1998|doi=10.1177/096746089800500413|issue=4|journal=Ecumene|pages=487–488|title=none|volume=5|s2cid=220805677}}
- {{citation|last=Hiffe|first=Robert|date=December 1998|doi=10.3138/cjh.33.3.450|issue=3|journal=Canadian Journal of History|pages=450–451|title=none|volume=33}}
- {{citation|last=Headley|first=John M.|date=Winter 1998|doi=10.2307/2543426|issue=4|journal=Sixteenth Century Journal|jstor=2543426|pages=1207–1209|title=none|volume=29}}
- {{citation|last=Sorrenson|first=Richard|date=January 1999|doi=10.1163/157338299X00193|issue=3|journal=Early Science and Medicine|jstor=4130366|pages=259–260|title=none|volume=4}}
- {{citation|last=Levy|first=F. J.|date=Spring 1999|doi=10.2307/4052828|issue=1|journal=Albion|jstor=4052828|pages=91–93|title=none|volume=31}}
- {{citation|last=Black|first=Jeremy|authorlink=Jeremy Black (historian)|date=April 1999|doi=10.2307/2650494|issue=2|journal=The American Historical Review|jstor=2650494|page=632|title=none|volume=104}}
- {{citation|last=Black|first=Jeremy|authorlink=Jeremy Black (historian)|date=April 1999|issue=456|journal=The English Historical Review|jstor=580132|page=435|title=none|volume=114|doi=10.1093/ehr/114.456.435}}
- {{citation|last=Conley|first=Tom|authorlink=Tom Conley (philologist)|date=April 1999|doi=10.2307/2674128|issue=2|journal=William and Mary Quarterly|jstor=2674128|pages=425–428|title=none|volume=56}}
- {{citation|last=Helgerson|first=Richard|date=Summer 1999|doi=10.2307/2902098|issue=2|journal=Renaissance Quarterly|jstor=2902098|pages=570–571|title=none|volume=52|s2cid=151607716 }}
- {{citation|last=Johnston|first=Ron|date=September 1999|doi=10.1177/030913259902300314|issue=3|journal=Progress in Human Geography|pages=469–470|title=none|volume=23|s2cid=210497206}}
- {{citation|last=Shapin|first=Steven|authorlink=Steven Shapin|date=Fall 1999|issue=2|journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History|jstor=207211|pages=311–312|title=none|volume=30|doi=10.1162/jinh.1999.30.2.311|s2cid=143352280}}
- {{citation|last=Bertram|first=Benjamin|date=March 2001|issue=1|journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers|jstor=3651204|pages=213–215|title=none|volume=91}}
- {{citation|last=Marchitello|first=Howard|date=December 2003|doi=10.1086/386436|issue=4|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/386436|pages=721–722|title=none|volume=94}}
Reviews of A History of Science in Society:
- {{citation|last=Hessenbruch|first=Arne|doi=10.7202/800478ar|journal=Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine|page=51|title=On the history of science in society: From ivory tower to utility|volume=28|year=2005|doi-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Parsons|first=Glenn|issue=3–4|journal=History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences|jstor=23333932|pages=545–546|title=none|volume=27|year=2005}}
- {{citation|last=Hamblin|first=Jacob Darwin|date=August 2005|doi=10.2307/30036722|issue=4|journal=The History Teacher|jstor=30036722|pages=546–547|title=none|volume=38|s2cid=142953244 }}
- {{citation|last=Wigelsworth|first=Jeffrey R.|doi=10.1353/utq.2006.0239|issue=1|journal=University of Toronto Quarterly|pages=165–166|title=none|volume=75|year=2006|s2cid=144062994}}
- {{citation|last=Crowther‐Heyck|first=Hunter|date=December 2006|doi=10.1086/512866|issue=4|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/512866|pages=731–732|title=none|volume=97}}
- {{citation|last=Bak|first=Greg|date=November 2003|issue=72|journal=Histoire Sociale / Social History|pages=527–528|title=Review|url=https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/4418/3616|volume=36}}
- {{citation|last=Perdue|first=Peter C.|authorlink=Peter C. Perdue|date=June 2004|issue=2|journal=The International History Review|jstor=40109484|pages=371–373|title=none|volume=26}}
- {{citation|last=Reinink|first=Martin|date=Winter 2004–2005|doi=10.1353/utq.2005.0192|issue=1|journal=University of Toronto Quarterly|pages=607–608|title=none|volume=74|s2cid=161193215 |doi-access=}}
- {{citation|last=Morel|first=Thomas|issue=1|journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences|page=114|title=Review|url=https://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=RHS_711_0111|volume=71|year=2018}}
- {{citation|last=Abou-Nemeh|first=Catherine|date=June 2018|doi=10.1086/698152|issue=2|journal=Isis|pages=398–400|title=none|volume=109}}
- {{citation|last=Ciocci|first=Argante|date=November 2018|doi=10.1163/18253911-03303012|issue=3|journal=Nuncius|pages=641–644|title=none|volume=33|doi-access=free}}
- {{citation|last=Dobre|first=Mihnea|date=September 2019|doi=10.1163/15733823-00243p05|issue=3|journal=Early Science and Medicine|pages=292–295|title=none|volume=24|s2cid=203555991 }}
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