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Alistair Lachlan Director of Explorations For the past seven years Alistair Lachlan has been working in university administration. Previously, he taught mathematics at SFU’s Burnaby campus and pursued research in mathematical logic, authoring approximately ninety papers. In 2004 Alistair led the development of the Science Year One program at SFU Surrey. |
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Heather Dawkins Dr. Dawkins is the author of The Nude in French Art and Culture, 1870-1910 (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Her current research extends her interest in subjectivity and visual culture by exploring the implications of neuroscience for art history. In our increasingly digital world, Dr. Dawkins is interested in the significance — individual and social — of making things by hand. As an Associate Dean for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2005 to 2009, Dr. Dawkins led new program development for SFU Surrey, preparing a strategic plan, developing curricular proposals, hiring staff and faculty, and promoting new programs.
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Jen Marchbank (On Leave) Associate Professor Jen is an Associate Professor in Explorations and comes to SFU with extensive experience in cohort programs and student support. She received her PhD in Politics from Strathclyde University, UK. Jen's research currently focuses on 'mail order' brides; on the settlement experiences of refugees in BC and on LGBTQ activism in Surrey. Her publications include Introduction to Gender: Social Science Perspectives , Women, Power and Politics: Comparative Studies of Childcare and co-editor of States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance as well as several articles on the experience of both faculty and students in education.View Jen Marchbank's curriculum vitae.
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Sasha Colby (On Leave) Associate Professor Sasha Colby teaches literature, theory, modernist art, and performance. She is author of Stratified Modernism: The Poetics of Excavation from Gautier to Olson (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), an interdisciplinary study about modernist literature and archaeology 1850-1950. Sasha has written six plays for community based performance and has toured her literary play about modernist poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) internationally. Her current work unites traditional scholarship with artistic inquiry by tracing the role of rehearsal and performance practices in the work of modernist poets. Read Sasha Colby's article "The Literary Archaeologies of Théophile Gautier", as published in Comparative Literature and Culture. |
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Sean Markey Associate Professor Sean is an Associate Professor with Resource and Environmental Management, the Explorations in Arts and Social Sciences Program, and an Associate with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University. Sean's research concerns issues of local and regional economic development, community sustainability, rural development, and sustainable infrastructure. He has published widely in academic journals and is the principle author of Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia (UBC Press, 2005) and co-editor of The Next Rural Economies: Constructing Rural Place in Global Economies (Cabi Press, 2010). Sean continues to work with municipalities, non-profit organizations, Aboriginal communities and the business community to promote and develop sustainable forms of community economic development. He serves on the Board of Directors with Vibrant Surrey and the Vancity Community Foundation.
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