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Canada Research Chairs Program
The Canada Research Chairs Program was launched by the federal government in 2000 to help Canadian universities attract and retain the world’s best researchers.
Tier 1 Chairs, tenable for seven years and renewable, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields.
Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field.
McMaster University now boasts 64 Canada Research Chairs, the third highest number of Chairs allocated in the province of Ontario and the ninth highest in Canada and includes the following from the Faculty of Social Sciences:
Tier I
Canada Research Chair in Bioarchaeology in Human Disease
Philip DeCicca
Tier II
Canada Research Chair in Public Economics
Katherine Cuff
Tier II
Stephen McBride
Tier I
Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization
Tier II
Ontario Research Chairs
Established in 2005 by the Government of Ontario, the Ontario Research Chairs initiative attracts top academics to Canadian universities and significantly increases the capacity to address key public policy issues of social importance and economic prosperity. This initiative is part of the Reaching Higher: The McGuinty Government Plan for Postsecondary Education.
The Faculty of Social Sciences was selected to receive endowments in the following area:
Scott Davies
Ontario Research Chair in Educational Achievement and At-Risk Children
Inaugural Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources
The Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada recognizes merit and achievement by electing to its membership distinguished individuals from all branches of learning who have achieved distinction, both nationally and internationally, by publishing learned works or original research in the arts, humanities and sciences. Election to Fellowship in the Society is the highest academic accolade in Canada that is available to scientists and scholars.
Elected members from McMaster’s Faculty of Social Sciences include:
Harvey Feit
Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Elected 2001
Frank Denton
Professor Emeritus
Department of Economics
Elected 1984
