- Susan Mann
Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C. (born 1941) is a Canadian historian and was president of
York University from 1992 to 1997.Born in
Ottawa ,Ontario , Mann received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from theUniversity of Toronto , a Master of Arts degree from theUniversity of Western Ontario in 1965, a Ph.D. fromUniversité Laval in 1970. A professor, she taught at theUniversité de Montréal (1966-1970),University of Calgary (1970-1972), and theUniversity of Ottawa (1972-1992). She was chair of the Department of History at the University of Ottawa from 1977 to 1980. From 1984 to 1990 she was Vice-Rector Academic. From 1992 to 1997, she was the first woman president of York University.She is the author of "Visions nationales, Une histoire du Québec" (1986), "Dream of Nation. A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec" (1982), "Stanley Knowles. The Man from Winnipeg North Centre" (1982), and "Action Française. French Canadian Nationalism in the 1920s" (1975).
In 1985, she was made a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada . In 2000, she was made a Member of theOrder of Canada .References
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