Chancellor: Lynton R. Wilson, O.C., B.A., M.A., D.h.c. (Hon.), LL.D. (Hon.), D.C.L. (Hon.), LL.D. (Hon.), LL.D. (Hon.), LL.D. (Hon.)
President and Vice-Chancellor: Patrick Deane, B.A. B.A.Hons., M.A., Ph.D.
Provost and Vice-President (Academic): David Wilkinson, M.A.Sc., Ph.D., F.C.I.M., F.A.Cer.S., P. Eng.
Vice-President (Research and International Affairs): Mohamed Elbestawi, B.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng.
Dean and Vice-President (Health Sciences): John G. Kelton, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)
Vice-President (Administration): Roger Couldrey, Dip.F.S.
Vice-President (University Advancement): Mary Williams
Associate Vice-President (Faculty): Susan Searls Giroux, Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President (Teaching & Learning): TBD
Associate Vice-President (Student): TBD
Associate Vice-President, Academic (Health Sciences): Susan D. Denburg, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President and Dean of Graduate Studies: Allison B. Sekuler, B.A., Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President (Health Sciences, International Health): Andrea Baumann, B.Sc.N.,M.Sc.N., Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Vice-President (International Affairs): M.W. Luke Chan, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Vice-President (Institutional Research and Analysis): Jacy Lee, Ed.D.
Associate Vice-President (Research): Fiona E. McNeill, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Dean of Business: Len Waverman, B.Comm, M.A., Ph.D.
Dean of Engineering: (Acting) Arthur Heidebrecht, M.S., Ph.D., P.Eng., Prof. Emeritus
Dean of Humanities: (Acting) Kenneth Cruikshank, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Dean of Science: (Acting) Peter G. Sutherland, B.Sc., M.S., Ph.D.
Dean of Social Sciences: Charlotte Yates, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Deans of Graduate Studies:
Naresh Agarwal, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Catherine Hayward. M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P.C.
Bonny Ibhawoh, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Tony Porter, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Heather Sheardown, B. Eng., Ph.D.
(Acting) Bruce Milliken, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Life and Research Training: Peter Self
Associate Registrar and Graduate Secretary: Stephanie Baschiera, B.A. Hons., M.L.I.S.
University Registrar: Melissa Pool
University Librarian: (Acting) Vivian Lewis
Secretary of the Board of Governors and the Senate: (Acting) H. Ayre, B.A.
Principal of McMaster Divinity College: Stanley E. Porter, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
The Associate Vice-President and Dean’s Message
McMaster University is known world-wide for innovation in education and research, and the students who are enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies’ programs are the engine that drives that reputation.
We offer Master’s and Ph.D. level programs in fields spanning the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences and Engineering, Business, and the Health Sciences. McMaster also has a long tradition of interaction across disciplinary boundaries, and students and faculty are increasingly finding homes for research and scholarship in our interdisciplinary programs.
The School of Graduate Studies provides leadership for all of these graduate programs, and is responsible for maintaining and improving the standards of graduate scholarship and research at McMaster, and enhancing McMaster’s national and international reputation as a leader in graduate studies and research training. The School also leads strategic planning for graduate expansion and the development of new graduate programs and interdisciplinary programs, works to promote a holistic view of the graduate student experience at McMaster, and will play an increasing role in supporting knowledge translation, professional development, and research training at all levels.
I am honoured to be leading the School of Graduate Studies at this exciting time in the School’s history, as we renew the School’s mission: to provide the best education and training for our students, and to inspire the next generation of researchers, scholars, and leaders.
ALLISON B. SEKULER
Associate Vice-President and Dean (Graduate Studies)
Associate Deans of Graduate Studies
Allison B. Sekular
Dr. Allison Sekuler received her B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology degree from Pomona College in 1986. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently professor in the department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour.
Dr. Sekuler is a Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and focuses on vision science and aging in her research. She was McMaster’s first Associate Vice-President (Research), and has served as Acting Vice-President for Research and International Affairs, Acting Associate Dean, Research and External Relations, Faculty of Science, and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies), Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour. As Associate Vice-President (Research), she crafted new programs for post-doctoral fellows, spearheaded the development of new undergraduate research initiatives, and facilitated interdisciplinary research programs, including innovative interactions bridging researchers across the arts, humanities, sciences, and engineering. She is also deeply committed to knowledge translation, and helped found several high profile public outreach programs at McMaster, such as Science in the City and the MACafé Scientifique.
Dr. Sekuler has won numerous national and international awards for research, teaching and leadership, while graduating and supervising Ph.D., Master’s, undergraduate students, and post-doctoral fellows, and has served on and chaired provincial, federal and international grant review panels and external boards related both to her research and to McMaster’s mission.
Catherine Hayward
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies - Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr. Catherine Hayward trained in Medical Laboratory Technology at Dawson College and received her B.Sc. and M.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1980 and 1984. She trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology at the University of Toronto and in Transfusion Medicine at McMaster University. In 1995, she received her Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from McMaster University, and the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for her doctoral thesis. She is the recipient of the Gold Medal in Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, a Premier’s Research Excellence Award, a Canada Research Chair in Molecular Haemostasis, a Heart and Stroke Career Investigator Award, among others. Dr. Hayward joined McMaster University Faculty in 1995 and is a Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, and Medicine. She is a Hematologist at Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare. She runs a clinic focused on bleeding problems and serves as Head of Coagulation for the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program.
Dr. Hayward has long standing interests in education and research in Health Sciences. She served on the Graduate Policy and Curriculum Committee (Health Sciences) and she was Program Director for the McMaster University Adult Hematology Program. She established the Clinician Investigator Training Program at McMaster University as the first Program Director. She served as Chair of the Clinician Investigator Program Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada, leading initiatives to assess and improve clinician investigator training in Canada. She has served as Scientific Officer, Vice Chair and Member of numerous peer review panels for granting agencies. She is the Immediate Past President of the North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association, Co-Chair of the Platelet Physiology Committee for the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Executive Secretary and President Elect of the International Society of Laboratory Hematology. She also serves on Editorial and Advisory boards for journals in her field.
Dr. Hayward’s research interests span bench to bedside investigations on bleeding disorders and the molecular mechanisms of hemostasis. Dr. Hayward has held continuous, peer reviewed grant funding and external career awards since her recruitment to Faculty, including operating grant support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. Her research team includes graduate students in Medical Sciences and postdoctoral fellows.
Dr. Hayward has been appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Health Sciences for a five-year term. As Associate Dean, she has primary responsibility for furthering McMaster goals for graduate education and research in health sciences, and provides the leadership and coordination of all activities related to these goals. She is also a member of Graduate Council and its Executive.
Bonny Ibhawoh
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research - Faculty of Humanities
Bonny Ibhawoh has received his M.A from the University of Ibadan and Ph.D. from Dalhousie University. He teaches in the Department of History, the Institute on Globalization and the Centre for Peace Studies where he was previously the conflict studies. He has taught in Universities in Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. He also has extensive experience working with international research and policy think tanks. He was previously a Human Rights Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, New York; a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen and Associate Member of the Centre for African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
At McMaster, Dr. Ibhawoh has served on several university committees including Departmental and Faculty Executive and Tenure Committees, Scholarships Committee of Graduate Council, the Provost’s Taskforce on Interdisciplinary Studies and the Board-Senate Hearing Panel for Sexual Harassment and Anti-Discrimination. He has also served on Canadian and international grant review panels and as consultant on human rights to public, non-profit and corporate organizations.
As a believer in the value and utility of public scholarship, Dr. Ibhawoh strives to disseminate his research findings on human rights and peace/conflict studies beyond the academic community through monographs and journal publications but also through policy papers, project reports, documentary films and media commentaries.
Dr. Ibhawoh has been appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research for the Faculty of Humanities for a five‐year term. As Associate Dean, his responsibilities include assisting with the development, maintenance, and improvement of graduate programs in the Faculty of Humanities and the University at large.
Naresh Agarwal
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research - Faculty of Business
Dr. Naresh Agarwal received his B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Delhi University, M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota. His academic and professional interests lie in compensation/reward systems, human resources planning and management, and employment and pay equity issues. He has taught graduate courses, supervised doctoral students, and published extensively in these areas.
Dr. Agarwal has served as Area Chair, Acting Director of Ph.D. Program, and Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Business. He has also served as Chair of the University Faculty Grievance Panel, Chair of the Senate Board for Student Appeals, and the first University Commissioner for Disclosure of Information and Privacy Protection. Externally, Dr. Agarwal has served as Chair of the Ontario Public Service Grievance Board, Board of Inquiry under the Ontario Human Rights Code, and Vice President of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. He has also served on a number of professional bodies, including the Board of Examiners of the Human Resources Professionals Association and the Discipline Committee, the Application Committee, and the Public Accounting Licensing Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
Dr. Agarwal has been appointed as Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research for the DeGroote School of Business for a one year term. He has the overall responsibility for the administration and development of graduate programs and furthering research activities in the Faculty of Business. As Acting Associate Dean, he chairs the Faculty’s Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, and Research Committee.
Tony Porter
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research - Faculty of Social Sciences
Dr. Tony Porter received his B.A. in Political Science from McGill University in 1976, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carleton University in 1987 and 1992. He joined the Department of Political Science at McMaster in 1992. He served as Department Chair from 2002 to 2007. He has been a member of the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Political Science Association (2005-2007) and the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-2012) and has served on the McMaster Research Ethics Board (2008-2011), McMaster’s Arts Research Board (2008-2011), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ad-Hoc Committee on Research Ethics (2009-2010).
Dr. Porter has been appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, for a five year term. In this position he has primary responsibility within the Faculty of Social Sciences for furthering McMaster’s goals regarding graduate education, research, and research training, and for providing leadership and coordination of all activities related to those goals.
Tony Porter conducts research on business regulation and global governance, including especially financial regulation, private and hybrid public/private rulemaking, the organizational effects in governance of technologies, and safety and environmental standards in the automobile industry. He is currently engaged in SSHRC-funded research on the transnational regulatory response to the global financial crisis that began in 2007.
Heather Sheardown
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies - Faculty of Engineering
Heather Sheardown received her B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McMaster in 1989 and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1995. She did a post-doctoral fellowship at McMaster from 1994-1996 and taught at the University of Ottawa from 1996 to 1998 before returning to the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster in 1998. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and is a member of the School of Biomedical Engineering and holds an Adjunct Appointment to the School of Optometry at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Sheardown has been appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Engineering for a five-year term. As Associate Dean, she is responsible for admissions and allocation of graduate scholarships as well as for working with the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Graduate Studies on graduate student issues including recruiting and the development of new programs. She chairs the Faculty’s Graduate Admissions and Study Committee and the Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee and sits on Graduate Council and its Executive Committee.
Dr. Sheardown is an active researcher in the field of ophthalmic biomaterials, with more than 70 publications and 8 patents pending for her work in this area. She has graduated 4 Ph.D. students and 16 M.A.Sc. students to date. She is currently the Scientific Director of the 20/20 NSERC Ophthalmic Materials Network which focuses on the development of new materials and drug delivery systems for the treatment of various eye diseases.
Bruce Milliken
Acting Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research - Faculty of Science
Bruce Milliken received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo. He came to McMaster as a postdoctoral fellow in 1992, and joined the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour (PNB) as a faculty member in 1995. He has served as Associate Chair (Graduate) in PNB on three occasions (1996-2001, 2005-2008, 2011-2013), and has served as a member of the McMaster Research Ethics Board (2006-2011; Vice-Chair in 2010-11).
He is responsible for graduate student admissions and for the allocation of scholarships to the Faculty. As Associate Dean, he chairs the Graduate Curriculum Admissions and Study Committee and is a member of the Graduate Curriculum and Policy Committee for the Faculty. He also serves on Graduate Council and its Executive Committee.
Dr. Milliken conducts research in the domain of human cognition, with a focus on fundamental learning, memory, and attention processes. He supervises both undergraduate and graduate students in his research program, and is particularly committed to mentorship aspects of graduate supervision. Dr. Milliken’s research program has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) throughout his tenure at McMaster. |