Emőke Szathmáry
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Biography
Emőke J.E. Szathmáry, CM OM FRSC (born January 25, 1944, in Hungary) was the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba, 1996–2008. Dr. Szathmary was trained as a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human genetics.
Dr. Szathmáry's first administrative post was as chairman of the department of anthropology at McMaster University, a position she left to become Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Western Ontario. She left this position to serve as provost and vice-president (academic) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, before going to her position at the University of Manitoba. Szathmáry was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2004, she was named one of Canada's top 100 most powerful women by the Women's Executive Network and the Richard Ivey School of Business.In 2005, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was named also as a Distinguished Lecturer by the American Anthropological Association, which is the highest recognition given by the anthropological discipline for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship.
Publications (partial list)
- Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, Takeru Akazawa (Editor), Emoke J. E. Szathmáry (Editor)
- Out of Asia:peopling the Americas and the Pacific, Journal of Pacific History, 1985, Robert Kirk, Emöke J. E. Szathmary, editors
- Szathmáry, Emőke J. E. (1993). "INVITED EDITORIAL – mtDNA and the Peopling of the Americas". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 53 (4): 793–799. PMC 1682381. PMID 7692724.
- Szathmáry (1981). "Genetic markers in Siberian and northern North American populations". Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 24: 37–73. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330240503.
- Szathmáry (1984). "Human biology of the arctic". Handbook of North American Indians: 64–71.
- Szathmáry, Emőke (1979). "Blood groups of Siberians, Eskimos, and subarctic and northwest coast indians: the problem of first origins and genetic relations". The First Americans: Origins, Affinities, and Adaptations.
- Szathmáry, Emöke J.E. (2011). "David Damas (1926–2010)". Arctic. Arctic Institute of North America. 64 (1): 125. doi:10.14430/arctic4091. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-07. (obituary)
- Szathmáry, Emőke J. E. (22 October 2006). "Address to the Commemoration in Winnipeg of the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising". Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation / Fondation éducative Canada-Hongrie (CHEF). Retrieved 2011-12-07.
- Little, Michael A.; Kennedy, Kenneth A. R. (eds.). Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century. contributor
- Szathmary, J.E. (1986). "Diabetes in arctic and subarctic populations undergoing acculturation". Collegium Antropologium. 10: 145–158.
- Szathmary, J.E. (1990). "Diabetes in Amerindian populations: The Dogrib studies".In Swedlund, A.C.; Armelagos, G.J. (eds.). Disease in populations in transition. New York: Bergin & Garvey. pp. 75–103.
- Szathmary, J.E. (1994). "Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus among aboriginal North Americans". Annual Review of Anthropology. 23: 457–482. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.23.1.457.
- Szathmary, J.E. (1994). "Factors that influence the onset of diabetes in Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories".In Joe, J.R.; Young, R.S. (eds.). Diabetes as a disease of civilization. Berlin: Moutoun de Gruyter. pp. 229–267.
Directorships (partial)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Power Corporation of Canada, since 1999, Director, Member of Audit Committee and Member of Related Party & Conduct Review Committee
- Power Financial, since 1999
- Great-West Lifeco since 2006
- Can Credit Manag Found 2001-
- Univ Arctic 2007-
- St Boniface Gen Hosp, Manitoba 1996–2008
- Advanced Foods and Materials Network
- Canada Life Financial Corporation
- Great-West Life Capital Trust
- The Canada Life Assurance Company