Dean's Medal Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award

Betty A. Schellenberg is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of ten books on eighteenth-century literary culture – about women writers, authorship, manuscript culture, literary coteries, Bluestockings, and the novelist Samuel Richardson. At the moment, she is especially interested in manuscript poetry collections in which people created “personal playlists” of their favourite poems, thereby leaving us a record of their tastes and how they saw themselves as active participants in literature.

Mark Pickup is a professor in the Department of Political Science. He is a specialist in political behaviour, political psychology and political methodology. Substantively, his research primarily falls into three areas: political identities and political decision-making; conditions of democratic responsiveness and accountability; and polls and electoral outcomes. His research focuses on political information, public opinion, political identities, norms and election campaigns within North American and European countries.