Tenure is granted to professors and librarians in recognition of excellent performance – and is the University’s strongest guarantee of academic freedom in research, teaching, and service. The year-long application process is a rigorous evaluation of performance.
At its May 16, 2016, meeting, McGill’s Board of Governors granted tenure to the 50 people in the 2015-2016 tenure cohort.
Forty-fourAssistant Professors have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with Tenure:
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
- Nicolas Kosoy (Natural Resource Sciences)
- Chris Solomon (Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment)
Faculty of Arts
- Gwen Bennett (East Asian Studies)
- Matthew Hunter (Art History and Communication Studies)
- Prashant Keshavmurthy (Islamic Studies)
- Lynn Kozak (History and Classical Studies)
- Andrea Pinkney (Religious Studies)
Faculty of Dentistry
Faculty of Education
- Armando Bertone (Educational and Counselling Psychology)
Faculty of Engineering
- François Bouffard (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
- Jeff Gostick (Chemical Engineering)
- Anne-Marie Kietzig (Chemical Engineering)
- Aditya Mahajan (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Faculty of Law
Desautels Faculty of Management
Faculty of Medicine
- Carolyn Baglole (Medicine)
- Patricia da Cunha Belchior (Physical & Occupational Therapy)
- Etienne De Villers Sidani (Neurology & Neurosurgery)
- Jorg Fritz (Microbiology & Immunology)
- Isabelle Gagnon (Physical & Occupational Therapy)
- Matthew Hunt (Physical & Occupational Therapy)
- Nathalie Johnson (Medicine and Oncology)
- Neda Ladbon Bernasconi (Neurology & Neurosurgery)
- Luke McCaffrey (Oncology and Goodman Research Cancer Centre)
- Arijit Nandi (Health and Social Policy)
- Dao Nguyen (Medicine)
- Melissa Park (Physical & Occupational Therapy)
- Thomas Schmeing (Biochemistry)
- Per Jesper Sjostrom (Medicine and Neurology & Neurosurgery)
- Guiseppina Ursini Siegel (Oncology)
Schulich School of Music
- Rémi Bolduc (Performance)
Faculty of Science
- Jennifer Bartz (Psychology)
- William Coish (Physics)
- Jonathan Davies (Biology)
- Paul François (Physics)
- Tomislav Friscic (Chemistry)
- Hamed Hatami (Computer Science)
- Daniel Kirshbaum (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences)
- Sergey Norin (Mathematics & Statistics)
- Mikael Pichot (Mathematics & Statistics)
- Walter Reisner (Physics)
- Jon Sakata (Biology)
Seven Assistant Librarians were promoted to Associate Librarian with Tenure:
- Edward Bilodeau
- Genevieve Gore
- Jessica Lange
- Tara Mawhinney
- Dawn Mckinnon
- Andrea Miller-Nesbitt
- Anais Salamon
At the same meeting, the Board also approved the granting of tenure to two Associate Professors: Garth Green (Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts) and Philippe Leroux (Schulich School of Music).
All appointments are effective as of June 1, 2016. Congratulations to everyone on achieving this significant milestone in your academic careers.