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Patricia Marchak fonds
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2.39 m of textual records
422 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm
18 photographs : col. ; 9 x 13 cm
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Pat Marchak, Professor of Sociology at UBC, gained her BA in 1958 and her Ph.D. in 1970. She was first appointed lecturer/instructor at the university in 1965 and joined the faculty in 1973. She was Dean of Arts from 1990 to 1996 and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology before becoming Dean. She is a past President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. She has served on the executive board of numerous Canadian and international associations in the fields of Sociology, Forestry and Ecology. She has been on the editorial boards of various journals, including the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, BC Studies, and Current Sociology. She served on the Board of the Open Learning Institute, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, and the Board of University Hospitals. In 1987 she was elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada and served for two years as the Vice-President of Academy II for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has also served as chair of BC. Buildings Corporation, and on the Forest Appeals Commission. Dr. Marchak is the author of numerous articles on political ideology, economic development, resources industries, and ecological issues' social context. Her books include Ideological Perspectives on Canada; In Whose Interest; Green Gold: The Forest Industry in British Columbia; The Integrated Circus: The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets; and Logging the Globe. She also co-edited Uncommon Property: The Fishing and Fish Processing Industries in British Columbia. Most recently, Dr. Marchak has served as a faculty associate with the Institute for Resources and Environment (since 1996) and as Distinguished Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Distinguished Studies (2000), both at UBC.
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Fonds consists of textual records which document Dr. Marchak's scholarship and related professional and administrative activities, and includes correspondence, reports, typescripts of speeches and articles, written notes, contracts, journal off-prints, course materials, conference packages, and newspaper and magazine clippings.
The fonds is arranged in the following series: Published Works, Unpublished Works, Books Correspondence and Reviews, Universities, Organizations, & Associations, Political Science and Mahmoodi/Dutton Affairs, Correspondence Course, and Conferences. Some series are further divided into sub-series. Within each series and sub-series, the records have mostly been retained in their original order.
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Transferred to University Archives in January 2001, with a further accrual in August 2006.
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Access is restricted to the Political Science and Mahmoodi/Dutton Affairs series
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