Ken Coates (historian)

This article is about the Canadian historian. For the British politician, see Ken Coates.
Ken Coates
Ken Coates speaking in 2022
Born1956
Alberta, Canada
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan (Canada Research Chair and faculty member in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy)

Ken Coates (born 1956) is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims. His other areas of specialization include Arctic sovereignty;[1] science, technology and society, with an emphasis on Japan; world and comparative history; and post-secondary education. Coates is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and Director, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan.[2] In 2015, Coates was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3]

While Coates was dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, he played an integral role in the development of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus[4][5][6] and was a member of the Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board.[7]

  1. ^ Josee Dechene and Bob Brouse, "Canada's Arctic Sovereignty" Archived 2014-08-19 at the Wayback Machine The Water Chronicles, June 23, 2010.
  2. ^ "Canada Research Chairs announced « on Campus News". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  3. ^ "U of S researchers named to Royal Society of Canada". University of Saskatchewan.
  4. ^ Affairs, Design - Communications and Public. "UW Daily Bulletin, October 17, 2006". www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca.
  5. ^ "Home - Waterloo News". 26 June 2012.
  6. ^ Affairs, Design - Communications and Public. "UW Daily Bulletin, March 5, 2007". www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca.
  7. ^ University of Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board Members