Linda Cardinal | |
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| Born | July 13, 1959 Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Awards | Order of Canada Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA., MA., University of Ottawa PhD., Sociology, 1987, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
| Thesis | Autonomie et contestation: étude des mouvements étudiants et féministes aux Etats-Unis et en France, 1950-1975 (1988) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Science |
| Institutions | University College Dublin University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 University of Ottawa |
| Main interests | language minority issues, language policies and language development |
Linda Cardinal OC FRSC (born July 13, 1959) is a Franco-Ontarian political scientist. She is a University Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie and Public Policies at the University of Ottawa. Cardinal was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 and honoured with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Member of the Order of Canada. She was also the first coordinator of the francophone studies program at the University of Ottawa.