- Home
- About
- Past Series
- Directions & Parking
- Television Schedule
- Live Video Stream
- Downloadable Posters
- Feedback
- College of Forestry
1.5 SAF Continuing Education
Credit, Category 1, earned by
attending the lecture.
Dr. Marchak is Professor and Dean Emerita of Arts, University of British Columbia, past president of the Humanities and Social Sciences Academy of the Royal Society of Canada, formerly a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Centre for Advanced Research at UBC, and currently Senior Fellow, Centre of International Relations, Institute for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Columbia.
She has done extensive research in three areas: resource industries and communities, with emphasis on forestry and fisheries; political ideologies and their relationship to economic conditions; and massive crimes against humanity such as genocide and war crimes. Her recent books are about these crimes: Reigns of Terror (2003) and God’s Assassins. State Terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s (1999).
Her book publications on ideologies and economy include: The Integrated Circus. The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets (1991), Ideological Perspectives on Canada (1976, 1981, 1987), and In Whose Interests (1980).
Her work on resource industries includes: Falldown. Forest Policy in British Columbia (1999, with student co-authors); Logging the Globe (1996); Uncommon Property. The Fishing and Fish Processing Industries in British Columbia(1987, with co-authors); and Green Gold. The Forest Industry in British Columbia (1983). She has also written numerous articles, chapters, reviews, proceedings papers, and more recently, web-essays on forestry and resource policies.
Dr. Marchak is currently undertaking research in Cambodia, Rwanda, Serbia and Bosnia for a comparative study of how societies deal with histories that include massive crimes against humanity, and further research on the relationship between natural resources and conflict.
COF Facebook