Stuart Shanker, York University

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Bio/Research

Stuart Shanker is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology

at York University and Director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative

at York University. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Marian Buck Fellowship

at Christ Church.  A...


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Bio/Research

Stuart Shanker is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology

at York University and Director of the Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative

at York University. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Marian Buck Fellowship

at Christ Church.  Among his awards are an Iszaak Walton Killam Fellowship; and

the Walter L Gordon Fellowship at York University. He has received many grants,

among them a $7,000,000 grant from the Harris Steel Foundation to establish MEHRI,

a state-of-the-art cognitive and social neuroscience centre.

Among his monographs are Early Years Study II (with J. Fraser Mustard and Margaret McCain, 2007).

Dr. Shanker has served as the Director of the Council of Human Development for the

past ten years; Director of the Canada-Cuba Research Alliance for the past six

years; and he was the first President of the Council of Early Child Development

in Canada. Over the past decade he has served as an advisor on early child development

to government organizations across Canada and the US and countries around the

world, among them Australia, Colombia, England, Ireland, Macedonia, Mexico, Northern

Ireland, Peru, and Romania.



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