John O. Stubbs is a

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. He was president of

Trent University Trent University is a public liberal arts university in Peterborough, Ontario, with a satellite campus in Oshawa, which serves the Regional Municipality of Durham. Founded in 1964, the university is known for its Oxbridge college system, sma ...

and

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

. Stubbs began his career as a historian and political scientist, specializing in the history of 20th century

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and media. He distinguished himself as a teacher and administrator at the

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, serving in various positions including associate dean of arts. Stubbs was appointed president of

in 1987, a post that he held until 1993, when he was appointed for a five-year term as president of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His term was renewed in April 1997. In 1997, he was forced to resign for his mishandling of a controversial sexual harassment case. Since then he has been a member of Simon Fraser's history department. In 1998, he was appointed a board member of the

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Education

#B.A. in modern history,

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, 1966; M.Sc. in international history, the

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, 1967; #D.Phil.,

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, 1973. #Lecturer,

, 1967–1969. #Professor,

, 1973–1986. #Visiting lecturer (1979), visiting fellow (1986), St. Catherine's (Oxford).

Sources

*Ian Mulgrew, "President’s role in sex harassment case scars his career", Vancouver Province, 19 July 1997, B3 *"U of G's Len Conolly new Trent president", Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 9 July 1993, B4 *Robert Matas, "Stubbs resigns post as SFU president", The Globe and Mail, 13 December 1997, A9 *Sarah Schmidt, "Scholarship fund failed, report says: Chretien legacy project", National Post, 6 November 2003, A4. *http://www.sfu.ca/history/stubbs.htm "SFU President appointed to second five year term," SFU News, April 3, 1997, Vol 8 No 7, https://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfnews/1997/April3/president.html Alumni of the London School of Economics Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academic staff of Simon Fraser University 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Presidents of Trent University 21st-century Canadian historians {{Canada-historian-stub

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