Vice-President Academic and Provost
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Dr. Reeta TremblayPhone: 250-721-7626 Fax: 250-721-7216 |
Administrative and professional experience
Dr. Reeta Tremblay assumed the duties of Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Victoria on January 1, 2011. She previously served as Vice President (Academic) and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Pro Tempore at Memorial University in Newfoundland from July 1, 2009 to October 2010. Dr. Tremblay also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Memorial from August 2006 to June 2009. Prior to her move to Memorial, she was a political science professor at Concordia University in Montreal and chaired the Political Science Department from 1998-2005.
Dr. Tremblay has an MPhil from the Jawharlal Nehru University India and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Her areas of research include: Comparative Politics and Comparative Federalism, South Asian Political Economy, Nation-State and Secessionist Movements in India and Indian Popular Cinema. She is at present engaged in three projects: a) the relationship between the regime type of the kin state and the direction of a political insurgency in a neighbouring country in South Asia (SSHRC- funded project); b) negotiating and renegotiating citizenship by first and second generation immigrants in Victoria, BC (with Christien Lieb and Grace Wong Sneddon at the University of Victoria); c) race, class, gender, and attitudes about immigration: evidence from a survey experiment (with Amanda Bittner, Memorial University, NL).
Her recent publications include “Newfoundland and Labrador: Creating Change in the Twenty-First Century” (2011) “Kashmir's Secessionist Movement Resurfaces: Ethnic Identity, Community Competition, and the State” in Asian Survey (December 2009), Human Rights: A General Overview (2008), Mapping the Political Landscape (2004, 2006) and articles and reviews in many journals. Her work is widely reviewed and cited—in particular her writings on Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations, a subject on which she is widely considered to be the leading North American expert. She has been frequently called upon for her expertise on South Asia and Afghanistan by governmental agencies as well as the media. She has been a member of the editorial boards of several prestigious journals on Political Science and Asian Studies. Dr. Tremblay has been recognized for her exceptional teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and received the Concordia University Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2002.
In the community, she has held several distinguished professional positions such as the President of the Canadian Council of Area Studies of Learned Societies, President of the Canadian Association for Asian Studies, Chair of the India Studies Committee of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute of Canada; and a board member for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She is currently President of the Canadian Political Science Association.
Committee membership
- Chair, Deans' Council
- Chair, Senate Planning Committee
- Chair, Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Awards Committee
- Chair, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery Advisory Committee
- Chair, Blue and Gold Awards Committee
- Chair, University Committee on Information Technology
- Member/Chair of search committees for Associate Vice-Presidents Academic and Legal Affairs, Deans, Executive Director of Cooperative Education, Director of the Learning and Teaching Centre, University Librarian, Administrative Registrar, Director of Institutional Planning and Analysis
- Member of Senate
- Member, Campus Development Committee
- Member of Planning and Priorities Committee
- Member, President's Advisory Council
- Member, President's Executive Council
- Member, Negotiations Coordinating Committee
Portfolio
Reporting to the president and vice-chancellor, the vice-president academic and provost is the senior vice-president. When the president is absent or unable to act, the vice-president academic and provost is acting president. The vice-president academic and provost has overall responsibility for all of the activities of the office of the VP Academic and Provost (VPAC).
The heads of academic units report to and through the vice-president academic and provost; the reporting relationships are outlined in our organizational chart. Through the board of governors, the vice-president academic and provost has responsibility for faculty appointments, faculty salary awards and faculty development. Through the director, she also has responsibility for the operation of the Learning and Teaching Centre. The adviser on information technology and the adviser on women report to the vice-president academic and provost. All human resource matters related to UVic faculty are the provost's responsibility, including approval of all forms of leave.