BIOGRAPHICAL DATA:

Jean A. Laponce

Professor of political science

University address:

Dept of Political Science
C472 - 1866 Main Mall
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1
phone: 604 822 2832
fax: 604 822 5540
Email: jlaponce@interchange.ubc.ca

Home address: 604 - 4101 Yew Street.
Vancouver, B.C. V6L 3B7
phone: 604 731 082

.email:<jlaponce@interchange.ubc.ca>

web: <http://www.politics.ubc.ca/laponce

DEGREES

Paris Lycée Carnot - baccalauréat 1943
Institut d'Etudes Politiques - Paris. Diploma 1947
University of California, Los Angeles. Ph.D. 1955

University of British Columbia, LLD honoris causa 2003

UNIVERSITY CAREER

University of Santa Clara, 1955

University of British Columbia, since 1956

University of Ottawa, professeur invité‚ 1992-2002

Aichi Shukutoku University, instructor in the Language and Culture section of the Graduate Program in Communication, 1994-97.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

.Executive Council of the North Western Political Science Association, 1961-1964
.Executive Council of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1963-65; 1966-68
.Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association 1966-70; 1970-73
.Executive Council of the Social Science Research Council, 1966-1969
.Executive Council of the Inter University Consortium for Political
Research, 1969-72
.President of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1972-73
.President of the International Political Science Association, 1973-76
.Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1974
.Council of Academy of humanities and social sciences of the Royal Society of Canada, 1981-84
.Advisory Publications Committee of the SSFC, 1978-81
.Co-editor of the International Political Science Review, (1985-2003)
.President of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada 1988-91
.Director of the Institute of Interethnic Relations Political Science,
University of Ottawa, 1993-2001.

AWARDS

.Barry Guggenheim Fellowship 1985-97

.UBC Killam research prize 1988

.Book prize of the SSFC for 'Langue et territoire' 1990

.IPSA Karl Deutsch distinction for interdisciplinary research, 2001.

RECENT PUBLIC SERVICE

. member of the Carrington-Kissinger mediation team to South Africa, 1994.

. organized with John Meisel with funding from Foreign Affairs a meeting of Croatian and Serbian academics in Ottawa as a follow up to the UN sponsored Vienna conference of January 95.

. consultant on methodology for the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation 97-03.