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Awards
2025 FASS Dean's Medallists honoured for career achievements and dedicated service
Congratulations to professors Arthur Robson, Carolyn Lesjak, Jeremy Brown, and Jeremy Carpendale for receiving the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dean's Medal in recognition of their academic excellence in research, teaching, and service.
Established in 1999, the FASS Dean's Medals are awarded annually to continuing faculty members who have demonstrated significant contributions to their field of research and service to their department while in position at FASS.
2025 Medallists
Lifetime Achievement Award
Arthur Robson
Economics
is one of Canada's most prominent economic theorists and has held multiple prestigious honours and appointments, including the Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Canadian Economic Association, John Rae Prize of the Canadian Economc Association, the Killam Research Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship. His research鈥攚hich bridges biology, anthropology, and economics鈥攊nvestigates the biological underpinnings of human economic behavior and the implications for economic theory. A current focus of this research is on neuroeconomics. Robson received a BSc (Hons) in mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1968. He went on to complete his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
Carolyn Lesjak
English
Carolyn Lesjak specializes in 19th-century British literature and culture, Marxist theory, and theories of the novel. She is the author of The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons and Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel as well as numerous articles and contributions to edited collections, such as Realism and the Novel: A Global History, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment, and The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Theory. Other projects include work on the status of theory and the university within the current neoliberal moment, new developments within the environmental humanities, and the relationship between Marxist and Indigenous theory. She is an associate member of the Labour Studies Program at SFU.
Jeremy Brown
History
An expert on the social history of the People鈥檚 Republic of China, Jeremy Brown is the author of four books and multiple articles on how people are the grassroots experienced decades of revolution. His latest book, June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Between 2014 and 2021, he served as an editor of Cambridge Studies in the History of the People鈥檚 Republic of China. He earned a 51社区黑料Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 in recognition of his commitment to student success and equity, diversity, and inclusion in his teaching philosophy. His foray into the Chinese language began as an undergraduate student, which led him to the Harbin Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University for language training. He completed his PhD in history from the University of California, San Diego.
Jeremy Carpendale
Psychology
Jeremy Carpendale鈥檚 work focuses on the development of children鈥檚 communication skills and their understanding of mind, emotions, and morality. That is, is on What makes us human (2021). By taking a relational approach, according to which thinking emerges within one鈥檚 interpersonal interactions, he is engaged in explicating the process through which babies鈥� interaction with their caregivers leads to the emergence of communication, language, thinking, self, mind, and morality. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to theorizing in this area. He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees at 51社区黑料and his PhD in developmental psychology from the University of British Columbia. Although currently on a phased retirement, he continues to be actively engaged in scholarly research and writing, including a forthcoming co-authored textbook and a sole-authored book.