Emőke Szathmáry

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Residence Winnipeg, MB Name Emoke Szathmary		Citizenship Canada
Born January 25, 1944 (age 80) Hungary ( 1944-01-25 ) Fields physical anthropologyhuman genetics Institutions Professor, Dept Med Genetics and Biochem, Univ Man, Winnipeg, 1996-Prof, Dept Antrop, Univ Man, Winnipeg, 1996-Pres & Vice Chancellor, Univ Man, Winnipeg, 1996-2008prof biology, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1994-1996prof antrop, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1994-1996provost & vpres, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1994-1996hon prof, Dept Zool, Univ Western Ont, London, 1989-1994prof, Dept Antrop, Univ Western Ont, London, 1989-1994dean, Fac Social Sci, Univ Western Ont, London, 1989-1994assoc mem, Dept Biol, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1985-1988chmn, Dept Antrop, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1985-1988prof antrop, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1983-1988assoc prof antrop, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1978-1983asst prof antrop, McMaster Univ, Hamilton, 1975-1978asst prof antrop, Univ Trent, Peterborough, 1974-1975chair, Council Western Canada University Press 2007-2008co-chmn, Adv Comm Diabetes, Man Min Health 2000-2003exec Comm & bd Assoc Univ & Colls Canada 2000-200JW Dafoe Found 1996-2008Assoc Univ & Coll Canada 2007-2008Manitoba Museum Found 1997-2006Can Genet Dis Netwrk, 2003-2007Prime Min Adv Com Sci & Tech 2005-2007Ed-in-Chief Am J Physl Anthropol 1995-2001; Ybk Physl Anthropol 1987-1991exec Comm Am Assoc Physl Anthropol 1987-1991, 1995-2001Hum Biol Council, 1985-1989pres Hum Biol Council, 1990- 1992Can Assoc Physl Anthropol 1975-1979 Alma mater University of Toronto, BA anthrop 1968, PhD anthrop 1974 Known for genetics of the indigenous peoples of North America, focusing on the causes of type-2 diabetes, the genetic relationships within and between North American and Asian peoples, and the microevolution of subarctic and arctic populations. Her field research involved Ottawa, Ojibwa and Dogrib peoples in Ontario and the Northwest Territories.

Emőke J.E. Szathmáry, CM OM FRSC (born January 25, 1944 in Hungary) was the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba, 1996–2008. Dr. Szathmary was trained as a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human genetics.

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Dr. Szathmáry’s first administrative post was as chairman of the department of anthropology at McMaster University, a position she left to become Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Western Ontario. She left this position to serve as Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario before going to her position at the University of Manitoba. Szathmáry was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2004, she was named one of Canada's top 100 most powerful women by the Women's Executive Network and the Richard Ivey School of Business. In 2005, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was named also as a Distinguished Lecturer by the American Anthropological Association, which is the highest recognition given by the anthropological discipline for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship.

Publications (partial list)

Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, Takeru Akazawa (Editor), Emoke J. E. Szathmáry (Editor)

Out of Asia: peopling the Americas and the Pacific, Journal of Pacific History, 1985, Robert Kirk, Emöke J. E. Szathmary, editors

Szathmáry, Emőke J. E. (1993). "INVITED EDITORIAL - mtDNA and the Peopling of the Americas" (PDF). Am. J. Hum. Genet. 53 (4): 793–799. PMC 1682381. PMID 7692724. Retrieved 2011-12-07.

Szathmáry (1981). "Genetic markers in Siberian and northern North American populations". Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 24: 37–73. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330240503.

Szathmáry (1984). "Human biology of the arctic". Handbook of North American Indians: 64–71.

Szathmáry, Emőke (1979). "Blood groups of Siberians, Eskimos, and subarctic and northwest coast indians: the problem of first origins and genetic relations". The First Americans: Origins, Affinities, and Adaptations.

Szathmáry, Emöke J.E. (2011). "David Damas (1926–2010)". Arctic. Arctic Institute of North America. 64 (1). Retrieved 2011-12-07. (obituary)

Szathmáry, Emőke J. E. (22 October 2006). "Address to the Commemoration in Winnipeg of the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising". Canada-Hungary Educational Foundation / Fondation éducative Canada-Hongrie (CHEF). Retrieved 2011-12-07.

Little, Michael A.; Kennedy, Kenneth A. R. (eds.). Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century. contributor

Szathmary, J.E. (1986). "Diabetes in arctic and subarctic populations undergoing acculturation". Collegium Antropologium. 10: 145–158.

Szathmary, J.E. (1990). "Diabetes in Amerindian populations: The Dogrib studies". In Swedlund, A.C.; Armelagos, G.J. Disease in populations in transition. New York: Bergin & Garvey. pp. 75–103.

Szathmary, J.E. (1994). "Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus among aboriginal North Americans". Annual Review of Anthropology. 23: 457–482. doi:10.1146/annurev.anthro.23.1.457.

Szathmary, J.E. (1994). "Factors that influence the onset of diabetes in Dogrib Indians of the Canadian Northwest Territories". In Joe, J.R.; Young, R.S. Diabetes as a disease of civilization. Berlin: Moutoun de Gruyter. pp. 229–267.