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Dr. Frits Pannekoek
Dr. Frits Pannekoek
Professor
Contact information
Email: fritsp@athabascau.ca
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Dr. Pannekoek received his B.A (Hons) and MA from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. from Queen's Kingston. He has had a wide professional experience as Head of Historical Research for Parks Canada, Prairie Region, Director of Historic Sites and Archives for Alberta, Director of Information Resources and Chief Librarian, University of Calgary and President Athabasca University. He was a Director of the Canadian Association of Academic Libraries, President of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals, President of the UNESCO affiliated International Council of Distance Universities, President of the Calgary Civic Trust, and a member of the Board of the Mikai'sto Foundation and the research committee at the Blood Tribe's Red Crow College where he is known as "Loads Gun." His research interests include Western Canadian history, Metis history, Alberta history, the new information digital age, Canadian social history, heritage policy, post secondary management theory, and distance education. For his work in distance education he received an honorary doctorate from the University of South African. He is also an honorary Professor at Tianjin University, PRC. He was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2017 for his work in digitizing Alberta history, and the creation of a network of heritage facilities in the Province.
His most current publications are on residential schools and on the contribution that Indigenous people have made to the changes in Canadian business. He is currently writing a book on heritage policy development in Alberta.
Research interests
- Alberta history
- Canadian social history
- Indigenous history
- Metis history
- Heritage preservation
- Digitization
- Post secondary institutional management
- Distance education
- Canadian art history
- British Imperial history
Educational credentials
- B.A.(Hons) University of Alberta 1969
- M.A. University of Alberta 1970
- Ph.D. Queen's University 1974
- D.Phil, (Hon), University of South Africa 2017
- Certificate: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Leadership Institute for Senior University Administrators, Aug. 2007.
- Certificate: Senior University Administrator Course, University of Manitoba, Banff Centre, 1999.
- Certificate: Inter University Consortium for Political Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour (Computer statistical methods and quantification in the social sciences), 1976.