Gregory Kealey

Dr. Kealey has lived in Atlantic Canada for more than half his life. He has a strong sense of the region's history and is extremely committed to the region and the role of Atlantic universities in promoting economic and social development. He joined Memorial's history department in 1981, became a University Research Professor in 1992 – a designation recognizing the university's most successful researchers – and was appointed Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in 1997. Earlier he taught at Dalhousie University for eight years. Dr. Kealey holds a BA in modern history from the University of Toronto (1970) and master's (1971) and doctoral (1977) degrees from the University of Rochester.

The Vice-President's areas of specialization are Canadian social and labour history. His contributions to scholarship include serving as founding editor of Labour/Le Travail for 21 years and as general editor of the Canadian Social History Series with over 30 volumes published to date. He has published four books, edited 26 others, written 22 chapters for books, published 32 articles in refereed journals with 20 articles reprinted, and delivered over 200 papers and commentaries. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Kealey has received numerous grants, fellowships, prizes and appointments, including visiting professorships and being named Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1983 and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999.

Among the Board positions he has held are President of the Canadian Historical Association and of the Social Sciences Federation of Canada and acting co-president of the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada. In March 2005 he was appointed to the governing body of the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada. He served as a member of SSHRC's Executive Committee and as Chair of its Standing Committee on Research Support. He is also a member of the Industry Canada University Advisory Committee and of the National Research Council's Institute of Information Technology Advisory Board.

In his role as VP Research at UNB he chairs the Board of Enterprise UNB, the university's incubator facility. He also chairs the Advisory Boards of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, the Canadian Rivers Institute, the Chronic Illness Research Institute, and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering. Outside UNB, he is President of Knowledge Park Inc., a Fredericton Science Park, and serves on the boards of BioAtlantech, King's Landing, Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Potato Research Cluster, Research Productivity Council, and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.