J03 - Roundtable - Celebrating the Career of Dr. Tracy Summerville
Date: Jun 2 | Time: 10:30am to 12:00pm | Location:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Heather Smith (University of Northern British Columbia)
Celebrating a Career Well-Lived: A Panel in Honour of Dr. Tracy Summerville:
Heather Smith (University of Northern British Columbia)
Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto)
Charles Smith (University of Saskatchewan)
Jason Lacharite (University of Northern British Columbia)
John Young (Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
Tracy Summerville (University of Northern British Columbia)
Abstract: This roundtable brings together scholars to celebrate the career of Dr. Tracy Summerville. Dr. Summerville retired from the Department of Political Science at the University of Northern British Columbia in June 2019. The panel will highlight her contributions to research on British Columbian provincial politics which includes her award winning co-edited volume, with Dr. Jason Lacharite, The Campbell Revolution (McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2017). Not only was Dr. Summerville a researcher who wrote about the province she called home, she was an exceptional teacher and mentor. Her teaching changed the lives of many of the students and she inspired her colleagues by modelling a compassion for students that was unparalleled. She taught from the heart and that was obvious to any who witnessed her teaching. Her deep commitment to student centred teaching translated into hours and hours of service, in a variety of roles, at UNBC and within the discipline. Dr. Summerville was also deeply connected to the community in which she lived and was an active public intellectual in the City of Prince George where she wrote for the local newspaper and regularly moderated all candidates forums. Her connections to community were further deepened through work with various local societies as associations.
The roundtable will be run like a conversation and will include Dr. Summerville as a participant. Other participants will share their experiences with Dr. Summerville as colleagues, former students, and co-authors and will pose questions that help us all to understand the ethos that underpinned a career well-lived.