Jean-Claude Guédon
Canadian educator
Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in Le Havre, France) is a Quebec-based academic.
Education
In 1960–61, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York (US). He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York and earned a Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974.
Academic career
He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970. He has been a professor at the Université de Montréal since 1973, first in the Institut d'histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences and, since 1987, in the Département de littérature comparée. He is a long-time member of the Internet Society serving as co-chair of the program committee in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and member of the same committee in 1997, 1999 and 2002.
Scholarly activities
Between 1998 and 2003, he was chair of the advisory board for CNSLP (Canadian National Site Licence Project, now known as CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge network). From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of the Open Society Institute's Information Program sub-board. From 2003 to 2007 he was a member of the advisory board of eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries). In 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-president of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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