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Metta Spenser
A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
1. Personal
2. Degrees
3. Employment
4. Honours
5. Professional Affiliations and Activities
 Professional Organizations
 Public Affairs Organizations
B. ACADEMIC HISTORY
6. A. Research Endeavours
6. B. Research, Publication, and Conference Awards
 Grants Received
6. C. Patents
C. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
7. Refereed Publications
A. Articles
 Articles in refereed journals
B. Books
 Refereed chapters in books
C. Books Edited
D. Editorial Work on Other Publications
E. Book reviews in refereed journals
8. Non-Refereed Publications
. Non-refereed articles
 Peace Magazine articles
 Project Save the World video series
 Other non-refereed articles
A. Non-refereed chapters in books
9. Papers Presented at meetings and symposia.
10. Invited lectures, public education events
 Participation in other professional and public affairs conferences not noted elsewhere
D. LIST OF COURSES
11. A. Undergraduate Courses Taught
 Undergraduate courses taught since 1985
11. B. Graduate teaching and supervision since 1983
E. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
12. A. Positions held and service on committees and organizations with the University
12. B. Positions held and service on committees and organizations outside the University of scholarly and civic significance.
12. C. Government Advisory Activities
January 2021
A. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
1. Personal
Metta Spencer
Home: 155 Marlee Avenue
Apt. 201
Toronto, Ontario M6B 4B5
Telephone: (416) 789-2294
Email: mspencer at web.net
Internet: mettaspencer.com; twoaspirinsandacomedy.com; RussianPeaceAndDemocracy.com; zeronuclearweapons.com
University: Department of Sociology
University of Toronto at Mississauga
Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Telephone: (905) 569-4611
Fax: (905) 569-4611
Peace Magazine: Box 248, Station P
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S7
Telephone: (416) 533-7581
Internet: www.peacemagazine.org
2. Degrees
Ph.D. (Sociology) 1969 University of California, Berkeley
Political Behavior of University Students in India. Supervisor: S.M. Lipset
3. Employment
• 1963 Research Assistant, Institute of International Studies, Berkeley. S. M. Lipset, Director. (Research on radical right-wing politics and ethnic conflict.)
• 1963-65 Research Assistant, International Data Library, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. Charles Y. Glock, Director. (Analysis, B’nai B’rith prejudice project.)
• 1965-66 Lecturer, College of the Holy Names, Oakland, California. (Taught research methods, deviance, and theory part time.)
• 1965 Research assistant with William Kornhauser, (summer). Institute of International Studies, Berkeley. (Comparative study of revolutions.)
• 1967 Senior Research Assistant, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. (Research on student politics in India.)
• 1968-69 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston. (Taught Introductory Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Social Change, part time.)
• 1968-69 Research Sociologist, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. (Research on Comparative International Study of Modernization with Alex Inkeles.)
• 1969-71 Research Sociologist, Survey Research Center, University of California, Berkeley. (Research on prejudice among high school students.)
• 1970 Lecturer, California State College, Hayward, California. (Taught research methods part time.)
• 1971 Lecturer, Mills College, Oakland, California. (Taught Introductory Sociology, part time.)
• 1971-76 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus. Member of Graduate Faculty since 1972.
• 1972 Spring Discipline Representative, Department of Sociology, Erindale Campus
• 1975-76 Associate Chairman, Department of Sociology, Erindale Campus
• 1989-91 Associate Chairman, Department of Sociology, Erindale Campus
• 1976-96 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Erindale Campus
• 1997 Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto at Mississauga
• Since 1997 Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
4. Honours
• Canadian Who’s Who.
• International Who’s Who
• International Directory of Distinguished Leadership.
• “Making a World of Difference,” Directory of Women in Canada Specializing in Global Issues.
• Confederation Medal awarded by Governor-General for Service to Canada, 1992.
• Global Citizen Award, United Nations. Awarded by Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario at a celebration of the United Nations Fiftieth Anniversary, 1995.
• Pugwash, with which I (and some 2000 others) serve, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1995.
• Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize, 1997
• United Nations Association in Canada Award, 1999
• Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012
• Anne Goodman Peace Education Award, 2014
• Achievement Award, Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, 2017
• World Citizenship in Action Award, Awarded by World Citizens in Canada, 2019
• Fellow of McLaughlin College, York University, 2020
5. Professional Affiliations and Activities
Professional Organizations
• American Sociological Association (Executive Committee, 1988 91 and Chairman, Nominations Committee, Section on War and Peace, 1988-89.
• Executive Committee, Section on War and Peace, 1989-91. Invited to stand for election as chair, 1994)
• Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
• Humanistic Sociology Association (International Representative, 1983-84)
• Canadian Peace Research and Education Association
• International Sociological Association
• Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development “COPRED”
• (Executive Committee, 1985-89; Chair, Publications Committee 1988-89)
• International Peace Research Association (Invited to serve as director, 1993)
• North American Academy of Arts and Sciences (named Fellow, 2002)
Public Affairs Organizations
• Campaign for a Department of Peace, Toronto Chapter. Executive Committee, 2007 and 2008.
• Canadian Citizens Assembly for the Helsinki Process (Executive Board, 1990-3)
• Canadian Disarmament Information Service (CANDIS) Founding President and Director.
• Canadian Physicians for Global Survival (1986 – present)
• Canadian Pugwash Group (1985 – present. Secretary, 1988-90. Executive Committee 1991-93, Board of Directors, 1993-1998); chair nominating committee 2006, 2009
• Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (1984 – present). Honorary director 2015-present
• Couchiching Institute for Public Affairs.
• Committee for Resolution One, 1983.
• Committee for the Third Track, 1983-84.
• Contact Group for Nonviolence in the Former Soviet Union, 1995-present.
• Corporate Nuclear Concern, Inc. (Director and Secretary, 1989 -1999)
• Group of 78 (1986 – present)
• Helsinki Citizens Assembly, 1990-97. Chair, structure committee, 1992-94
• Hunger Project of Canada (Member, Board of Directors, 1981-83)
• Nonviolence International Canada (Trustee, 2007-present)
• Peace Magazine. Editor-in-Chief since 1985.
• Science for Peace (Executive Officer, 1983-85. Advisory Board, 1987-90; National Board of Directors, 1983-86; 1990-1999; Vice President, 1999-2000, 2014-2015; Executive Committee, 2000-2005, 2007-2010, 2017-2018; President, 2012-2014 and 2015-2017).
• Toronto City Council: Peace Committee Planning Group (1989)
• Toronto/Volgograd Initiative. (Steering Committee 1983-84.)
• Toronto Sesquicentennial Planning Group, 1983.
• United Nations Association (1983 – present)
• United Campuses for Nuclear Disarmament (Canadian Execu