Provost and Vice-President, Academic
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Kathleen McCrone
Acting Provost and Vice-President, Academic

Kathleen McCrone is the Acting Provost and Vice-President, Academic of the University of Windsor. She was appointed to the University of Windsor faculty in 1968, and retired as Professor Emeritus in 2006. She served from 1978-81 as Head of the Department of History, and from 1990-2002 as Dean or Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, College of Arts and Human Sciences, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. After an administrative leave, during which she did research in England, Dr. McCrone served as Director of the University's Humanities Research Group, 2004-06, a position she also held on an acting basis in 2007 and as a member of the History faculty returned to teaching undergraduate courses in the history of England.

Dr. McCrone's research speciality since she was a doctoral student has been the history of women in Victorian England. She has published in the areas of female philanthropy, the education of women, the women's movement, and women and sport, supported by several grants from the SSHRC. Her current research involves women and music, c. 1850-1920, and the suffragettes and sport.

Dr. McCrone has been active in professional service, serving for many years on the University of Windsor Senate and Board of Governors,and on the Council of the Canadian Historical Association, the Council of Ontario Universities, and as Chair of Canadian Council of Deans of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the realm of community service, she has been on the Board of Directors of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra since 1993 (Chair, 2001-03), the Board of the Arts Council of Windsor, and the Board of the London Goodenough Association of Canada (Chair, 2005-07).
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Kathleen McCrone began serving on July 1, 2009, as the university's chief academic officer, Provost and Vice-President, Academic.

Degrees: B.A. (Hons), University of Saskatchewan, M.A., Ph.D., New York University, History