| Jean-Claude Guédon | |
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Jean-Claude Guédon at Writers' and Literary Translators' International Conference (Stockholm, June 30, 2008)
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| Born | 1943 Le Havre, France |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | history of sciences |
| Alma mater | Clarkson University University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Jean-Claude Guédon (born 1943 in Le Havre, France) is a Quebec-based academic.[1]
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In 1960-1, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York (U.S.).[2] He went on to study chemistry at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York and finally earned a Ph.D. in history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974.[3]
He began his career at Glendon College (York University) in Toronto, Ontario in 1970 and 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.[4]
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).[4] From 2002 until 2006, he was a member of OSI's Information Program sub-board. Since 2003, he is a member of the Advisory Board of eIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries).[5] In 2006 he was elected (until November 2008) Vice-President of the Canadian Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His portfolio is "dissemination of research".[6]
He has advised numerous governmental bodies, including the Ministère de la Recherche (France) for their e-publication project in the humanities and the social sciences; the Agence de la francophonie for matters pertaining to new technologies; the Quebec Minister of Communication in charge of the information highway; and the Quebec Ministry of education for the integration of the new technologies into the curriculum.[7]
He was also named "Leiter Lecturer" at the National Library of Medicine in 1998.[8] He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991)[9] and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory.[10] He has also won a few prizes such as Prix International Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996)[11] and the Excellence Prize of the Society for Digital Humanities (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005.[12]