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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies sociology Professor Emeritus\u00a0Gordon Darroch, born in Calgary in 1940, died peacefully in the company of his family at Kensington Hospice in Toronto on Aug. 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1967, Prof. Darroch accepted a faculty position in the Department of Sociology at 快播视频, where he built a career as a social historian. He was a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and completed his master\u2019s and doctoral degrees at Duke University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Widely recognized for his expertise in the statistical study of census data, Prof. Darroch served as the principal investigator and team leader of the Centre for the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project at 快播视频 from 2002-08. Acknowledged as a pioneer in the development and dissemination of national historical micro-data, he published numerous studies of social mobility in Canada. He was the co-director of the academic journal Histoire sociale\/Social History <\/em>from 1988 to 2004, and the editor and prime mover behind the publication of The Dawn of Canada\u2019s Century: Hidden Histories<\/em> (McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2014), which is a major collection of Canadian population studies of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Darroch\u2019s dedication to pedagogy as well as to scholarship led to two teaching awards: the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations\u2019 Award for Outstanding Contributions to University Teaching (1992-93) and the Ontario Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Award for Teaching Excellence (1993-94). He also received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at Duke University\u2019s Canadian Studies Centre in 1991-92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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