Dr. David Morrison

Professor David Morrison, a long-time member of the Politics Department, was the founding chair of Trent’s Comparative Development Studies Program, which was established in 1976 and evolved into the current International Development Studies Program. He has served in a variety of teaching and administrative leadership roles in the University including provost and dean of arts and science, director of the Trent International Program, director of Trent’s CIDA-funded program on watershed restoration in Ecuador and Mexico, and director of the Trent-in-Ecuador Program. He has also been acting president and vice-chancellor, interim vice-president (academic), and president of the Trent University Faculty Association. Dr. Morrison authored Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance, as well as two other books and numerous articles on development issues.  He is a past president of the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development. Upon his retirement from Trent in 2007, he received the University’s Eminent Service Award for his exceptional contributions to the university.

Dr. Alena Heitlinger

David Morrison’s wife of thirty years, Professor Alena Heitlinger of Trent’s Sociology Department is the author of eight books and numerous articles, publishing widely on feminist, demographic, health, employment, child care, migration, and ethnic issues in the former Czechoslovakia (where she was born), the Soviet Union, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and the post-communist Czech Republic. Her most recent book, In the Shadows of the Holocaust and Communism: Czech and Slovak Jews Since 1945, was published in 2006.  The holder of several research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she was the recipient of the Trent University Distinguished Research Award in 1999-2000. She has twice served as chair of the Sociology Department.