University Affairs team

  • Editor: Peggy Berkowitz
  • Deputy Editor: Léo Charbonneau
  • Web Editor: Tara Fraser
  • Publisher: Christine Tausig Ford
  • Production: Dick Seldenthuis
  • Design: Randy Murray
  • Circulation and subscriptions: Stella Mazzarolo
  • Advertising:
    • Career Ads (print and web) : Cindy Lapensée
    • Web banner advertising : Glen Ashworth
    • Editorial display : Glen Ashworth, Martin Seto (Reflex Media Sales) 
  • Translation: Geneviève Legault, Marjie Brown, Idem Traduction
  • Art Direction, print: Underline Studio
  • Art Direction, Web: ecentricarts inc.

Our Editorial Team

Peggy Berkowitz joined University Affairs in 1994 as associate editor, after 15 years in print and radio journalism, including seven years as a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal. As editor of University Affairs since 2001, Peggy improved the magazine’s already strong coverage of Canadian universities, recruiting a diverse and talented roster of contributors from across the university community and beyond.

In 2000, Léo Charbonneau joined University Affairs as senior staff writer and was appointed deputy editor three years later. His career in journalism includes 10 years with the Medical Post as Montreal editor and features editor. He proposed writing the official University Affairs blog, Margin Notes, partly as a way to strengthen the magazine’s relationship with our readers.

Go to the Margin Notes blog.

Tara Fraser came on board as web editor in October 2009, to manage both our website and our coverage of academic careers. Formerly an edimaster at SOScuisine.com, she was previously a web editor at Yellow Pages Group in Montreal.

Other contributors

Carolyn Steele has regularly contributed to the University Affairs online career section for the past two years. Formerly our Dr. Jobs columnist, Carolyn now takes the helm of our new career blog, Career Sense. Carolyn has advised graduate students for the past ten years as career development coordinator at York University where she is also a PhD student.

Go to the Career Sense blog.

Our occasional contributors to University Affairs are too numerous to mention. Our regular contributors include:

  • Rosanna Tamburri
  • Moira Farr
  • Tim Johnson
  • Anne Mullens
  • Tim Lougheed
  • Hannah Hoag
  • Josée Descôteaux
  • Yves Lusignan
  • Allison Lawlor
  • Harriet Eisenkraft
  • Alan MacEachern
  • Daniel Drolet

Awards

University Affairs counts several writing and editing awards among its recent honours.  In 2009 Léo Charbonneau won the Best Blog Canadian Online Publishing Award for his blog, Margin Notes.

In 2006, journalist Michael Smith won the Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism from sanofi Pasteur and Canadians for Health Research for his article “A scientific whodunit” (University Affairs, February 2005). The jury said Michael “captured three decades of scientific endeavour with features that included human drama, investigative curiosity, and pharmaceutical outcome.”

In 2005, Harriet Eisenkraft won the Award for Excellence in Post-secondary Education Journalism from the Canadian Association of University Teachers for two articles, “In a family way” (June-July 2004) and “Academic couples” (November 2004). CAUT said Harriet’s work “has presented us with new insights into a complex issue and has provoked us to think of ways we can find solutions to make academic work more family-friendly.”