Research chairs
The Faculty of Arts is the proud home of research chairs who are redefining boundaries and making groundbreaking discoveries.
The Canada Research Chairs Program invests approximately $265 million per year to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds. Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences.
The remaining chairs are specific to the University of Calgary.
![Wendi Adamek headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/wendi%20adamek.jpeg?itok=YgVfhNu5)
Wendi Adamek
Chair: Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies
![Maria Bakardjieva](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2019-03/mariabakardjieva.jpg?itok=0ms3DcdZ)
Maria Bakardjieva
Chair: Communication and Media Studies
![Brandy Callahan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2018-11/bcallahancrc.jpg?itok=J70iKaji)
Brandy Callahan
Chair: CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Adult Clinical Neuropsychology
![Portrait of Jackson Cone](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/Jackson%20Cone0318%20copy.jpg?itok=J_eY5VxK)
Jackson Cone
Chair: Tier II CRC in Computational Behavioural Neuroscience
Deinera Exner-Cortens
Chair: CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Health Promotion
![Abdolmohammad Kazemipur headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/abdie%20Kazemipur.png?itok=-pWkAm75)
![Jennifer Leason](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2021-01/LEASON.png?itok=axJXFRtt)
Jennifer Leason
Chair: CIHR Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Maternal Child Wellness
![Sheri Madigan headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/Sheri_Madigan.png?itok=HOpZQOnu)
Sheri Madigan
Chair: SSHRC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development
![Amanda Melin](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2018-11/melin.jpg?itok=bkDMpL9R)
Amanda Melin
Chair: NSERC Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology
![Daniel McGrath portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/McGrath%20Pic4_1.jpg?itok=gv-Pe13V)
Daniel McGrath
Chair: Alberta Gambling Research Institute Chair
![Erica Myers headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/erica-myers.jpg?itok=N8WZ-638)
![Carolyn Muessig headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-12/carolyn%20muessig.jpg?itok=R5queAl0)
![Melanie Noel](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2021-10/170818_Melanie-Noel-001.jpg?h=55594754&itok=q10tqIv7)
![Kenneth Waters](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2018-11/waters.jpg?itok=FFzuv-3v)
Kenneth Waters
Chair: SSHRC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Logic and Philosophy of Science
![Keith Yeates](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2018-11/150525_EDIT_Keith_Yeates-0002.jpg?h=302b65e1&itok=dpdJl6Ts)