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FASS Faculty Genevieve LeBaron and Andrew Wister named 2024 Distinguished SFU Professors
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences faculty members Genevieve LeBaron and Andrew Wister were recently named Distinguished SFU Professors.
A joint initiative of SFU’s Provost and Vice-President Academic and the Vice-President, Research and International, the Distinguished SFU Professor program recognizes SFU research faculty members of distinction who have achieved exceptional performance and distinguished accomplishments relative to their rank and years of service.
Genevieve LeBaron
School of Public Policy
Internationally renowned expert on modern slavery, Genevieve LeBaron investigates labour and employment in the global economy. Her research centres on the business and governance dynamics of forced labour, modern slavery, and human trafficking within global supply chains.
Honoured for her significant contributions to scholarship, LeBaron was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Scientists, and Artists in 2020. She advises governments and international organizations on strategies to prevent and eliminate forced labor and human trafficking. She is a principal investigator of ReStructure Lab, a collaboration across SFU, Stanford and Yale universities, supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, Humanity United Action and Freedom Fund. She also serves on the UK Parliament’s Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Advisory Group.
Andrew Wister
Department of Gerontology
Globally recognized expert on aging research, Andrew Wister helps us stay healthy, socially connected and resilient as we age. His research explores the health patterns of baby boomers, adaptation to multimorbidity, the dynamics of social isolation, including pandemic resilience and responses, and how older adults adjust to their environments.
As a faculty member of SFU’s Department of Gerontology for over three decades and current director of the Gerontology Research Centre, Wister has authored over 150 highly-cited peer-reviewed articles, along with numerous books, monographs, chapters, reports, and conference presentations. Wister is also the SFU principal investigator leading the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
In 2014, Wister received the Victor Marshall Distinguished Member Award from the Canadian Association on Gerontology. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and previous Chair of the National Seniors Council of Canada.