Authors On Campus
- Francis Adu-Febiri, Dr.
- Philip F.W. Bartle, PhD
- Yvonne Blomer
- Clarence Bolt
- Jill Britton
- Larry Hannant
- Angela Henry
- Anita Kess
- Tana M. Kristjanson
- Ross Lambertson
- Carole May
- Jim Sexton
- Joyce Van de Vegte
- Richard Zajchowski
Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri
Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri was born and raised in Ghana, West Africa. After completing an Honours Degree in Sociology at University of Ghana, Francis came to Canada for graduate school. He did his Masters at Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, specializing on Sociology of Tourism. Since 1994 Dr. Adu-Febiri has been teaching Sociology at Camosun College, Victoria. He has just successfully completed a three-year term as the Chair of the Social Sciences Department. Francis is also an Adjunct Professor at University of Victoria. He has taught as a term faculty at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.
Francis has done a number of academic and non-academic presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. He has published extensively on tourism, human factor development, globalization, diversity, racialization and ethnicity. He is the author of the edited collection, First Nations Student Talk Back: Voices of a Learning People. Currently he is looking for a publisher to publish a manuscript he has completed with Everett Ofori on How to Succeed in Canada as a New Immigrant, Refugee or International Student.
Philip F.W. Bartle, PhD
Phil Bartle is a specialist in community empowerment, poverty reduction, micro enterprise, capacity development and community participation methods as they integrate with other key elements of the assistance and development process. Responsibilities have included management, planning, advising, written material production and training positions in Africa, Europe, North America and Asia. Worked in private implementing agencies, UN, government and non–governmental organisations to find practical solutions needed to integrate the planning and hardware aspects of development with community participation, mobilising, training and education. Institution building, capacity development and management training exercises in Ghana, Canada, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Pakistan, Nepal and Uganda.
Yvonne Blomer
Yvonne Blomer is a new instructor in the English Department. She has published "a broken mirror, fallen leaf" a book of poems, from Ekstasis (2006).
Clarence Bolt
Clarence Bolt has taught at Camousn for 21 years. Thomas Crosby and 'Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large, arose out of his graduate work in Native Studies and his experience as a researcher writer with the Carrier Sekani tribal council in Prince George. He currently teaches two courses in the First Nations Community Studies Program. Does Canada Matter? resulted from a combination of experience in the classroom and in involvement in community organizations and poltical action, both at local and provincial levels. He believes strongly that academics have a responsibility to be academically challenging as well as relevant. His current interest is in exploring how world movements and local diversity intersect. Can we be local in a global world?
Jill Britton
Teacher, consultant, author, conference speaker, Jill Britton is deeply interested in the teaching of mathematics. Jill’s experiences include teaching Middle School students in summer camps, conducting workshops for elementary students and/or teachers nationwide, and instructing college level students full–time. She regards mathematics as the study of patterns and uses symmetry and tessellations, the art of M. C. Escher, polyhedra, curves and recreational topology to promote an interest in mathematics. Jill’s strong background in teaching forms the basis for the books she has authored. These books are intended to be resource material to supplement the curriculum with recreationally–focused topics. Her books are coordinated with internet resources all of which can be accessed by visiting her website.
Larry Hannant
Larry Hannant, PhD, is a history professor, an award–winning book author and a magazine, newspaper and film script writer. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and an instructor in history at Camosun College in Victoria. He is the author of The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada’s Citizens (University of Toronto Press, 1995) and the editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art (University of Toronto Press, 1998), which won the Robert S. Kenny Prize in Left/Labour Studies in 1999. Hannant researched and co–wrote a feature–length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The Spirit Wrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television in 2002. At present he is engaged in a study of the Doukhobors in Canada, work that has won him grants from the Canada Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is the director of “Explosion on the Kettle Valley Lin: The Death of Peter Verig a section of The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website
Angela Henry
Angela has a B.Ed from the University of British Columbia and a M.A. in Psychological Foundations from the University of Victoria. She began working at Camosun as the program leader of the Aquatic Specialist Program in August 1978. Angela had 10 days to prepare 7 of the 18 courses of that new curriculum. She ran the program in its many incarnations until 2002. In 1981, she began teaching in two departments: Psychology and Human Services and maintained that interdisciplinary focus for 21 years. She took phased retirement in 2002. In her 28 years, she’s worked under 10 deans and 10 chairs.
Angela published a “Everyday Encounters: an Introduction to Interpersonal Communications, 2nd Canadian ed. in 2002; and “Communications for Coaches” for Swimming/Natation Canada in 1989. She is also the proprietor of Henry Educational Consulting which offers workshops and lectures on interpersonal communication; conflict management; leadership and team–building for many agencies and organizations across Canada and beyond. She has 33 years of theatre experience as an actress; first director Iona Campagnolo. She’s a wife, mother, grandmother and an avid boater, especially kayaks and dragonboats. Her most gruelling educational experience was Advanced Wilderness First Aid.
Anita Kess
Anita Kess, instructor in the English Department, has written a number of books on ESL and Speech Therapy, including most recently What I Mean Is…. by Dibben, H., and Kess, A.M. from ReBuildingYou.com, 2009, a therapist’s workbook for persons with cognitive impairments – now being sold online in hard copy or electronic versions via www.rebuildingyou.com
Anita’s other publications include:
- Real-life Scenes of Young Americans by Kess, Joseph. F., Kess, A.M., and Hatori, Hiroyoshi.
Seibido Publishing, Tokyo, Japan. 2002. - The American Lifecycle by Kess, J. F., Kess, A. M., and Hirose, T, Tokyo: Seibido Publishing, 1993.
- Student Life in Practical English by Boczek, B. A., Kess, J. F., Kess, A. M., and Hirose, T. Tokyo: Seibido Publishing, 1991
Tana M. Kristjanson
Tana M. Kristjanson, C.A., is an instructor in the School of Business at Camosun College, in Victoria, B.C. She and her co-author Dr. Sheila Elworthy wrote Accounting (Nelson Education Ltd., 2010), a two volume textbook for first year accounting students. Sheila taught advanced accounting courses and general business courses at Camosun for 20 years before leaving to become the Vice-President, Learning at the CA School of Business (CASB). Tana currently teaches introductory and intermediate courses in financial accounting and auditing and has developed a forensic accounting course for the college. Tana has also taught accounting at North Island College in Courtenay,B.C.; Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina College) in Nanaimo, B.C.; in the Certified Management Accounting (CMA) program and with CASB. Her professional interests focus on the use of reflection and student feedback as mechanisms to improve teaching. Before becoming an instructor Tana spent five years in public practice working on reviews, audits, and taxes for clients such as not-for-profits, businesses, and Native Councils. When not teaching or working on the book you’ll find Tana hiking, travelling, and hanging out with her husband, friends, and family.
Ross Lambertson
Ross Lambertson was born in Toronto in 1944, raised in Halifax, and educated at University of Victoria and University of Chicago. He has been teaching (mostly Political Science) at Camosun since 1971. He is the author of several articles on the history of human rights in Canada, was the president of the Canadian Rights and Liberties Federation (Ottawa) from 1987-1991, and is currently a board member of the BC Civil Liberties Association.
Carole May
Carole has taught English to adults for over 38 years and is currently the English Placement Counsellor at the Assessment Centre. She has taught at Norquest College, Grant MacEwan College, Douglas College, and Camosun College. She has had five textbooks published, including a new Spotlight series for Pearson Education Canada. Her latest book, “Critical Skills in Essay Writing”, second edition, came out in the spring of 2009. She holds a B.A., B.Ed., and M.A. Carole continues to enjoy teaching and developing her craft. “My students make it all worthwhile,” she says. “Their remarkable development as writers and thinkers continues to surprise and delight me.”
Jim Sexton
Jim has been a member of the Camosun English Department since the college opened in 1971. Although he loves teaching Shakespeare, Utopias, and the various introductions to literature and writing, his main publishing interest is in Modern British Literature. He is an editor of the Aldous Huxley Annual (University of Westfalia, Muenster) and has published numerous articles on Huxley in the learned journals, as well as eight scholarly editions of Huxley’s works. Most recently, he has published an edition of two neglected thrillers by Graham Greene (No Man’s Land, HesperusPress, London). A radio dramatization of No Man’s Land was broadcast during October 2006 on the BBC.
Currently, Jim teaches full–time at Camosun during fall term, and is a SSHRC Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where he is completing a volume of Aldous Huxley’s letters as well as an edition of Huxley’s anonymously published essays on art and architecture. Since 2002, Jim has been teaching English literature during winter term in the south of France at l’Université du Sud, Toulon-Var.
Joyce Van de Vegte
Joyce van de Vegte was raised in Toronto and studied Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, eventually obtaining her Master’s of Applied Science in 1988. She worked as a research scientist for several years, focusing primarily on speech recognition and the human computer interface, and then tried high school teaching before beginning her career at Camosun College. In addition to her work with Camosun Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology, Joyce has taught in Suriname, China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Richard Zajchowski
Richard “Zack” Zajchowski, a learning skills counsellor at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, has devoted more than 30 years to working with students on improving their learning strategies, teaching first–year physics, and doing research in the area of problem solving. Prior to joining Camosun, he was a learning skills counselor at the University of Western Ontario and before that taught physics at CEGEP John Abbott College near Montreal. He holds an M.Ed. in educational studies from the University of Western Ontario and has published articles in the areas of learning and problem solving. Richard has also given numerous lectures and workshops to high school and college faculty on improving student problem–solving and learning performance.