Dr. Alexie Tcheuyap, Dean of Arts, has been elected as Secretary of the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) Academy of Arts and Humanities. Serving for a three-year term, Tcheuyap will also become a member of the RSC Council, the organization’s principal governing body.
“It is an honour to be able to serve as Secretary of the Academy,” said Tcheuyap. “I am grateful for the contributions of my predecessor in the role, Professor Sean Caulfield (University of Alberta). And I look forward to working with the Academy and other members of the Council to advance the mission of the Royal Society of Canada.”
In 2021, Tcheuyap was inducted as a Fellow of the RSC in recognition of his body of work on African literature, film and media.
Founded in 1882, the RSC elects leading scientists, researchers, scholars and artists into one of its three academies – of Arts and Humanities, of Social Sciences, and of Science – and since 2014, into the College of New Scholars, Scientist and Artists. The organization of 2,637 fellows and 324 members advises governments and NGOs, and mobilizes the membership to make significant and substantial contributions of knowledge, understanding, and insight through engagement with the larger society.
Tcheuyap is among 12 fellows and members of the RSC currently in the Faculty of Arts – the newest, Dr. Dillon Browne, was inducted to the College of New Scholars, Scientist and Artists on November 14, 2025.
Tcheuyap launches his term with the Academy and Council in a time of particular challenge and opportunity for humanities and creative arts in Canada’s postsecondary institutions. A 2025 RSC statement reasserted the importance of these disciplines and their intersections for enhancing “knowledge of the human condition, ever changing and developing in different periods and cultures,” for cultivating “wisdom and understanding, making people more empathetic, more reflective, better critical thinkers, and effective communicators,” and for “their essential role in the mission of the university: learning and the creation of knowledge.”
