Professor Mark Zanna named Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

Professor Mark Zanna  named Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Over 39 years at the University of Waterloo, Zanna has risen to become the very top social psychologist in Canada and among the top in the world. His work on attitudes, stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice, and social intervention made him an influential leader in the field throughout his career, a career featuring 150 papers in top journals plus 66 book chapters in highly visible outlets as well as several edited books. He served on the editorial boards of 11 top journals, including as associate editor; further, for 30 years he edited two prestigious book series.

He was recognized within the university for his stellar career with the inaugural Excellence in Research Award in 2000 and three Outstanding Performance Awards, and also nationally and internationally with Fellow status in the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology; he has also served as president for a number of these groups. In 1999, he was made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada and the Killam Prize Laureate for the Social Sciences, Canadian Council for the Arts in 2011, amongst many other career honours and awards.

He twice served as chair of the department, providing strong leadership and always displaying the attributes of the consummate academic.

uWaterloo Daily Bulletin June 10, 2015