Cheryl Susan McWatters

Cheryl Susan McWatters (PhD, MBA’88, Artsci’77) has been appointed the inaugural Father Edgar Thivierge Chair in Business History at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. She is also cross-appointed to the Department of History. Her teaching and research focus on the global context of business and the emergence of capitalism from the 15th century to the modern era. In March, she was appointed to France’s Conseil d’Administration du Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées. She and her husband, John MacDiarmid (Sc’78, MSc’87), endowed a visiting fellowship in honour of Cheryl’s parents at Queen’s University Archives to enable researchers to make use of collections there. Cheryl and John are enjoying living by the Rideau Canal, a short distance from their cottage. Email: McWatters@telfer.uOttawa.ca