New dean: 'We need FIMS now more than ever'

From Western News - May 10, 2018
By Adela Talbot

She has never worked as an academic in Canada. Yet for Lisa Henderson, there is an element of homecoming in her upcoming move to Western.

Her parents met as actors at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Her mother was a local television celebrity on Panorama. She was born in nearby St. Marys and attended Ryerson Public School in London before her family relocated to Montreal.

In January, Henderson will begin a five-year term as the new Dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS), following Thomas Carmichael to the position.

“I’m really connected to the region – the whole swath of territory between Montreal and southwestern Ontario. I’m rooted deeply there. To return to it as the place where I live and work is pretty moving,” said Henderson, who is a professor of Communication and a faculty affiliate in American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (continue reading).