{"id":2,"date":"2017-04-06T17:13:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:26:53","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Teaching-Stream professor in the Economics Department.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2017\/04\/ryan-george-uwaterloo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My undergraduate studies were in economics, history and philosophy at the <em>University of Victoria <\/em>(BC).\u00a0 I developed a concern for interdisciplinary scholarship from studies undertaken with Malcolm Rutherford (Econ), Ian MacPherson (Hist), Radhika Desai (PSci) and Jan Zwicky (Phil) at UVic in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to become an economic historian, I pursued an MA in\u00a0Economics at the <em>University of Toronto<\/em>.\u00a0 Unable to settle down at U of T, I sought a broader historical view of the economy by completing an MA at <em>York<\/em> and a PhD at <em>McMaster<\/em> in History.\u00a0 My dissertation committee was comprised of Richard Harris (supervisor &#8211; Geog), Michael Gauvreau and Ruth Frager (Hist), and John Fox (Soc).<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating in 2011, I have been teaching\u00a0at the University of Waterloo, and\u00a0am an\u00a0impassioned student\u00a0of\u00a0economic history and the history of economics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Teaching-Stream professor in the Economics Department. My undergraduate studies were in economics, history and philosophy at the University of Victoria (BC).\u00a0 I developed a concern for interdisciplinary scholarship from studies undertaken with Malcolm Rutherford (Econ), Ian MacPherson (Hist), Radhika Desai (PSci) and Jan Zwicky (Phil) at UVic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-content-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsweb.uwaterloo.ca\/r22georg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}