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Ron Burnett is the author of Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary, and How Images Think. He is also the editor of Explorations in Film Theory. Burnett is the President of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He is also the author of over 150 published articles and book chapters. Burnett was named Educator of the Year by the Canadian New Media Association in 2005 and received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for service to Canada and Canadians. He is an adjunct Professor at York University, and is one of the founders of Canadian Film Studies through a journal that he developed and edited, Ciné-Tracts, from 1976 until 1982. The French government recognized in 2010 the cultural contributions, both in Canada and abroad, of Ron Burnett, BA (1968), MA (1971), PhD (1981), honouring him with an Order of France: Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Burnett has been the President and Vice-Chancellor of Emily Carr University of Art and Design for 14 years. The University is presently researching the possibility of moving from Granville Island in Vancouver to a new purpose built Campus twenty minutes away.

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