Dr. Om Juneja Founding Director of Centre for Canadian Studies

Dr. Om P. Juneja, founding director, Centre for Canadian Studies and former Professor and Head, Department of English, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, is a recipient of the prestigious Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla.

He has published three books and four dozen papers in learned journals and has guided eight Ph. D and twelve M. Phil theses/ dissertations in Canadian Studies.

As the founding Secretary of Indian Association for Canadian Studies, he got it affiliated to International Council for Canadian Studies in 1987. Under his Presidency, IACS grew from a membership of 85 to 600 with a four-fold increase in the grant from Government of Canada from $20,000 in 1987 to $80,000 in 1994.

He was elected the Member-at-large (Secretary-Treasurer) of International Council for Canadian Studies in 1992 and was honoured with the prestigious “Certificate of Merit” for his significant contributions to the development of Canadian Studies in India and abroad in 1994 by International Council for Canadian Studies. Indian Association for Canadian Studies honoured him with “Award of Merit” in 1996.

Currently, he is the UGC EMERITUS FELLOW (PROFESSOR) in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, M. S. University, Baroda working on his research on “Theorisation of the Indian Diaspora in North America in Network Society” and is the Authorised Trustee of Indian Association for Canadian Studies Vadodara.