Mark O. Dickerson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. His major field of
study was Comparative Politics with emphasis on political development in the non-industrialized world. His research also focused on political development in Canada's north. This work resulted in Whose North? Political Change, Political Development and Self-government in the NWT(1993). While at the University of Calgary he received a number of awards for teaching excellence. In 1997 he ran, unsuccessfully, as an Alberta Liberal Party candidate for MLA. After retirement in 1997, he maintained his interest in Aboriginal self-government and was acting Executive Director of the Arctic Institute of North America in 2000.
