William H.N. Hull Fonds, 1955-1995, n.d. (non-inclusive)
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Adams, Anne
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The textual materials of the William H.N. Hull fonds include correspondence, clerical records, and writings by Dr. Hull
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William Henry Nelles Hull was born in Grimsby, Ontario in 1929. He received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario in 1951; a Master’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario in 1955 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1959.
Dr. Hull was a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario from 1958-1959. He worked as an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Manitoba from 1959-1964 while he was also an Assistant to the Dean of Arts and Science at the same university. In 1964-1965, he took on the roles of Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science and Executive Director of the Commonwealth Studies Center at Duke University. He became an Associate Professor of Politics and Chairman of the Department of Politics at Brock University in 1965-1967. From 1967-1968 he was a Professor of Politics and Chairman of the Department of Politics at Brock. He also acted as the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Brock from 1966-1968. His roles in 1968- 1970 included Professor of Politics and Chairman of the Department of Politics at Brock. He remained a Professor of Politics at Brock, and from 1970 onward and took on the added duty of being the Co-coordinator of Communications in 1983- 1986. Dr. Hull retired from Brock University in 1995.
He received numerous honours and awards including: a Fellowship from the Commonwealth Studies Center at Duke University; a grant from the Institute of Public Administration of Canada to W.U.S. (World University Service) International Assembly, Lund, Sweden; a grant from the Department of External Affairs to accept invitations to lecture in Australia; the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal; a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Research Grant and a Brock Advancement Fund grant.
Dr. Hull has lectured at numerous universities and he is a prolific writer. The Police and the Mass Media, Background Study prepared for the Royal Commission investigating Niagara Regional Police, 1989 is featured in this fonds.