Eva Kushner
Eva Milada Ruth Kushner was a Canadian scholar of Comparative literature and French, Renaissance, and Canadian literature. She was the President of Victoria University in 1987. In 1997, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was the first woman to be a university president in Ontario, Canada.
Biography
Eva Dubska was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia on June 18, 1929. She lived in France from 1939 to 1945, returned briefly to Czechoslovakia after World War II, and then moved to Canada in 1946.Kushner attended McGill University and obtained a BA in Philosophy and Psychology in 1948. In 1950, she obtained an MA in Philosophy and in 1956, she obtained a PhD in French Literature. In 1971, she was named as a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Canada].
Kushner became President of Victoria University in 1987 and held that position until 1994. She also served as Chair of the Royal Society of Canada Committee on Freedom of Scholarship and Science from 1993 to 1998. In 1997, the Canadian government awarded her the Order of Canada award.