| Peter Stoicheff | |||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Richard Peter Stoicheff | ||||||||||||
| Order: | 10th | ||||||||||||
| Office: | President of the University of Saskatchewan | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Ilene Busch-Vishniac | ||||||||||||
| Chancellor: | Grit McCreath | ||||||||||||
| Term Start: | October 24, 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Ottawa, Ontario | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Canadian | ||||||||||||
| Relations: | Boris P. Stoicheff (father) | ||||||||||||
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Richard Peter Stoicheff (born 1956) is a Canadian academic. He is the 10th and current president of the University of Saskatchewan, succeeding Ilene Busch-Vishniac, following an interim appointment of Gordon Barnhart.[1] [2]
Born in Ottawa, Ontario,[3] the son of the physicist Boris P. Stoicheff, Stoicheff received an undergraduate degree in English and history from Queen's University in 1978 and a master's of arts in 1980 and PhD in 1983 in English literature from the University of Toronto.[4] He joined the University of Saskatchewan's English department in 1986. From 2005 to 2010, he was vice-dean humanities and fine arts in the College of Arts and Science. In 2011, he was appointed dean.[1]