Ken Coates (historian)

Ken Coates
Ken Coates speaking in 2022
Born	1956 Alberta
Nationality	Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of British Columbia
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of Saskatchewan (Canada Research Chair and faculty member in the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy)

Ken Coates (born 1956) is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims. His other areas of specialization include Arctic sovereignty;^[1] science, technology and society, with an emphasis on Japan; world and comparative history; and post-secondary education. Coates is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and Director, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan.^[2] In 2015, Coates was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[3]

While Coates was dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, he played an integral role in the development of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus^[4][5][6] and was a member of the Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board.^[7]