Mark Schmuckler

Biography

Professor Mark Schmuckler earned his Ph.D. in Psychology, focusing on both music cognition and infant development, at Cornell University.  Upon completion of his doctorate in 1988, he began a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia.  Professor Schmuckler is a specialist in the areas of infant perceptual-action coupling and the perception of pitch structure in music.  He has authored and contributed to a number of texts, including The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology and The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology.

Dr. Schmuckler served as the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Vice-Dean Undergraduate from 2013-2020, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of undergraduate programs and curriculum, student appeals and petitions; teaching and learning innovations; and curriculum renewal projects. In addition to teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses since joining the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough in 1989, Dr. Schmuckler has served on a variety of university committees: Course Evaluations, UTCAP, Quality Assurance, NGSIS, the VP Dean’s Advisory Committee and the VP Dean’s Committee on Petitions to name a few.  

In 2021, Dr. Schmuckler completed a six-month term as the Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Programs and Innovations in Undergraduate Education. Prior to taking on this role, he served as Vice-Provostial Advisor, working closely with the Vice-Provost providing leadership and guidance to colleagues across the University regarding academic program review.

Appointed the Interim Associate Vice-Principal Research & Innovation, Research Facilitation & Infrastructure, Professor Schmuckler is also a member of the Quality Appraisal Committee of the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance. He currently serves as Editor of the journal Psychomusicology, and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cognition and Development.