Mark Schmuckler
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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.