Dr. Adria is an accomplished teacher, a distinguished academic leader, and an internationally published researcher. He has held the positions of Associate Dean, Acting Dean, and Founding Graduate Program Director (the Master of Arts in Communications and Technology) at the University of Alberta. He has also taught in the Business School at Athabasca University. He is a former president of the Canadian Library Trustees’ Association and a recipient of the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the New York based Media Ecology Association.
Governor General’s Gold Medal