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Cook, Ed
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Eung-Do (Ed) Cook was born on February 3, 1935 in Seosan, Chung-Nam Province, Korea. He attended Chung-Aung University from 1954-1961, majoring in the English language and receiving his B.A. and M.A. during that time. He earned an M.A. in TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) from the University of Hawaii in 1965, and a PhD in Lingustics from the University of Alberta in 1968. Cook died in British Columbia in March 2025.
Dr. Cook joined the academic staff at the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in 1969, rising to Associate Professor in 1972 and to full Professor in 1975. From 1976-1985 he was Head of the Department of Linguisitics. He has been awarded many academic honours, including two Killam Fellowships, an annual fellowship with the Calgary Insitute for the Humanities, the Canadian Ethnic Studies Senior Fellowship and the Faculty of Social Sciences Distinguished Research Award. Ed Cook has been a prolific writer of books, articles, and conference papers.
Building on the work of Edward Sapir, Father Morice, and Fang-Kuei Li, Dr. Cook compiled a large amount of raw data on First Nations languages -- Chipewyan (Dene Suline) and Chilcotin in particular.
Dr. Cook retired from the University of Calgary as an Emeritus Professor in 2000. He married Myung-Sook Shin and they had two sons.