Editing University of Victoria (section)

===Notable faculty===
Some of the university's noted faculty members, past and present, are:

*[[Alan Astbury]], physics professor emeritus who played a part in the Nobel-prize winning discovery of a new subatomic particle and winner of the Rutherford Medal and Prize for physics<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ring.uvic.ca/03nov06/news/awards.html |title=Ring.uvic.ca |website=Ring.uvic.ca |access-date=2012-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205181933/http://ring.uvic.ca/03nov06/news/awards.html |archive-date=2012-02-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Taiaiake Alfred]], noted Indigenous scholar and founding director of the Indigenous Governance Program at UVic
*[[Mowry Baden]], sculptor and winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award in Visual Arts
*[[David D. Balam]], astronomer and namesake of asteroid 3749 Balam 
*Brendan Burke, Aegean Bronze Age archaeologist
*[[Brian Christie (neuroscientist)|Brian Christie]], Associate professor of Medicine and Neuroscience and active researcher
*[[Ronald Ian Cheffins]], professor emeritus of law and political science, first lawyer to be appointed directly to the British Columbia court of appeal (1985), a [[Canadian Constitution]]al expert, advisor to five past British Columbia [[Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia|lieutenant-governors]], Vice-chair on the Law Reform Commission of British Columbia (1991), special commissioner appointed by Lieutenant-Governor [[Clarence Wallace]] (1953)
*[[Harold Coward]], scholar in religious studies and a president of Academy 2 of the [[Royal Society of Canada]]<ref name="Communications.uvic.ca">{{cite web |url=http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=628 |title=Communications.uvic.ca |website=Communications.uvic.ca |date=2005-02-22 |access-date=2012-01-10 |archive-date=2012-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206065943/http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=628 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Lorna Crozier]], poet and author, recipient of the [[Order of Canada]]
*[[Aaron H. Devor]], sociologist and sexologist known for transgender research and holder of the university's Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a world's first
*[[Werner Israel]], physicist who discovered the important phenomenon of mass inflation, and together with Stephen Hawking, coeditor of two important celebratory volumes
*[[Stephen Arthur Jennings]], mathematician who made significant breakthroughs in the study of modular representation theory
*[[Mary Kerr]], production designer for the [[1994 Commonwealth Games]] opening and closing ceremonies
*[[Boualem Khouider]], mathematician and climate scientist
*[[Patrick Lane (poet)|Patrick Lane]], poet
*[[Hal Lawrence]], World War II veteran and historian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://library.uvic.ca/site/spcoll/guides/sc066.html |title=Hal Lawrence fonds |publisher=University of Victoria |access-date=2010-05-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712111214/http://library.uvic.ca/site/spcoll/guides/sc066.html |archive-date=2012-07-12}}</ref>
*[[Tim Lilburn]], poet and winner of the Governor General's Award
*[[Stephen Lindsay]], cognitive psychologist in the field of memory
*[[Joan MacLeod]], playwright and creative writing professor
*[[Giselle O. Martin-Kniep]], educator focusing on learning communities
*[[Julio Navarro (astrophysicist)|Julio Navarro]], astrophysicist involved in formulating a density profile for dark matter halos
*[[Jillian Roberts]], child psychologist and children's book author
*[[James Tully (philosopher)|James Tully]], Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy 
*[[Don VandenBerg]], internationally acclaimed astrophysicist for his work on modelling stars
*[[Kim Venn]], professor of physics & astronomy and director of the Astronomy Research Centre who has made significant contributions to the field of stellar spectroscopy
*[[Elizabeth Vibert]], historian and documentary filmmaker
*[[Andrew Weaver]], one of the world's leading climate researchers, member of the UN [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] which was co-awarded the 2007 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] along with former [[Vice President of the United States|U.S. vice president]] [[Al Gore]],<ref name="Communications.uvic.ca"/> member of the British Columbia Climate Action Team, MLA for [[Oak Bay-Gordon Head]] from 2013 to 2020 and Leader of the [[Green Party of British Columbia|BC Green Party]] from 2015 to 2020.
*[[Christine Welsh]], [[Métis]] filmmaker
*[[Anne Zeller]], physical anthropologist specializing in the study of primates
*[[Chase Joynt]], joined the University of Victoria in 2019 as an assistant professor of Gender Studies.