Maria Tippett

In 2004, Tippett returned to Canada and was an associate research professor at Simon Fraser University where she continued to work from 2006 to 2010.

In the course of her career, Tippett has curated art exhibitions at Simon Fraser University Art Gallery (BC Canada), the London Region Art Gallery (Ontario, Canada), the London Regional Art Gallery in London Ontario, the National Library (Luxembourg), as well as at the Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge University and the Art Gallery at Churchill College (Cambridge University). She has judged the Governor General's non-fiction Book Award and the BC Book Prize. She has lectured in South America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia in addition to Canada and the United States. Tippett has also been a consultant and television presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1998, Tippett was appointed to The Canadian Memorial Foundation, Canada House in London where she was a member of the board until 2005. In 2010 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Craigdarroch Research Awards Committee at the University of Victoria and was also a member of the President's Advisory Committee and the Dean of Fine and Performing Arts' Advisory Committee at the same institution. In 2021 Tippett became a member of the Advisory Board of The British Columbia Review.

At Cambridge she was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall (1991–1992), then a research associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute (1993–95). In 1995 she was appointed a senior research fellow and tutor at Churchill College, Cambridge (1995–2004). Tippett was a member of the Cambridge Faculty of History from 1992 to 2004 and was chair of the Churchill College Art Gallery from 1997 to 2001. In 1997 she and her husband, Peter Clarke, wrote the libretto for the Opera, 'Churchill's Finest Hour, A Musical Burleques in four acts composed by Jeremy Thurlow [Churchill College, Cambridge]

Prior to 1990, Tippett taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Emily Carr College of Art and Design and was the Robarts Professor of Canadian Studies at York University, Toronto.

Tippett was a member of the editorial board of The Canadian Historical Review, Canadian Art, Art Focus and an Arts Journalist Fellow at The Banff Centre in 1988. In 1992 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She has received honorary doctorates from Windsor University in 1994, and from the University of Victoria as well as from Simon Fraser University in 2006. In May 2014,Maria Tippett was inducted into Victoria High School's "Wall of Fame".

Raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Tippett travelled through Europe and the Middle East for three years following high school before attending Vancouver City College and Simon Fraser University. She received a doctorate in history from the University of London. Marriage to Canadian Historian Douglas Cole 1971-1983; Since 1991 she has been married to British historian and former Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, Professor Peter Clarke.

Maria W. Tippett (born 9 December 1944) is a Canadian historian specialising in Canadian art history. Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.