Contacts

Interests: Organizations, Occupations, Professions and Education

Director, Centre for Studies in Social Justice; Professor, University of Windsor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Director, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), City Life and Well-being: The Grey Zone of Health and Illness

Interests: Radical Interpretive Theory and Methodology (e.g, Ethnomethodology, Hermeneutics, Analysis), Culture, (e.g., Health, City, Urban/Rural, Ancient Athens), Power (e.g., Parent/Child), Socratic Tradition of Inquiry

Interests: Security, Policing, Resilience, Urban Governance, Emergencies & Disasters and Public Safety.

Interests: historical relation between law and capitalism that combines legal theory and political economy.

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Patrick's dissertation research examines frontline social interactions between border services officers (BSOs) and members of various travelling publics. (Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

Interests: Social Networks, Criminal Networks, Life-course Criminology, Youth Crime, Youth Justice

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Laura’s dissertation research focuses on governance, mobility politics, asylum, and social justice. Specifically, she critically examines the irregularization of refugee claimants in Toronto’s everyday spaces and places, and how such processes are negotiated and contested.

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Youth crime, Social networks, Female delinquency

Interests: The Life Course, and the Welfare State, Population Health and Labour Force Ageing, Social Demography of Aboriginal Peoples, Research Methodology. Jointly appointed at Health Studies and Gerontology

Interests: Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Science, Sociological Theory

Interests: Criminology, Legal Studies

Interests: Sociology of Health, Social Determinants of Health, Comparative Health Care Systems, Health, Illness and Society

Interests: Sociology of (higher) education; School-to-Work transitions; Quantitative and mixed methods; Social and public policy; Social stratification and inequality.

Dissertation Topic Description: Brittany’s doctoral research examines the employment pathways of recent Canadian PhD graduates in the social sciences through a national, institutional, and individual-level approach. In particular, it aims to identify the specific industry-related pathways graduates secure, as most research has focused extensively on obtaining academic employment. As a growing number of graduates obtain non-academic employment, it is important to inform current PhD students of viable career options they can pursue upon graduation, and to aid in removing the stigma associated with obtaining an industry career.

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Discourse, Conversation, Reflexivity, Interpretive methodology, Post-Wittgensteinian philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Art

Interests: Race and Ethnic Relations, Multiculturalism, Indigenous Peoples' Politics, Mass Media Communication, Theorizing Social Problems

Interests: Individual and group offending dynamics, substance use, social networks, drug dealing/smuggling

Interests: Stratification, Canadian Society, Survey Research Methods

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Jamal's doctoral research examines topics of migration and securities.

Research area

Migration, Securities, Risk, Insurance, Surveillance, Biometric Borders, Global Governance, Globalization, NAFTA, Free Trade.

Interests: Sociological theory; history of Canadian sociology; knowledge, education and digital culture.

Interests: Critical Health Studies, Embodiment and Physical Cultural studies, Feminist and Critical Theory, Regulation and Governance, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Deviance

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Cathlene's doctoral research examines macro- and micro- understandings of parent engagement and its relationship to children's literacy achievement.  Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

Research area

Sociology of Education, Sociology of the Family & Childhood, Inequality, Organizations, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

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Michael's research examines the relationship between low socio-economic status (SES) of families and children's literacy.

Research area - Socciology of education; inequality; economic sociology; comparative and mixed methods.

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Sociology of Home, Chinese Immigrants, Interpretive Sociology, Social Statistics

Interests: Anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing initiatives, Financial regulation and financial crime, Economic sociology, Legal globalization

Interests: Migration and Mobilities; Refugees; Citizenship; Humanitarianism; Critical Development Studies.

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Interpretive Sociology, Heritage, Museums, Culture, Art

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Patrick's dissertation research examines frontline social interactions between border services officers (BSOs) and members of various travelling publics. (Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship)

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Carlie's doctoral research examines the mother-child program in relation to larger trends in penal governance, particularly the shift from penal welfare to neoliberal political rationalities

​Research area

penal regimes, mother-child, empowerment, neoliberalism, gendered discipline 

Interests: History of Education; Sociology of Education; Gender, Democracy and Schooling; The Teaching Profession; Civics Curriculum; Global Citizenship Education; Oral History; Qualitative Methods

Interests: irregular immigration; asylum seekers and refugees; migration politics and management; international relations; border studies.

Interests: Canadian Political Economy, Primary Resources, Sociology of the Family, Rural Sociology, Social Change, Gender, Feminist and Marxian Theory

Interests: Social Networks, Sociology of Science and Science Policy, Information Science, Computational Social Science, Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Research Methods

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Drawing on a qualitative examination of senior high school students enrolled in an after-school enrichment program in the inner-city, Rod's research examines how they make choices about their educational careers and the experiences of those students who decide to transition into postsecondary.

Research area - Sociology of education; higher education marketing; work and occupations.

Interests: Criminology, Victimology, Sexuality and the Law, Gender

RDC Analyst, South Western Ontario Research Data Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Waterloo

Interests: Analysis of Complex Survey Data

Interests: Security and Policing, Borders and Governance, Regulation and Law, Social Theory

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Manjit's research focuses on how the South Asian gang phenomenon in Western Canada has been problematized and governed by authorities and how various stakeholders (government and non-government actors) problematize risk..

Interests: Gender Inequality and Homelessness, Single Parents Mental Health, Aboriginal Poverty and Canada's Furr-Families: The Role of Pets in the Health and Well-Being of Canadians.

Interests: Symbolic Interaction, Social Psychology, Deviance, Classical Greek and Latin Scholarship, Rhetoric, Religion, Poetics and Entertainment, Education and Scholarship, Philosophy, Ethnohistory, Marketplace Activity, Management

Interests: Transition to adulthood; identity resolution; youth and risk-taking; eating disorders; mental health; primary healthcare evaluation; furries

Dissertation Topic

Rowland's doctoral research examines the direct juridcal means by which North American colonial-state actors impose definitions of indentity upon Indigenous People. 

Research area

"Antisystemic Movements; Domestic Colonialism; Settler Colonialism; Marxist Political Economy; World-Systems Analysis; Indigenous Identity; Indigenous Rights; Anticolonial Theory; Decolonization; Self-Determination; Indigenous Nationalism; Historical Materialism
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Kanika's doctoral research will explore the factors that contribute to the formation of youth perceptions of social injustice and how these perceptions of injustice impact criminal behavior and other life outcomes.

Research area

Juvenile Delinquency, Policing, Social Inequality, Criminal Justice Process 

Interests: Criminology, Life Course, Juvenile Delinquency, Policing, Justice Systems, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

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Krystle’s doctoral research explores the disconnect between police and hospitals when responding to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. 

Research area

Mental health; Mental Crisis; Police; Hospital

Interests: Post-Colonial Feminist Thought, Gender Violence, Civil Society-State Relations, Governance and Regulation, Sociology of Law, Criminology

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Shannon’s dissertation research looks at the Canadian Security Certificate Initiative from a governance perspective and makes use of ideas of ‘scale’ to investigate the interplay of immigration and criminal law.

Research area

Immigration security, Governance, Socio-legal studies

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Policing, Policing Strategies, HR management, organizational theory, research methods.

Interests: Methodology and Statistics, Rural Sociology, Social Psychology, Environment and Resources

Interests:  Sociology of Digital Media, Governance of Online Spaces; Game and Software Studies, Surveillance Studies, Qualitative Methods

Interests: sociology of religion; quantitative methods; Canadian studies; immigration and ethnicity; social change; political sociology

Dissertation/ Research area

Policing, police discretion and decision-making, policing strategies, homicide studies, socio-legal responses to crime, research methods. Funded by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

Brian's dissertation research looks at the intersection between surveillance and new media. Specifically, he is interested in how software has come to structure identity politics and activism both online and off.