Contacts

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

For Legal Studies undergraduate inquiries, please email: ls-associatechair@uwaterloo.ca. Book an academic advising appointment.

For research and teaching inquiries, please email: philip.boyle@uwaterloo.ca.

Interests: Population health, social inequality and the life course. Jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies and School of Public Health and Health Systems. Cross appointed to the School of Pharmacy.

Interests: Criminological theory testing, social influence dynamics, decision-making processes, politics and crime.

Interests: Migration and mobility studies; Border studies; Political sociology, Critical development and humanitarian aid

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

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

Interests: Border criminology; immigration detention; deportation; punishment; parole and re-entry; postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist thought; critical border and migration studies; qualitative research methods

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