The Sociology program at the University of Waterloo is ranked among the top five sociology programs in the country and is among the top 100 Sociology programs in the world (QS World University Ranking 2015).
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant Program. $199,139.
Suzan is the principal investigator on this research grant entitled "Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey.” It is a four-year grant (2015-2019), with F. Baban and K. Rygiel.
Associate Professor Martin Cooke has received the Angus Reid Practitioners/Applied Sociology Award issued by the Canadian Sociology Association.
The award "has been created to recognize sociologists who undertake community action projects that bring social science knowledge, methods, and expertise to bear in addressing community-identified issues and concerns" and "celebrates a Sociologists’ contribution to sociological practice that has served as a model for working with a community, organization or public service."
Today CBC has featured Professor Lorne Dawson (Sociology and Legal Studies) in two articles and one video. Over the past few years Prof. Dawson has increasingly appeared in national media providing insight and expert commentary on homegrown terrorism and the process of religious radicalization.