Please join us for the Fall 2021 Joint University of Waterloo–St. Jerome’s University Legal Studies Seminar
On Monday the 22nd of November, 2021 at 1 p.m. EST,
DR. ARIADNA ESTÉVEZ will be speaking on the topic of
'THE RULE OF LAW NECROPOWER’
The Department of Sociology and Legal Studies is bringing back the Fall and Wellness Scavenger Hunts for Thrive Month.
Read the full story: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/2021-canadas-most-powerful-women
Martin Cooke is PI of a new CIHR Operating Grant on emerging COVID-19 research gaps.
In June Sociology & Legal Studies instructors Sarah Turnbull and Phil Boyle were elected to two-year terms as Board Members of Canadian Law & Society Association, visit their website.
PhD studnet Emerson LaCroix recently had an article named Organizational Complexities of Experiential Education: Institutionalization and Logic Work in Higher Education published in the Journal of Experiential Education.
Understanding cybersecurity from multiple perspectives | Arts & Letters | University of Waterloo
Professors Jennifer Whitson and Ian Goldberg developed an interdisciplinary course for graduate students to tackle the challenge of cybersecurity from humanities, social science and computer science perspectives.
This chapter examines how racial innocence is embedded in and shapes the parameters of reform efforts around immigration detention. Using the United Kingdom as an example, it considers the importance of race and racism—as these intersect with other social relations of power—for understanding the policy and practice of immigration detention and recent reforms.
Assistant Prof. Andrea Quinlan, Prof. Suzan Ilcan and Assistant Prof. Adam Molnar have each been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants for their respective research projects.
PhD Research Assistantship
Project: Understanding the Risks and Regulation of Workplace Surveillance in Canada’s Digital Economy
Duration: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022