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
Congratulations to Kanika Samuels-Wortley, Rod Missaghian, and Katie Cook on their recent successful PhD defences! This is the culmination of much dedication and their successes deserve celebration.
We wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
"I am very pleased to announce the Outstanding Performance Award recipients for 2020 and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo," writes James Rush, vice-president, academic & provost.
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Time: 06:00 PM
Location: Zoom Online
On June 1st, the Legal Studies departments at St. Jerome’s University (SJU) and the University of Waterloo launch their first joint seminar series. The inaugural event features Ntina Tzouvala, Senior Lecturer in the Australian National University College of Law, speaking about her most recently published work The Specter of Eurocentrism in International Legal History. Tzouvala’s piece appeared recently in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and provides insight into the profoundly Eurocentric history of international law.