Suzan Ilcan has been selected to receive a 2020 Arts Award for Excellence in Research.
The Sociology and Legal Studies department would like to congratulate Rowland Robinson who successfully defended his thesis, “Settler Colonialism + Native Ghosts: An Autoethnographic Account of the Imaginarium of Late Capitalist/Colonialist Storytelling” on Thursday February 6th, 2020.
Brittany Etmanski, PhD Candidate, Sociology and Legal Studies, has been chosen as one of two speakers for GRADtalks: The Role of the University in the Modern World.
Damian Sycz, a PhD candidate in Sociology is working with one of the largest police services in Canada as part of his dissertation research, to explore why individuals decide to become police auxiliary constables, and the ways in which police services can improve their recruitment tactics to target individuals with diverse backgrounds.
Katie Ford is the recipient of the 2018 Warren Ober Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student in the Faculty of Arts!!
It is our pleasure to inform the Sociology and Legal Studies community that Rowland Robinson is the recipient of the Doctoral Thesis Completion Award!
Abstract: This project centres on the homes that have been lost and found by refugees of the recent Syrian crisis. Experiences of urban life are negotiated in particularly complex ways by refugees moving across regions and nations in pursuit of home. In these movements, they expand the dimensions of home.
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Henne who has received the 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology. The 2018 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award honours an early-to-mid-career scholar whose distinguished accomplishments symbolize the spirit of critical criminology and social justice. It is based on the assessment of one’s scholarship, teaching, and/or service in recent years.
Recipients of the Outstanding Performance Award: Kathryn Henne, Suzan Ilcan, Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Exploring Mental Health-Related Calls for Police Service: A Canadian Study of Police Officers as ‘Frontline Mental Health Workers’ - Krystle Shore, Jennifer AA Lavoie