Sociology Faculty and Instructors

office hours: by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2205A-003 Statistics for Sociology
• 2205B-002 Statistics for Sociology
• 2236A-001 Population Studies
• 4488G-001/9373B-001 Selected Topics in Sociology: Migration

Graduate Supervision

Teresa Abada’s current research interests include investigating the social, cultural and human capital factors that shape the children of immigrants’ economic and social integration.

office hours: Wed. 10:30-11:30 a.m., by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2169-001 Work and Industry
• 9587B-001 MA Sociological Research

Graduate Supervision

Tracey Adams's current research interests include professions, gender and work. Her current SSHRC-funded research explores the regulation of professions in Canada, with a particular focus on alternate health professions.

office hours: On Sabbatical

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2143E-001 Minority Groups
• 4410G-001 Globalization, Democracy and Change
• 4420F/9166-001 Race, Class and Colonialism

Graduate Supervision

Anton Allahar's current research interests include the economic and political sociology of the Caribbean, with particular emphasis on ideology, ethnicity, class and nationalism. Internationally recognized for his research, he is currently the president of the Caribbean Studies Association and a Faculty Scholar.

office hours: By appointment

Faculty Profile

CV

Currently Teaching:

• 2205B-001 Statistics for Sociology
• 9263B-001 Selected Topics in Health

Graduate Supervision

Dr. Avison specializes in the Sociology of Mental Health and in Medical Sociology, focusing on social disparities in maternal and child health and on the study of families experiencing stress across the life course. He holds cross-appointments in the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He is also Scientist and Chair of the Division of Children’s Health and Therapeutics of the Children’s Health Research Institute and Scientist and Assistant Director of the Lawson Health Research Institute.

office hours: Wed 4:30-5:30

Currently Teaching:

• 2247A-650 Sociology of Health Care
• 2247B-650 Sociology of Health Care
• 2259-002 Sociology of Deviance
• 2235-650 The Family
• 2247A-650 Sociology of Health Care

office hours: Thur. 10:30-12:00

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 9367-001 Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Social Demography
• MER  9000/9001 - Colloquium Series in Migration and Ethnic Relations

Graduate Supervision

Danièle Bélanger's current research interests include different aspects of women's lives in developing countries, such as Vietnam and China. In her research, Dr. Bélanger investigates how globalization and the new migration opportunities that it creates for poor women are affecting them and their families.

office hours: by appointment

Currently Teaching:

• 2140-002 Social Problems
• 2172A-001 Advertising and Society
• 2172A-002 Advertising and Society
• 2235-001 The Family

office hours: By appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 3347G-001 Current Issues in Stratification
• 9147A-001 Social Inequality

Graduate Supervision

office hours: By appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2202-001 Sociology of Aging
• 3315G-001 Work and Policy in an Aging Society

Graduate Supervision

Ingrid Arnet Connidis's current research interests include family ties and aging. Social support is a central feature of social life and family ties are an important facet of social support. Recurring themes in her work include the centrality of gender to family life, the value of a life course perspective, the significance of context when examining any particular relationship, and the policy implications of research results.

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2239-001 Social Inequality

Graduate Supervision

Catherine Corrigall-Brown's current research interests include social movements, political sociology, social psychology, Indigenous politics, environmental politics, and contentious political participation.

office hours: Mon 1:30-2:30 pm,  Tues 8:00-9:00 am,  or by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 3320F-001 Youth and Society
• 4487G-001 Selected Topic: Advanced Sociology of Youth
• 9182B-001 Sociology of Youth

Graduate Supervision

James Côté's current research interests include youth studies, the sociology of education, and identity studies. 

office hours: By appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2139A-001 Social Inequality and Financial Security

Graduate Supervision

Lorraine Davies's current research interests include gender inequality; specifically, how social structural arrangements affect psychosocial processes and mental health outcomes. She is interested in understanding the impact of diversity in women's experiences by parent status, marital status, age and employment status on health.

office hours: by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 3404F-001 - Modern Sociological Theory
• 4401F-001 - Everyday Life
• 9005B-001 - Contemporary Social Theory

Graduate Supervision

Michael Gardiner's current research interests include theories of affect (especially boredom), the everyday, utopia, and dialogical social theory (the work of Mikhail Bakhtin in particular).

ON LEAVE Dec 2011-Jun 2013

Graduate Supervision

office hours: by appointment

Currently Teaching:

• 2260B-001 Sociology of Law
• 1021E-650 Introduction to Sociology

office hours: Mon. 10:00-12:00

Currently Teaching:

• 2212B-001 Women and Third World Development
• 3341F-001 The Social Construction of Gender
• 2239-650 Social Inequality

Currently Teaching:

• 2253A-650 Administration of Criminal Justice

office hours: by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2253B-001 Administration of Criminal Justice
• 2267A-001 Youth in Conflict with the Law
• 3323G-001 Genocide
• 9135A-001 Contemporary Issues in Criminology

Graduate Supervision

Laura Huey's current research interests include policing, victimization, homelessness, surveillance, theoretical criminology, and qualitative methodology.

office hours: Wed 1:00-3:00 pm

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2144A-001 Sociology of Education
• 2169-001 Work and Industry
• 3307G-002 Investigating the Social World: Qualitative Research
• 4450F/9155A-001 Education and Society

Graduate Supervision

Wolfgang Lehmann's current research interests include work, education, and social inequality. His main research focus is on the interplay between structural factors and individual agency in school-work transitions.

office hours: Wed. 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2234E-001 Social Psychology
• 2240E-001 Survey of Sociological Theory
• 2240E-002 Survey of Sociological Theory

Graduate Supervision

Charles G. Levine's current research interests include social psychology, ego development, critical theory and the history of sociological theory.

office hours: By Class - see WebCT

Currently Teaching:

• 1020-001 Introduction to Sociology
• 1020-002 Introduction to Sociology
• 1021E-001 Introduction to Sociology
• 2259-001 Sociology of Deviance
• 3358G-001 Women and Crime
• 4437F-001 Advanced Sociology of Deviance
• 2259-650 Sociology of Deviance

office hours: On line course

Currently Teaching:

• 2253B-650 Administration of Criminal Justice
• 2267A-650 Youth in Conflict with the Law
• 2266A-650 Introduction to Criminology
• 2267A-650 Youth in Conflict with the Law

Currently Teaching:

• 2270A-001 Foundations of Social Theory
• 2271B-001 Survey of Contemporary Theory

Faculty Profile

CV

Currently Teaching:

• 4441A/9331A-001 Population Research Methods
• 9007B-001 Advanced Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Graduate Supervision

Rachel Margolis's current research interests include factors throughout the life course which contribute to social disparities in health and well-being.

office hours: Mon 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Currently Teaching:

• 2151A-001 The Evolution of Cities
• 2151A-002 The Evolution of Cities
• 2152B-001 Life in the Contemporary City
• 2205A-001 Statistics for Sociology
• 2205A-002 Statistics for Sociology
• 2206B-001 Research Methods in Sociology
• 2206B-002 Research Methods in Sociology
• 3306B-002 Investigating the Social World: Quantitative Research
• 2205A-650 Statistics for Sociology
• 2206A-650 Research Methods in Sociology

office hours: Online courses

Currently Teaching:

• 2133A-650 Public Opinion
• 2173B-650 Problems in Mass Society
• 2260A-650 Sociology of Law
• 2260B-650 Sociology of Law

office hours: Study Leave

Faculty Profile

Graduate Supervision

Julie McMullin's current research examines how class, age, gender, ethnicity, and race structure inequality in paid work and families.

office hours: Mon 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thur 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Currently Teaching:

• 2233-001 Social Psychology
• 3357F-001 Crime and Deviance in the Workplace
• 3404F-002 Modern Sociological Theory
• 2234E-650 Social Psychology

office hours: After class or by appointment

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2266A-001 Introduction to Criminology
• 4451G-001 Policing and Society
• 4486G/9130B-001 Selected Topic: Criminological Theory and Research
• 9003A-001 Quantitative Research

Graduate Supervision

Paul-Philippe Paré's main research focus is quantitative sociological criminology. Prof. Paré combines sociological approaches with advanced statistical methods in order to better understand patterns and causes of crime and violence. A closely related research interest is the sociology of the criminal justice system (with special focus on policing).

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 3365G-001 Selected Topics: The Internet and Society

Graduate Supervision

Anabel Quan-Haase's current research interests include computer-mediated communication, the networked society, social networks, and new media and social change. Her current research projects examine how young people use instant messaging, Facebook, mobile phones and other communication tools and what the social consequences are for their social relations, community, and social capital.

office hours: Online Course

Currently Teaching:

• 1021E-650 Introduction to Sociology
• 2233-650 Social Psychology
• 1021E-651 Introduction to Sociology

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2270A-001 Foundations of Social Theory
• 2271B-001 Survey of Contemporary Theory
• 4402G-001 Sociology of Knowledge
• 9002A-001 Classical Sociological Theory

Graduate Supervision

Scott Schaffer's current research interests include contemporary and global social theory, the sociology of development, and resistance movements. His research is currently focused on understanding the interplay between sociological theory, social policy, and social change.

ON SABBATICAL 2011-12

Faculty Profile

Graduate Supervision

Kim Shuey's current research interests include health inequality across the life course, and studies of work, health, and aging within the context of changing labor markets and employment institutions.

Currently Teaching:

• 2140-001 Social Problems
• 2140-002 Social Problems
• 2140-650 Social Problems
• 2179A-650 Promotion of Community Health

Faculty Profile

Graduate Supervision

Jerry White's current research interests include the social determinants of well-being for aboriginal communities in Canada.

office hours: Mon 12:30-3:00 p.m.

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2140-001 Social Problems
• 4478F/9004A-001
• Advanced Program and Policy Evaluation

Graduate Supervision

Paul C. Whitehead's current research interests include the studies of the determinants and impact of social cohesion on the health and other population outcomes of First Nations and other aboriginal communities as well as evaluation of social programs and government policies.

Faculty Profile

Currently Teaching:

• 2285A-001 Social Inequality over the Life Course
• 3306A-001 Investigating the Social World: Quantitative Research
• 3306B-001 Investigating the Social World: Quantitative Research
• 9247B-001 Aging and Inequality

Graduate Supervision

Andrea Willson's research is in the area of social inequality over the life course. She is particularly interested in methodological issues related to the use of longitudinal data. Her current research projects include examinations of the dynamic relationship between socioeconomic status and health over the life course and longitudinal analyses of women's income security as they age.

office hours: by appointment

Currently Teaching:

• 2240E-650 Survey of Sociological Theory
• 2240E-650 Survey of Sociological Theory