Graduate Program
Graduate Collaborative Specializations
Students in our MA and PhD programs have the opportunity to earn a specialization in one of the following collaborative specializations. Application to a collaborative specialization should be made early in the first term of study.
Supervisors
Program Applicants
It is not necessary to find a supervisor at the time of application. However, to ensure that there is someone in the department suitable to supervise you, we encourage you to explore the research of our faculty members listed on this page and note your interest in particular faculty members in your statement.
Current Students
Students in our MA program are expected to select a supervisor during their first term in the program. Our PhDs are expected to have a supervisor by the end of their first year in the program.
Teresa Abada, Associate Professor
- Economic and social integration of children of immigrants
tabada@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x83690
SSC 5429
On Sabbatical July 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Faculty Profile
Tracey Adams, Professor
- Professions, gender and work
- Regulation of professions in Canada (alternate health professions)
tladams@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85120
SSC 5328
On Sabbatical July 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Faculty Profile
Robert Andersen, Professor
Dean, Faculty of Social Science
- Political sociology
- Social stratification
- Quantitative research methods and statistics
socsci-dean@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 84958
SSC 9438
office hours: by appointment
Dean's Profile
Dale Ballucci, Assistant Professor
- Administration of criminal justice
- Legal regulation of children and youth
- Sociology of law
dballucc@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 85140
SSC 5403
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor
- work
- inequality
- social theory
dcalnits@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 81380
SSC 5402
office hours: Tues. 9:00-10:00 and by appointment
Faculty Profile
Kate H. Choi, Associate Professor
- Family demography
- International migration
- Social stratification
- Quantitative methods
hchoi228@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85115
SSC 5331
On Sabbatical July 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Faculty Profile
Ingrid Arnet Connidis, Professor Emerita
- Family ties and aging
- Centrality of gender to family life
- Value of life course perspective and context in studying relationships
- Policy implications of research results
connidis@uwo.ca
519-661-3691
SSC 5329
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
James Côté, Professor Emeritus
- Youth studies
- Sociology of education
- Identity studies
cote@uwo.ca
SSC 5208
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
Lorraine Davies, Associate Professor
Associate Vice-Provost, School of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies
- Gender inequality
- Stress and women’s health across the life course
- The effects of interpersonal violence on women’s well-being
ldavies@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x81335
IGAB 1N07
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
- stratification, race, and ethicity
- sociology of education
- labour markets
pdenice@uwo.ca
(519) 661-2111 ext. 85725
SSC 5407
office hours: Tues. 2:00-4:00
Faculty Profile
Michael Gardiner, Professor
- Theories of affect (especially boredom)
- The everyday
- Utopia
- Dialogical social theory (the work of Mikhail Bakhtin in particular)
megardin@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85139
SSC 5424
office hours: Thurs. 2:00-3:30, or by appointment
Faculty Profile
Michael Haan, Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Migration and Ethnic Relations
Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations
- Demography
- Immigrant settlement
- Labour market integration
- Data development
michael.haan@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 85110
SSC 5412
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
Anders Holm, Professor
Director, Director, Centre for Research in Social Inequality
- quantitative methods
- social stratification
- sociology of health
aholm@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 ext. 85515
SSC 5327
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
Laura Huey, Professor
- Policing
- Victimization
- Trauma and resiliency
- Research and policy
lhuey@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85151
SSC 5213
office hours: by appointment
Faculty Profile
Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor
Acting Chair, Department of Sociology
- Work
- Education
- Social inequality
- The interplay between structural factors and individual agency in school-work transitions
wlehmann@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85142
SSC 5316
office hours: Thurs 9:00-11:00, or by appointment
Faculty Profile
Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor
- Demography
- Family
- Health and Well-being
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x82850
SSC 5326
On Sabbatical July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020
Faculty Profile
Julie McMullin, Professor
- How class, age, gender, ethnicity, and race, structure inequality in paid work and families
mcmullin@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x86409
IGAB 2N24
On leave, serving as Vice-Provost (International)
Anabel Quan-Haase, Professor
- Computer-mediated communication
- The networked society
- Social networks
- New media and social change
aquanhaa@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x86952
SSC 5413
office hours:
Faculty Profile
Scott Schaffer, Associate Professor
- Contemporary and global social theory
- The sociology of development
- Resistance movements
- The interplay between sociological theory, social policy, and social change
scott.schaffer@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85122
SSC 5411
office hours: Wed. 10am-12pm and 4:45-6pm
Faculty Profile
Kim Shuey, Associate Professor
Graduate Chair, Sociology
- Health inequality across the life course
- Work, health, and aging in the new economy
- Nonstandard and precarious employment
kshuey@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85135
SSC 5426
On Sabbatical July 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Faculty Profile
Sean Waite, Assistant Professor
- social inequality
- LGBTQ and the labour market
- criminology and deviance
swaite3@uwo.ca
519 661-2111 x87689
SSC 5401
office hours: Tues. 1:00-2:00 pm
Faculty Profile
Andrea Willson, Associate Professor
Acting Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequalities in health
- Aging and the life course
- Social inequality
willson@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85132
SSC 5423
Faculty Profile
Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- health inequalities
- social epidemiology
- lifecourse and aging
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
519-661-2111 x85123
SSC 5330
office hours: Mondays 10:00-12:00 and 4:30-5:30
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