Experts
Teresa Abada, Associate Professor

- Social, cultural, human capital;
- Migration;
- Immigrant health;
- Immigrant integration;
- Economic and social integration of children of immigrants
SSC 5429
519-661-2111 x83690
tabada@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Tracey Adams, Professor

- Work;
- Professions;
- Regulation of professions in Canada;
- Social inequality;
- Gendered professions;
- Health professions
SSC 5328
519-661-2111 x85120
tladams@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Dale Ballucci, Assistant Professor

- Sociology of Law;
- Sociology of childhood;
- Criminology and Policing;
- Young offenders;
- Theories of Governance;
- Administration of the criminal justice system
SSC 5403
519-661-2111 x85140
dballucc@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor

- Economic Sociology;
- Inequality;
- Gender;
- Work;
- Poverty;
- Social policy
SSC 5402
519-661-2111 x81380
dcalnits@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kate H. Choi, Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Research on Social Inequality

- Social inequality;
- Social Stratification;
- International migration;
- Family demography;
- Racial and socioeconomic disparities
SSC 5331
519-661-2111 x85115
kate.choi@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor

- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility;
- Life course;
- Education;
- Labour markets;
- Union and non-union influences on wages
SSC 5407
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Janice Forsyth, Associate Professor

- Aboriginal physical practices, health, and identity;
- Power relations and the body;
- Sociology of sport;
- Sport and Canadian culture;
- Canadian sport history
SSC 5211
519-661-2111 x84849
janice.forsyth@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Michael Gardiner, Professor

- Sociological theory;
- Theories of affect (especially boredom);
- Sociology of the everyday;
- Utopia;
- Dialogical social theory (the work of Mikhail Bakhtin in particular)
SSC 5424
519-661-2111 x85139
megardin@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Michael Haan, Associate Professor
Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western

- Demography;
- Immigrant settlement;
- Labour market integration;
- Migration;
- Data development;
- Longitudinal data analysis
SSC 5412
519-661-2111 x85110
michael.haan@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anders Holm, Professor

- Quantitative methods;
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse;
- Social stratification;
- Inter-generational mobility;
- Sociology of health
SSC 5327
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Laura Huey, Professor

- Policing;
- Criminal victimization;
- Mental health;
- Extremism;
- Qualitative research methods;
- Evidence based policy-making
SSC 5213
519-661-2111 x85151
lhuey@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor

- Social inequality;
- Social class;
- Sociology of work;
- Higher education;
- Vocational education;
- School-work transitions
SSC 5430
519-661-2111 x85385
wlehmann@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Rachel Margolis, Associate Professor
Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology

- Demography;
- Social inequality;
- Family change;
- Aging
SSC 5326
519-661-2111 x82850
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kaitlynn Mendes, Associate Professor

- Gender inequality;
- Social media;
- Sexual violence;
- Youth;
- Mixed methods research
SSC 5415
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anabel Quan-Haase, Professor

- New media and social change;
- Digital activism;
- Social media;
- Social networks;
- Digital social capital;
- Scholarly digital communication
SSC 5413
519-661-2111 x86952
aquan@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Howard Ramos, Professor
Chair, Sociology

- Political sociology;
- Immigration;
- Equity, diversity, inclusion;
- Social change;
- Media studies;
- Secondary cities
SSC 5316
519-661-2111 x85142
howard.ramos@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Scott Schaffer, Associate Professor

- Contemporary and global social theory;
- Processes of social change;
- Social inclusion;
- Social ethics;
- Public sociology;
- Cultural critique, and Resistance movements
SSC 5411
519-661-2111 x85122
scott.schaffer@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kim Shuey, Associate Professor

- Health and disability across the life course;
- Transmission of health across generations;
- Precarious employment, work and health;
- Environmental sociology.
SSC 5426
519-661-2111 x85135
kshuey@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Sean Waite, Assistant Professor

- Social inequality;
- Gender inequality;
- Higher education outcomes;
- LGBTQ and the labour market;
- LGBTQ identity, poverty and health;
- Criminology and deviance
SSC 5401
519-661-2111 x87689
swaite3@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Andrea Willson, Associate Professor

- Social inequality over the life course;
- Aging and the life course;
- Health effects of socioeconomic status across generations;
- Quantitative research
SSC 5423
519-661-2111 x85132
willson@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Yoko Yoshida, Associate Professor

- Immigration and integration;
- Social statistics;
- Race and ethnicity;
- Social inequality;
- Inequality in health
SSC 5409
519-661-2111 x85045
yoko.yoshida@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology

- Social epidemiology;
- Health inequalities;
- Demography;
- Lifecourse and aging;
- Ethnicity;
- Quantitative methods
SSC 5330
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile