Full-Time Faculty
Teresa Abada, Associate Professor
Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations (MER)
Acting Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
- Social, cultural, human capital
- Migration
- Immigrant health
- Immigrant integration
- Economic and social integration of children of immigrants
519-661-2111 x83690
tabada@uwo.ca
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Tracey Adams, Professor
- Work
- Professions
- Regulation of professions in Canada
- Social inequality
- Gendered professions
- Health professions
Robert Andersen, Professor (cross-listed)
- Social stratification
- Democracy and capitalism
- Political economy
- Business environments
- Inequality
- Values and attitudes
519-661-3987
bob.andersen@ivey.ca
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Dale Ballucci, Associate Professor
- Sociology of Law
- Sociology of childhood
- Criminology and Policing
- Young offenders
- Theories of Governance
- Administration of the criminal justice system
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
David Calnitsky, Assistant Professor
- Economic Sociology
- Inequality
- Gender
- Work
- Poverty
- Social policy
Kate H. Choi, Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Research on Social Inequality
- Social Demography
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Inequality
- Family Sociology
- Racial Inequality
- Quantitative Methodology
Lorraine Davies, Associate Professor
Associate Vice-Provost, School of Graduate and Post-Doctoral Studies
- Family structure and health
- Gender inequality and social policy
- Interpersonal relationships and well-being
- Gender and mental health
- Intimate partner violence
519-661-2111 x81335
ldavies@uwo.ca
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Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility
- Life course
- Education
- Labour markets
- Union and non-union influences on wages
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
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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
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)
519-661-2111 x85139
megardin@uwo.ca
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Jasmine Ha, Assistant Professor
- International migration
- Migration statistics
- International education
- Globalization
- Sustainability
519-661-2111 x85118
jasmine.ha@uwo.ca
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Michael Haan, Associate Professor
Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
- Demography
- Immigrant settlement
- Labour market integration
- Migration
- Data development
- Longitudinal data analysis
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Warren E. (Ted) Hewitt, Professor
President, SSHRC
- Brazil
- Social movements
- Development and underdevelopment
- Local government and population health
- International cooperation for urban development in Latin America
ON LEAVE
hewitt@uwo.ca
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Anders Holm, Professor
- Quantitative methods
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse
- Social stratification
- Inter-generational mobility
- Sociology of health
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
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Tess Hooks, Lecturer
- Social inequality
- Social change and development
- Gender
- Women and third world development
- Motherhood and mothering
519-661-2111 x 84611
thooks@uwo.ca
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Laura Huey, Professor
- Policing
- Criminal victimization
- Mental health
- Extremism
- Qualitative research methods
- Evidence based policy-making
519-661-2111 x85151
lhuey@uwo.ca
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Brenda Kobayashi
- Youth justice
- Youth and society
- Punishment
- Socio-legal studies
- Law and society
- Criminology
Mila Kolpashnikova, Assistant Professor
- Time use
- Gendered division of labour
- East Asia
- Demography
- Quantitative sociology
519-661-2111 x87177
kkolpash@uwo.ca
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Wolfgang Lehmann, Professor
Assistant Dean, Student Experience, Faculty of Social Science
- Social inequality
- Social class
- Sociology of work
- Higher education
- Vocational education
- School-work transitions
519-661-2111 x85385
wlehmann@uwo.ca
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Rachel Margolis, Professor
Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Demography
- Social inequality
- Family change
- Aging
519-661-2111 x82850
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
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Julie McMullin, Professor
- Social Inequality
- Aging and the Life Course
- Gender Inequality
- Family
- Paid and Unpaid Work
519 661-2111 x83689
mcmullin@uwo.ca
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Kaitlynn Mendes, Associate Professor
- Gender inequality
- Social media
- Sexual violence
- Youth
- Mixed methods research
519-661-2111 x87356
kaitlynn.mendes@uwo.ca
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Robert Nonomura, Assistant Professor
- Gender-Based Violence
- Sociology of Morality
- Trauma- and Violence-Informed Research
- Knowledge Mobilization and Public Sociology
Lora Phillips, Assistant Professor
- Inequality
- Precarity
- Vulnerable populations
- Health and well-being
- Urban sociology
Anabel Quan-Haase, Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Information and Media Studies
- New media and social change
- Digital activism
- Social media
- Social networks
- Digital social capital
- Scholarly digital communication
519-661-2111 x86952
aquan@uwo.ca
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Howard Ramos, Professor
Chair, Department of Sociology
- Political sociology
- Immigration
- Equity, diversity, inclusion
- Social change
- Media studies
- Secondary cities
519-661-2111 x85142
howard.ramos@uwo.ca
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Scott Schaffer, Associate Professor
- Contemporary and global social theory
- Processes of social change
- Social inclusion
- Social ethics
- Public sociology
- Cultural critique, and Resistance movements
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Kim Shuey, Professor
- Health and disability across the life course
- Transmission of health across generations
- Precarious employment, work and health
- Environmental sociology.
Sean Waite, Associate Professor
- Social inequality
- Gender inequality
- Higher education outcomes
- LGBTQ and the labour market
- LGBTQ identity, poverty and health
- Criminology and deviance
On Leave - July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024
Andrea Willson, Associate Professor
- Social inequality over the life course
- Aging and the life course
- Health effects of socioeconomic status across generations
- Quantitative research
Yoko Yoshida, Associate Professor
- Immigration and integration
- Social statistics
- Race and ethnicity
- Social inequality
- Inequality in health
519-661-2111 x85045
yoko.yoshida@uwo.ca
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Anna Zajacova, Professor
- Social epidemiology
- Health inequalities
- Demography
- Lifecourse and aging
- Ethnicity
- Quantitative methods
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
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