Faculty
Full-time
| Joan Allen M.A. (York) Assistant Professor 2114 Vari Hall ext. 60305 jallen@yorku.ca Interests: Work and Technology; Law; Theory; Aging ... more |
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| Karen Anderson Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor 2110 Vari Hall ext. 60304 karenand@yorku.ca Interests: Social Media; Teaching and Technology; Sociology of the Body; Neuro-Sociology ... more | |
![]() | Pat Armstrong Ph.D. (Carleton) Professor 2118 Vari Hall ext. 22550 patarmst@yorku.ca Interests: Health Policy and Politics; Women and Work; Social Theory; Political Economy. ... more |
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Alireza Asgharzadeh Ph.D. (O.I.S.E.,Toronto) Assistant Professor 823 N Ross ext. 22672 Interests: Sociology of Education; Race, Racism and Anti-racism; Social Inequality; Social Theory; Globalization, Diversity and Multiculturalism; Migration and Diasporas; Religion and Secularism; Middle Eastern Cultures and Societies. |
![]() | Himani Bannerji Ph.D. (O.I.S.E.,Toronto) Professor 2104 Vari Hall ext. 77993 himanib@yorku.ca Interests: Women and Development; Colonial and Post-Colonial; Social and Political Formations; Feminist Theory relative to Race and Class; Immigrant Women in Canada; Culture and Politics. ... more |
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Margaret Beare Ph.D. (Columbia) Professor 2060 Vari Hall ext. 77999 mbeare@osgoode.yorku.ca Interests: Social Control; Policing; Crime and Delinquency; Organized Crime; Women and Justice Issues; Criminology and Corrections. ...more |
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Kathy Bischoping Ph.D. (Michigan) Associate Professor 2086 Vari Hall ext. 77996 kbishop@yorku.ca Interests: Qualitative Methods; Quantitative Methods. ... more |
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Philip Boyle Ph.D (Alberta) Assistant professor 2082 Vari Hall ext. 77987 Interests: Security Governance; Urban Regulation; Law and Policy; Risk |
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Deborah Brock Ph.D. (O.I.S.E.Toronto) Associate Professor 2108 Vari Hall ext. 60302 dbrock@yorku.ca Interests: Social, Sexual and Moral Regulation; Sex Work; Governmentality; Sociolegal Studies, Sociology for Social Change. ... more |
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Sheila Cavanagh
Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 420 Atkinson ext. 22337 sheila@yorku.ca Interests: Gender and Sexuality; Body Studies; Trans Studies; Cultural Studies; Queer Pedagogy; Sex Museums. ... more |
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Rina Cohen Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2112 Vari Hall ext. 77991 rcohen@yorku.ca Interests: gender and reproductive labour, patterns of diaspora engagement, transnational migration and globalization, returning migration, intergenerational relations. ... more |
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Tania Das Gupta Ph.D. (Toronto) Professor 310 Atkinson ext. 66345 tdasgu@yorku.ca Interests: Race, Gender and Class in the Workplace; Labour Market; Families; Multiculturalism; South Asian Diaspora; Immigrant Women's Activism; Labour Movement. ... more |
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Deborah Davidson
Ph.D. (York) Assistant Professor 2115 Vari Hall ext. 60308 dwhatley@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Health and Illness; Reproduction; Dying, Death, and Bereavement; Disability; Qualitative Methods ...more |
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Lorna Erwin
Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2116 Vari Hall (416) 736-5014 lerwin@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Education; Difference, Inequality and Power; Qualitative Methods; Higher Education. ... more | |
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Amber Gazso Ph.D. (Alberta) Associate Professor 134 Founders College ext. 22558 agazso@yorku.ca Interests: Citizenship; Sociology of the Family and Intimate Relations; Sociology of Gender; Poverty; Social Policy; Research Methods. ... more |
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Jacqueline Gibbons Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor 134 McLaughlin College ext. 77273 jgibbons@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Culture; Gender; Incarceration. ... more | |
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Luin Goldring Ph.D. (Cornell) Associate Professor 240B York Lanes ext. 60311 goldring@yorku.ca Interests: Citizenship; Transnational Migration; Immigrant Political Incorporation; Precarious Work; Social Policy. ...more |
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Mark J. Goodman M.A. (California Berkeley) Assistant Professor 338 Atkinson ext. 33678 goodmanm@yorku.ca Interests: Social Theory; Slavery and Black Experience in the Americas. ... more | |
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Andil Gosine Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2148 Vari Hall ext. 77984 andil@yorku.ca Interests: Cultural Studies; Art; 'Race'- Racism, Gender and Sexuality; Environmental Justice. ...more |
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J. Paul Grayson Ph.D. (Toronto) Professor 438 Atkinson Building ext. 20484 grayson@yorku.ca Interests: Higher Educational Outcomes; Sociology of Work; Social Determinants of Health; Historical Sociology; Research Methodology. ... more | |
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Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Ph.D. (Laval) DEA (L' Université de Paris III, VII) Associate Professor 2102 Vari Hall ext. 77989 rhm@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Art and Culture; Political Sociology; Media; Gender and Post-Colonial Studies; Mediterranean and North African Societies. ... more |
| Barbara Hanson Ph.D. (Toronto) LL. B. (Osgoode) Professor hansonbg@yorku.ca Interests: Theory; Epistemology; Methods; Health; Gender. ... more | |
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Robert A. Kenedy Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 124 Winters College ext. 77458 rkenedy@yorku.ca Interests: Jewish Diaspora; Immigration and Citizenship; Ethnic Identity; Social and Political Movements; Qualitative Methodologies. ... more |
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Ann H. Kim Ph.D. (Brown) Associate Professor 839 York Research Tower ext. 22678 annkim@yorku.ca Interests: Immigrant and Ethnic Integration; Migration; Urban Sociology; Social Demography; Quantitative Methods. ... more |
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Fuyuki Kurasawa Ph.D. (La Trobe, Australia) Associate Professor 2088 Vari Hall ext. 77990 kurasawa@yorku.ca Interests: Classical and Contemporary Theory; Cultural Studies; Political Economy; Urban Sociology. ... more |
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Larry Lam Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2098 Vari Hall ext. 77995 larrylam@yorku.ca Interests: Migration and Refugee Studies; Race and Ethnic Relations; Transnationalism and Diaspora. ... more |
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Guida C. Man Ph.D. (Toronto) Assistant Professor 612 York Research Tower ext. 30269 gman@yorku.ca Interests: Women and Work; Family; Immigration; Transnational Migration; Immigrant Women; Chinese Diaspora. ... more |
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Nancy Mandell Ph.D. (Northeastern) Professor 2060C Vari Hall ext. 77999 mandell@yorku.ca Interests: Family; Intimacy and Care Work; Aging and Immigrants; Gender and Schooling; Qualitative Methods; Community-Academic Research Partnerships. ... more |
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Aryn Martin Ph.D. (Cornell) Associate Professor 2150 Vari Hall ext. 77985 aryn@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Science, Technology and Biomedicine; Feminist Theory; Sex, Gender and the Body; Self and Identity; Pregnancy and Risk Discourse. ... more |
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Radhika Mongia Ph.D. (Illinois) Associate Professor 2080 Vari Hall ext. 33913 rmongia@yorku.ca Interests: Feminist, Marxist and Postcolonial Theory; Political and Historical Sociology; Study of "Transnational" and "Global" Processes. ... more |
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Carmela Murdocca
Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor 2144 Vari Hall ext. 60308 murdocca@yorku.ca Interests: Colonialism; Race; Socio-Legal Studies; Law; Nationalism/Multiculturalism; Feminist/Postcolonial/Critical Race Theories. ...more | |
![]() | Eric Mykhalovskiy Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2078 Vari Hall ext. 66405 ericm@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Health, Illness, and Biomedicine; Social Organization of Knowledge, Textual Practices, Qualitative Methodology, HIV/AIDS. ... more |
| Zoë Newman
Ph.D. (Toronto) Assistant Professor ext. 66905 znewman@yorku.ca Interests: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Transnationalism; Gender and Sexuality; Feminist and Queer Theories; Cities and Nations more |
![]() | Michael Nijhawan
Ph.D. (Heidelberg) Associate Professor 2146 Vari Hall ext. 77994 nijhawan@yorku.ca Interests: Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Sociology and Anthropology of Violence; Transnational Religion and Diaspora; Popular Culture and Performance; South Asia, Germany. ... more |
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Michael Ornstein Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins) Associate Professor 5054 TEL Building ext. 77162 ornstein@yorku.ca Interests: Structured Social Inequality; Political Sociology; Canadian Society; Survey Methods. ... more |
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Hyun Ok Park Ph.D. (California, Berkeley) Associate Professor 2096 Vari Hall ext.77986 hopark@yorku.ca Interests: Global Capitalism; Marxism and Critical Theory ; Historical and Comparative studies; Postcoloniality; Historical Memory; and Korea and Korean Diaspora ... more |
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Alice Propper Ph.D. (Michigan) Associate Professor 228 McLaughlin College, ext. 77102 apropper@yorku.ca Interests: Violence By and Against Women and Children; Crime/Corrections/Deviance; Women's Studies; Family; Social Inequality. ... more | |
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Norene Pupo Ph.D. (McMaster) Associate Professor 6th Floor, York Research Tower, ext. 30205 npupo@yorku.ca Interests: Sociology of Work; Economic Sociology; Political Sociology; Formal Organizations; Social Policy. ... more |
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Rose Ricciardelli Ph.D. (McMaster) Assistant Professor 2152 Vari Hall ext. 60309 czarnuch@yorku.ca Interests: Gender and Gender Identity; Social Health and Well-being; Risk Perception and Experience; Sociology of Health and Illness; Masculinity, Criminology; Imprisonment, Wrongful Conviction; Qualitative Methods ... more |
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Karen L. Robson Ph.D. (Essex) Associate Professor N141E Ross ext. 33165 klrobson@yorku.ca Interests: Quantitative Methods; Social Stratification and Social Mobility; Comparative Sociology (Europe); Cultural Consumption; Young Parenthood; Life Course Analysis. ... more |
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Hira Singh Ph.D (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi) Associate Professor 2106 Vari Hall ext. 60301 hsingh@yorku.ca Interests: Social Theory; Social Inequality; Social Movements; Feudalism in Non-European and European Societies; Colonialism and Popular Protests; Empire and Indenture (South Africa). ... more |
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Glenn Stalker Ph.D. (Toronto) Assistant Professor 5056 TEL Building ext. 22556 gstalker@yorku.ca Interests: Interests: Quantitative Methods; Urban Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Work and Family; Cultural Sociology; Time-use. ... more | |
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Penni Stewart Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2084 Vari Hall ext. 77998 pstewart@yorku.ca Interests: Social Psychology; Application of Social Psychology to Women's Studies; Research in Interpersonal Processes; Status of Women in Ontario Universities. ... more |
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Mark Thomas Ph.D. (York) Associate Professor 2100 Vari Hall ext. 77992 mpthomas@yorku.ca Interests: Political Economy; Economic Sociology; Sociology of Work and Labour; Political Sociology; Social Policy. ... more |
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David Toews Ph.D (Warwick) Assistant Professor 2115 Vari Hall ext. 60307 dtoews@yorku.ca Interests: Social Interaction and Digital Media; Sociology of the Internet; Classical French Sociological Theory ... more |
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Philip Walsh Ph.D (Warwick) Associate Professor 2090 Vari Hall ext. 60310 walshp@yorku.ca Interests: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory; Political Sociology; Globalization; History of Social Thought; Sociology of Knowledge; Philosophy of Social Science. ... more |
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Lorna Weir Ph.D. (York) Professor 310 Founders College ext. 33198 lweir@yorku.ca Interests: Feminist Theory; Sexuality and Human Reproduction; Government and Textuality; Sociology of Language. ... more |
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Lesley Wood Ph.D. (Columbia) AssociateProfessor 2067 Vari Hall ext. 77988 ljwood@yorku.ca Interests: Social Movements; Globalization; Historical/Comparative Sociology; Police Repression. ... more |
Research Projects
- Nurses at Risk: Health Issues For Nurses
- Reimagining Long-Term Residential Care
- Criminal Conspiracies: Organized Crime in Canada
- Inquiring Into Policing
- Enclyclopedia: Transnational Crime and Justice
- Nora, Leaving Torvald
- The Praxis of Sociologists: An Ethnography of Activist Teaching and Research
- Gedoogbeleid:Social Regulation in the Netherlands, and the Implications for Canadian Social Policy
- Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
- Unisexification: Gender and Commodity Culture
- Transnational Migration Trajectories of Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada: Strategies of Work and Family
- Embodied Grief and Tattoos as Memorialization: Comparisons Among Types of Losses
- Use of the Internet and Griefwork in Perinatal Loss
- Managing Poverty/Intergenerationally/ in Diverse Families: Piecing Together a Network of Social Support
- Immigrants and Precarious Employment in the GTA.
- Latin American Community Organizing and Politics
- Research Alliance on Precarious Status (working group on precarious status)
- A Social History of Canadian University Students in the 1060s >> 1960s
- Contemporary Students' Experiences and Educational Outcomes
- Development, Migration Strategies and Prospects for Integration: Understanding Contemporary Transnationalism Among South Korean Families
- An Analysis of Public and Private Discourses of Education Migration in Canadian Schools: A Case Study of South Korean Families
- Public Intellectuals on the Right? Irving Kristol and the Emergence of Neoconservatism in the U.S.
- Canada in American Eyes: Taking Stock of Canada's New Visibility
- Worked to Death. Economic Security among Canadian Senior Immigrants.
- Evidence Matters: Community-based Approaches to HIV Prevention
- Sex Crimes: HIV Non-disclosure and Risk Governance in Canada
- Predicaments of a Post-Conflict Generation: A Comparative Study of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Diaspora Formations
- Desire for Return: Neoliberal Democracy, Historical Memory, and Transnational Migration in Post-Cold War Asia
- Capital, Class and Culture in Asia: Histories and Futures of the Question of Political Subjectivity and Forms of Freedom (collaboration project)
- Displaced Workers and Their Communities
- The Childfree Life Course
- Choice Mothers
- The Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Study
- The Effects of Family Structure Changes on the Well-Being of Youth
- From Labour Rights to Human Rights: Emerging Approaches to Labour Standards in the Global Economy
- The Influence of Digital Media on Sociability and Unsociability
- Enforcing Employment Standards in Ontario
- The Significance of the Work of Hannah Arendt for the Social Sciences
- Biosecurity and Synthetic Biology
- The Policing of Protest: 1995-2005





































