“Ten faculty and staff members who were nominated this year and in previous rounds of the program, are being honoured as recurring, ‘Superstar’ Champions for Mental Health. Superstar Champion sociology teaching assistant Megan Ingram told the Student Mental Health Collective that they “recognize students as people with expansive lives, of which their academic work is just one part.
Dr. Nicole Myers comments on Canada's bail system in an address to the Justice Committee. She also comments on claims that Pierre Poilievre's proposal for bail reform isn't constitutionally sound, in an article by the Canadian Press.
Part of Dr. Saulnier's research focus is how police use of technology affects relationships with the communities they serve. In a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance, she describes how historically interpersonal interactions between police and citizens are changing to take on technologically mediated or automated forms, and how these changes relate to discussions of race and policing.
Alana Saulnier and Victoria A. Sytsma, "," Policing and Society 33, no. 6, 2023.
The Department of Sociology is remembering our dear friend and colleague Elia Zureik, Professor in the Department between 1971 and 2005, and Emeritus Professor from 2005. He was a major international figure, a prolific author and intellectual, as well as a treasured colleague. We share ongoing reflections below.
Vince Sacco (Emeritus Professor, Sociology)
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BA (York University); MA (University of Toronto); PhD (McGill University)
Sociology
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Gender; Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Islam; Middle East and North Africa; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Qualitative Methods and Methodologies
Given my academic background in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies, my research interests are fundamentally interdisciplinary. Broadly, I seek to understand the structural inequalities faced by Queer and Trans Black Indigenous and People of Colour (QTBIPOC) populations at the macro, meso, and micro level. Methodologically, I combine feminist and social scientific methods with intersectional frameworks to think about social justice and social change.
My research with Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary (QTN) Muslims examines intracommunity marginalization. Its main insight is that the presumed irreconcilability between Islam and gender/sexual liberation conceals the social and structural barriers that QTN Muslims face. I am also interested in the ways that racism and capitalism contribute to the representation of Middle Eastern/Muslim sexuality and gender and the ways that researchers can impact the circulation and politicization of such representations.
Currently, I am working on three new projects: the first is a co-edited volume on LGBTQ religious activism and its implications for social movements research. The second is a comparative study of identity-centric social movements. The third project takes a systematic look at cancel culture, especially as it relates to structural inequality.
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Sociology
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Sociology
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