Faculty and Staff

Chair: Kate Bezanson

Staff   
Debbie Crossthwaite: Administrative Assistant - 905-688-5550 ext. 3455
Jill DeBon: Administrative Coordinator - 905-688-5550 ext. 4573
Viola Bartel: Department Administrator/Academic Advisor  
Elizabeth Maddeaux: Undergraduate Assistant Advisor - 905-688-5550 ext. 5884
Julia Gottli: Administrative Coordinator MA in Critical Sociology- 905-688-5550 ext. 4576

Faculty
BEZANSON, Kate
BUTOVSKY, Jonah
CONWAY, Janet
COOK, Nancy (MA Program Profile)
CORMAN, June
CORMAN, Lauren
DELIOVSKY, Kathy
DOUCET, Andrea
DUFFY, Ann (MA Program Profile)
DUNK, Tom
EZEONU, Ifeanyi
FRANCIS, Margot
GLENDAY, Daniel G. (MA Program Profile)
GOSINE, Kevin
HELLEINER, Jane (MA Program Profile)
ISLA, Ana
KITOSSA, Tamari
KNUTTILA, Murray
MONTAZER, Shirin
PARK, Hijin
RADDON, Mary-Beth
SMITH, Murray E. G. (MA Program Profile)
SORENSON, John S. (MA Program Profile)
SORON, Dennis
WEBBER, Michelle

Sessional Instructors 
CUMMING, Sara
DUMONT, Josh
FERENTZY, Peter
PALAMAREK, Mike
POSNIAK, Kinga
ST. GERMAINE-SMALL, Melissa
SZTYBEL, David
WALL, Denis
INKOOM, Robert
 
Faculty Profiles

Kate Bezanson, PhD
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Office: AS 419
Phone: 905-688-5550 ext. 3457
Email: socichair@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, York University
MA, York University
BA, Trent University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 1F90: Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 4Q41 Social Policy

Graduate:
SJES 5P50: Labour and Family

Biography

Kate Bezanson (PhD York 2002, MA York 1996, BA Trent 1995) works in the areas of social and labour market policy, comparative and Canadian political economy, feminist and welfare state theory and international development. She worked as a policy analyst for the Caledon Institute of Social Policy before joining the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Programme in Social Justice and Equity Studies Programme.

Dr. Bezanson’s recent work focuses on the relationship between federal conservative social policy, neoliberal economic policy and gender. Specifically, she is interested in how families manage through economic downturns as federal-provincial relations and policy landscapes are transformed. Her published books include Gender, the State and Social Reproduction: Household Insecurity in Ontario in the late 1990s (2006, University of Toronto Press), Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism (2006, McGill-Queen's University Press) and Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy (2005, Fernwood Press). She is currently the Chair of the Sociology Department.

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Jonah Butovsky
Associate Professor
Office: AS 406
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4371
E-mail: jbutovsky@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, McGill University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 4P37: Exploring Alternatives to Capitalism
SOCI 3P12: Advanced Quantitative Analysis
SOCI 4P15: Advanced Critical Analysis

Graduate:
SJES 5P20: Domination and Resistance

Biography

Jonah Butovsky teaches quantitative methods and political sociology. He has a BA from McGill University and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Professor Butovsky has published articles on Canadian political values, migrant agricultural workers in the Niagara Region, and on the presentation of survey data in the press. He is currently working on one project that examines the political potential of Canadian popular music and another that studies the effects of left-nationalism on the development of Canadian socialism. Professor Butovsky is involved in the labour movement, and is on the executive of the Niagara and District Labour Council.

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Janet Conway
Canada Research Chair in Social Justice / Associate Professor
Office: Academic South 400A
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4196
Email: jconway@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, Political Science, York University, 2002
MA, Political Science, York University, 2000
MA, Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, 1990
BA Hons., History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1984

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 3P46: Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian and Global Perspectives
SOCI 4P68 : Social Movements and Globalization

Graduate:
SOCI 5P20: Globalization, Inequality and Social Change
SJES 5P80: New Politics of Global Justice
SJES 5P60: Homan Rights and Social Justice

Biography

My area of research is contemporary social movements, in particular the knowledge arising from activist practice and its significance for reinventing emancipatory politics. My recent work has focused on the politics of difference and recognition among the social movements of the World Social Forum—especially on the problem of “colonial difference”. This has involved several vectors of research. One is to focus on the feminisms at the WSF. Feminism as a social movement, political tradition, and body of knowledge is arguably the most developed in recognizing, engaging and theorizing difference while remaining concerned about the grounds for ethical politics and practical solidarity. A second focus has been on the indigenous presence and positionality at the WSF. This research has resulted in a recent book: Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and Its Others. Routledge, 2012.

I have two research projects in development. The first is on the Occupy Wall Street movement, focusing on its Canadian expressions in relation to the North American movement and other anti-austerity and alternative democracy movements emerging in other world regions. The second is on the World March of Women and its relations with movements for food sovereignty. Both these projects are collaborative research projects for which we are seeking SSHRC funding and for which we will be seeking student researchers.
 

Recent Selected Publications

Refereed Articles

2012 “Transnational feminisms building anti-globalization alliances” Globalizations 9,3, Summer 2012. In press.
2011 “Activist knowledges on the anti-globalization terrain: transnational feminisms at the World Social Forum” Interface: a journal for and about social movements 3, 2, November 2011, 33-64.

2011 Co-authored by Janet Conway and Jakeet Singh. “Radical democracy in global perspective: notes from the pluriverse.” Third World Quarterly 32, 4, May 2011, 689-706.

2011 “Cosmopolitan or colonial? The World Social Forum as ‘contact zone’” Third World Quarterly 32, 2, March 2011, 217-236.

2010 Co-authored by Pascale Dufour and Janet Conway. “Emerging visions of another world? Tensions and collaboration at the Quebec Social Forum.” Journal of World Systems Research, XVI, 1 Winter 2010, 29-47.

2009 Co-authored by Janet Conway and Jakeet Singh. “Is the World Social Forum a transnational public sphere? Nancy Fraser, critical theory and the containment of radical possibility.” Theory, Culture and Society. 26, 5 (September): 61-84.

2008 “Reading Nairobi: Place, Space and Difference at the 2007 World Social Forum,” Societies Without Borders 3,1: Special Journal Issue on the World Social Forum, eds. Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada. Brill. 48-70.

Books
2012 Edges of Global Justice: the World Social Forum and Its ‘Others’. New York & London: Routledge.

2006. Praxis and Politics: Knowledge Production in Social Movements. New York & London: Routledge.

2004. Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Book Chapters
2012 “Ethnographic Approaches to Transnational Politics: Writing the World Social
Forum,” in Insurgent Encounters: Ethnography, Activism, and the Transnational, Jeffrey S. Juris and Alex Khasnabish, eds. Duke University Press. In press.

2012 “Local to global: Place, scale and the politics of recognition at the World Social Forum.” World Social Forum: Challenging Empires Globally, eds. Jai Sen and Peter Waterman. New Delhi: Open Word Books. In press.

2011 Co-authored by Pascale Dufour and Janet Conway. “Diverging visions of another world in the making of the Quebec Social Forum.” Handbook of the World Social Forums, eds. Jackie Smith, Scott Byrd, Ellen Reese, and Elizabeth Smythe. Paradigm Press, pp. 266-282.

2010 Co-authored by Pascale Dufour, Janet Conway and Raphaël Canet, “Les dynamiques de l’altermondialsime au Québec,” in Altermondialisme: un état des lieux, eds. Pierre Beaudet, Marie-Josée Massicotte, and Raphaël Canet. Montréal: Écosociété, pp. 201-220

2010 “Troubling transnational feminism(s) at the World Social Forum,” Solidarities without borders: transnationalizing women’s movements, eds. Dominique Masson, Pascale Dufour, and Dominique Caouette. University of British Columbia Press, 149-172.

2009 “The empire, the movement and the politics of scale: Considering the World Social Forum.” Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale, eds. Roger Keil and Rianne Mahon. University of British Columbia Press, 281-299.
 

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Nancy Cook
Associate Professor/Graduate Program Director
Office: AS 416
Phone: 905-688-5550 ext. 3176
Email: ncook@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, York University (Sociology)
MA, York University (Sociology)
HBA, Brock University (Sociology/Women’s Studies)

Research Interests:

• feminist, poststructural and postcolonial social theory
• qualitative methodology
• gender and imperialism
• cultural globalisation
• gender and globalisation
• transcultural interactions
• Muslim women in Pakistan
• the social impacts of road construction in northern Pakista
• (im)mobilities in the rural Global South

Click here for Dr. Cook's homepage.

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 1F90: Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 2P12: Qualitative and Observational Methods
SOCI 2P20: Sexualities and Society
SOCI 4P51: Gender Relations in Global Perspective

Graduate:
SJES 5P40: Gender and Sexuality and Social Justice
SOCI 5P50: Critical Sociologies of Gender and Sexuality

Biography

I have written a book and several articles on transcultural interactions between Western women development workers and local populations in northern Pakistan. My current writing examines professional development workers who lived in Pakistan for an extended period of time to understanding how their experiences of working abroad have affected their lives back in Canada. In a new project I am studying the impacts of a newly opened road to Shimshal, northern Pakistan on women’s lives and gender relations in the village.

Publications:

2012. Canadian Development Workers, Transcultural Encounters and Cultures of Cosmopolitanism. International Sociology 27 (1) : 3-19.

2012. 'I'm here to Help': Development Workers, the Politics of Benevolence and Critical Literacy. In Vanessa Andreotti   and Lynn De Souze (eds.), Poscolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education. London: Routledge, pp. 124-139.

2011. Introduction: Gender, Power and Transcultural Relations. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 10(3) : 340-350.

2011. David Butz and Nancy Cook. Accessibility interrupted: The Shimshal road, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Canadian Geographer, 55(3): 354-364.

2011. Nancy Cook and David Butz. Narratives of Accessibility and Social Change in Shimshal Northern Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development, 31(1): 27-34

2008. Shifting the Focus of Development: Turning 'Helping' into Self-Reflexive Learning. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices 2(1), 16-26.

2008. Deveoping Transnational Relations and Subjectives: The Politics of Virtue and Empowerment in Gilgit, Nothern Pakistan. Resources for Feminist Research 32(3/4). 115-141.

2008. Development Workers, Transcultural Interactions and Imperial Relations in Northern Pakistan. In William Coleman and Diana Brydon (eds.), Globalisation, Autonomy and Community. University of British Columbia Press, p. 216-233. 

2007. Gender, Identity and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2007. (ed.) Gender Relations in Global Perspective: Essential Readings. Toronto:  Canadian Scholar’s Press. 

2007. Gendering Globalisation: Imperial Domesticity and Identity in Northern Pakistan. Globalisation and Autonomy Working Paper Series. http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/research.jsp

2006. Bazaar Stories of Gender, Sexuality and Imperial Space in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies , 5(2), 230-257.

2006. Dealing with Danger: Spatial and Mechanical Manipulations in Gilgit, Pakistan. Gender, Technology and Development , 10, 191-210.

2005. What to Wear, What to Wear?: Western Women and Imperialism in Gilgit, Pakistan. Qualitative Sociology, 28(4), 349-367.

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June Corman

Associate Dean
Office: SBH 329
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4205
Email: jcorman@brocku.ca

Associate Dean, Undergraduate, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, June Corman is co-author (with Meg Luxton) of Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour At Home and on the Job (University of Toronto Press, 2001), which received Honourable Mention for the John Porter Prize 2002. Research interests include: women and work, and social reproduction. She is author of articles on women working in the steel industry, in the education sector, and on farms.  Housed in Sociology, she is also involved with Women's Studies and Labour Studies.

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Lauren Corman
Assistant Professor
Office: AS 423
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5080
E-mail: lcorman@brocku.ca

Biography

Dr. Lauren Corman teaches classes in the area of Critical Animal Studies, which engages an intersectional approach to "the question of the animal." As such, Dr. Corman's interdisciplinary scholarship draws on animal rights/liberation, posthumanist, feminist, critical race, labour and environmental theories and practices. Much of her graduate work focused on an analysis of Canadian and US slaughterhouses, with emphasis on the industrialized exploitation of pigs. Her dissertation, The Ventriloquist’s Burden? Animals, Voice, and Politics analysed voice and its relationship to nonhuman animal subjectivities. This project was inspired in part through her many years as the host and producer of the weekly animal issues radio program, Animal Voices, on CIUT 89. FM in Toronto. Her current research interests include animal agency and resistance, theories of abjection, and coalition-building among social justice movements. Lauren has been interviewed for Satya, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, and Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism. She was the guest editor for "Animal," the newest issue of Undercurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies.

Selected Publications

Corman, L. (2011). Impossible Subjects: The Figure of the Animal in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Journal of Environmental Education, 16, 29-45.

Corman, L. (2011). Getting Their Hands Dirty: Raccoons, Freegans, and "Urban Trash." Journal for Critical Animal Studies, LX, 3, 28-61.

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Kathy Deliovsky
Assistant Professor
Office: TBA
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5267
E-mail: kdeliovsky@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, McMaster University
MA, McMaster University
BA (Hons.), York University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:

SOCI 1F90: Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 2P12: Qualitative and Observational Methods
SOCI 2P21: Sociology of Families
SOCI 3P47: Race and Ethnicity
SOCI 4P47: Racism and Anti-Racism
SOCI 4P51: Gender and Society

Biography

Kathy Deliovsky's teaching and research interests include gendered processes of racialization, racism and anti-racism, anti-racist feminist theory, critical race studies and social inequality. Her book, White Femininity: Race, Gender and Power (2010), examines the racialized dimensions of European Canadian women's identities and experiences. By exploring the complex and interconnected locations of race privilege and gender oppression European Canadian women occupy, her research aims to contribute to the ongoing development of anti-racist feminist theory. Dr. Deliovsky is collaborating with Dr. Tamari Kitossa on research that explores the experiences and perceptions of interracial couples and 'repressive tolerance'. She has published book chapters and articles on the gendered dimensions of racialization and anti-racist feminist theory. She is the co-editor (with Njoki Wane and Erica Lawson) of Back to the Drawing Board: African Canadian Feminisms.

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Andrea Doucet
Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care/
Professor of Sociology
Women's and Gender Studies
Office: AS 401A
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3150
Email: adoucet@brocku.ca
           andreadoucet@mac.com

Education

PhD, Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University
MA, International Development Studies, Norman School of International Relations, Carleton University
BA Political Science (Political Theory) York University

Teaching
I plan to teach the following courses 2012-2013.

Graduate:
SOCI 5P50 DUR 2: Critical Sociologies of Gender and Sexuality

Undergraduate:
WISE 3P91 DUR 3: Contemporary Feminist Research Methods

Research Interests:
My research interests are encapsulated in four areas:

(i) Gender, work, and care:

• Relations between paid and unpaid work;
• Changing motherhood and fatherhood;
• Breadwinning mothers and caregiving fathers;
• Gender divisions and relations of labour;
• Cross-generational practices and meanings of work, care and consumption;
• Digital subjectivities (mommy/daddy blogging)

(ii) Careful and Engaged Knowing:

• Quantitative research methodologies;
• Narrative, visual and digital methods;
• Epistemological and methodological issues involved in attempting to know and represent the narratives of others;
• Reflexive and relational knowing;

(iii) International comparative social policies, especially parental leave.

(iv) Connection sociological narratives, fiction, and creative non-fiction

• This is an emergent area of interest/passion that links the social sciences and humanities, and issues of representation, method, and life writing.

For more information on research, writing, and publications, please visit my web site:
http://www.andreadoucet.com/

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Ann Duffy
Professor of Sociology 
Office: AS 404
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3517
E-mail: aduffy@brocku.ca

Education
PhD, McMaster University
MA, McMaster University
BA (Hons.), McMaster University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 2P52: Socialization
SOCI 2P10: Critical Thinking and Expression
SOCI 3P58: Women and Aging
SOCI 4P32: Advanced Seminar in Work

Graduate:
SOCI 5P80: Problems and Possibilities in Economic Life
SJES 5P01: Graduate Seminar
SJES 5P03: Research Methods in Social Justice and Equity Studies

Biography

Ann Duffy teaches in the area of work and employment, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and age inequalities. Currently, she is completing a SSHRC research project with Professors June Corman and Norene Pupo (York University) examining the impact of de-industrialization on the lives and communities of workers in Welland. Here, there is particular attention to the issues of women industrial workers. Professor Duffy has published extensively in the areas of work and employment, sociology of the family, family conflict and violence, violence against women, and poverty in Canada. A portion of her publishing has been directed to the development of textbooks in the areas of the sociology of the family, the sociology of work and introductory sociology. Professor Duffy is an active participant in the Department of Labour Studies and in the M.A. in Critical Sociology and the M.A. in Social Justice and Equity Studies.

Selected Recent Publications:

Duffy, A. 2011. “Families in Tough Times: The Impact of Economic Crises on Canadian Families.” Pp. 164-210 in N. Mandell and A. Duffy (eds.) Canadian Families: Diversity, Conflict, and Change. 4th Edition. Toronto: Nelson.

Duffy, A. 2011. “The Lengthening Shadow of Employment: Working Time Re-examined.” Pp. 155-176 in N. Pupo, D. Glenday and A. Duffy (eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work. Toronto: Nelson.

Duffy A. (and N. Pupo). 2012. “Unpaid work, capital and coercion.” Work organisation, labour and globalisation. 6(1): 27-47.

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Thomas Dunk

Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
Office: Scotiabank Hall 323
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3425
Email: tdunk@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, McGill University
MA, McGill University
BA (Honours), University of Alberta

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 4P53: Masculinities, Culture and Economy

Biography

Thomas Dunk is currently Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Scoiology. In recent years, his teaching has focused on social theory (both classical and contemporary), economic sociology and anthropology, environmentalism, and masculinity. His research interests include masculinity in working-class culture and history, regional development and economic restructuring and environmental controversies. His current research is concerned with the relationships between economic restructuring and environmental conflicts in Canada and France, especially those related to hunting and carnivore protection, and the politics of gender, region and national identities. He is also working on a project with colleagues in Canada and Norway in the era of the knowledge-based, new economy.

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Ifeanyi Ezeonu
Associate Professor
Office: AS 424
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4054
Email: iezeonu@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
M.Phil, University of Cambridge
MA, University of Leeds
BSc, Anambra State University of Technology

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 2P33: Law and Social Justice
SOCI 2P62: The Criminal Justice System
SOCI 3P62: Youth Justice System
SOCI 3P67: Crime and the Media
SOCI 3P68: Gang Violence
SOCI 4P61: Advanced Topics in Criminal Justice

Graduate:
SOCI 5P30: Engaging Criminology in the 21st Century

Biography

Dr. Ezeonu received his B.Sc. (Honours) from the Anambra State University of Technology (now, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria), M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, England, M.A. from the University of Leeds, England and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. He has published on issues of social and economic justice in Sub-Saharan Africa. His present research interests include: gang violence, racialised crime, the social construction of crime, transnational crime, environmental crime in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, and contemporary African Diaspora.

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Margot Francis
Associate Professor
Office: MCD 333
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5381
Email: mfrancis@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, OISE, University of Toronto
MEd, OISE, University of Toronto
BA, University of Western Ontario

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
WISE 1F90: Introduction to Women’s Studies
WISE 3P91: Feminist Research Methods
SOCI 3P20: Queer Communities and Popular Culture
SOCI 3P51: Gender and Society

Biography

Margot Francis is an Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, cross appointed to the Department of Sociology. She teaches courses on queer communities and popular culture, the construction of gender and race in Canadian culture and the Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies. Her research interests include: feminist and post-colonial perspectives on settler societies, critical explorations of culture, arts and identity and integrative approaches to gender, sexuality and the body.  Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Policy Studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (2002).

Francis’ book, Creative Subversion: Whiteness and Indigeneity in the National Imaginary (UBC Press, 2011) explores how whiteness and Indigeneity are articulated through iconic images of Canadian identity - and the contradictory and contested meanings these images evoke. These benign, even kitschy symbols, she argues, are haunted by ideas about race, masculinity, and sexuality that circulated during the formative years of Anglo-Canadian nationhood. Through a richly illustrated text Francis explores how national symbols such as the beaver, the railway, the wilderness of Banff National Park, and ideas about 'Indianness' evoke nostalgic versions of the past that cannot be expelled or assimilated. The irony is that insofar as Canadian consume versions of a past that do not nourish, the living can themselves become ghostly. Juxtaposing historical images with work by contemporary artists she explores how artists are giving taken-for-granted symbols new and suggestive meanings. From director Richard Fung's Dirty Laundry, to the work of Indigeneous artists Jeff Thomas and Kent Monkman, to Shauna Dempsey and Lorri Milan's performance work Lesbian Park Rangers, the book explores how banal objects can be re-imagined in ways that offer the possibility of moving from an unproblematized possession by the past to an imaginative reconsideration of it.

Recent Refereed Journal Articles

Sarita Srivastava and Margot Francis, “The Problem of ‘Authentic Experience’: ‘Storytelling’ in Anti-Racism and Anti-Homophobia Education.” Critical Sociology. Special Issue on Race. 32(2-3): pp. 275-307. Wayne State University Press, Summer 2006.

“The strange career of the Canadian beaver: anthropomorphic discourses and imperial history.” The Journal of Historical Sociology. Blackwell Publishers, July 2004.

Book Chapters

“The Myth of Sexual Orientation: 'field notes' from the personal, pedagogical and historical discourses of identity," in Maureen Fitzgerald and Scott Rayter eds. Queerly Canadian. Canadian Scholars' Press, 2012.

"The Imaginary Indian: Unpakcking the Romance and Domination," in D. Brock, R. Raby and M. Thomas eds., Power and Everyday Practice, Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd., 2011.

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Daniel Glenday
Professor of Sociology
Office: AS 405
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3456
E-mail: dglenday@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, Carleton University
MA, McGill University
BA, Concordia University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 1F90: Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 3P55: The Sociology of Professional Wrestling

Biography

Professor Glenday grew up in Quebec where he received an Honors' BA from Sir George Williams University (now, Concordia University). After spending a year in Europe, he returned to Canada to continue graduate work, and received his MA from McGill University and his PhD from Carleton University.

He has been awarded three Social Science and Humanities Research Council grants totaling over $180,000. His publications include "Modernization and the Canadian State", "Le domain colonial: Class Formation in a Natural Resource Enclave", "What has Work Done to the Working Class?" and most recently, "Canada, the Left and Free Trade" and "Rich but Semiperipheral". At present he has completed work with Professors Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo (York University) on another SSHRC-funded project entitled "Do Unions Make a Difference?". He and Professor Duffy have completed a manuscript published by McClelland and Stewart entitled Canadian Society: Understanding and Surviving the 1990s. He, Professors Duffy and Pupo have completed a second manuscript entitled Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: The Transformation of Work in the 20th Century published by Harcourt, Brace and Company and is completing Plugged in at the Office: The Impact of Gender, Culture and Technological Change in Clerical Workers' Lives to be published by Oxford University Press.

Refereed Articles (Selected)

"Power, Compliance, Resistance and Creativity: Power and the Differential Experience of Loose Time in Large Organizations", New Technology, Work and Employment, Spring, 2011

“Seniors in the Part-Time Labour Force: Issues of Choice and Power”. 1998. with Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo, International Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 18, Fall, pp. 133-152.

"Even a Woman Can Do This Job Now": Reflections on Technological Change and Male Subcultures in the Modern Factory". 1998. Journal of Men's Studies, Volume 6(3), Spring, pp.331-52.

"New Technology and the New Man: A Comparison of Old and New Paper Mills. 1997. New Technology, Work and Employment, Vol. 12 (1), March, pp. 48-60.

"What Has Work Done to the Working Class? A Comparison of Workers and Production Technologies". 1995. British Journal of Sociology   September, 1995:  475-494.

Chapters in Books

“Rich but Losing Ground: How Canada’s Position in the World Economy Impacts Jobs, Social Choices and Life Chances”. 2010 in Norene Pupo, Dan Glenday and Ann Duffy (eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work: Surviving and Prospering in the ‘New’ Economy, Toronto: Nelson, in print.

“Power and Loose Time: Resistance, compliance and the potential for creativity in large organizations”. 2010 in Norene Pupo, Dan Glenday and Ann Duffy (eds.) The Shifting Landscape of Work: Surviving and Prospering in the ‘New’ Economy, Toronto: Nelson, in print.

“Off the Ropes: Trade Unions in the Next Millennium”. 2001 in Dan Glenday and Ann Duffy (eds.) Canadian Society: Meeting the Challenges of the 21^st Century, Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp. 3-37. 

His research interests include the sociology of work, comparative methods in social analysis, and the Canadian political economy in the modern world-system (The Work of Immanuel Wallerstein).

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Kevin Gosine
Associate Professor
Office: AS 302
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4412
E-mail: kgosine@brocku.ca

Education
PhD, York University
MSW, University of Toronto
BA, York University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 2P11: Introduction to Research Methods
SOCI 2P13: Introduction to Social Statistics
SOCI 4P11: Critical Approaches to Applied Social Research Design 

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, University of Toronto

Research Interests:
Racism and antiracism; gender and sexuality; childhood and youth; Border studies; Irish studies, Canadian studies

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 1P80: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
SOCI 3P48: Global Migration
SOCI 4P57: Global Racism/Antiracism

Graduate:
SJES 5P01: Graduate Seminar

Biography 

Jane Helleiner received her BA, MA and Ph.D in Social/Cultural Anthropology from the University of Toronto. She has conducted research in Ireland and Canada. Her book Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture (University of Toronto Press) was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice magazine in 2001. Her most recent work is in the area of critical border studies. 

Selected Publications:

forthcoming Helleiner, Jane Unauthorized Crossings, Danger and Death at the Canada/US Border. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Helleiner, Jane 2012 Whiteness and Narratives of a Racialized Canada/US Border at Niagara. Canadian Journal of Sociology. Vol. 37 No. 2 pp. 109-135

Helleiner, Jane 2010 Canadian Border Resident Experience of the "Smartening" Border at Niagara. Journal of Borderlands Studies. Vol. 25 No. 3&4: 87-103

2009 Young Borderlanders, Tourism Work and Anti-Americanism in Canadian Niagara. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 16 No. 4 pp. 438-62

2009 ‘As Much American as a Canadian Can Be’: Cross-Border Experience and Regional Identity Among Young Borderlanders in Canadian Niagara. Anthropologica. Vol. 51 No.1 pp. 225-238

2007 'Over the River': Border Childhoods and Border Crossings At Niagara. Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research. Vol. 14 No. 4 pp. 431-447

2003 The Politics of Traveller Child Begging and Children's Work in Ireland. Critique of Anthropology Vol. 23 No. 1 pp.17-33

Helleiner, Jane, Pamela Downe, Virginia Caputo 2001 Anthropology, Feminism and Childhood Studies. Anthropologica. Vol. 43. No. 2 pp.135-7

Helleiner, Jane 2001 "The Right Kind of Children": Childhood, Gender and "Race" in Canadian Post-War Political Discourse. Anthropologica . Vol. 43. No. 2. pp. 143-52

2001 Constructing Racialized Childhoods in Canadian Political Discourse. In Helen Schwartzman (ed.), Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century. Westport,CT.: Bergin & Garvey. pp. 187-204

2000 Irish Travellers: Racism and the Politics of Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [ Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title" of 2001]

1999 Toward a Feminist Anthropology of Childhood. Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal. Vol. 24. No. 1 pp. 27-38

1999 Images of Racialized Childhoods in Canadian Interwar Political Discourse. Journal of Social Sciences. Vol 3. No. 1-2 pp. 41-9. [special volume on Public Images of Children]

1998 "Menace to the Social Order": Anti-Traveller Discourse in the Irish Parliamentary Debates 1939-59. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol. 24. No.1. pp. 75-91

1998 Contested Childhood: The Discourse and Politics of Minority Childhood in Ireland. Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research. Vol. 5 No. 3. pp. 303-324

1998 "For the Protection of the Children": The Politics of Minority Childhood in Ireland. Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 71. No 2. pp. 51-62

1997 "Women of the Itinerant Class": Gender and Anti-Traveller Racism in Ireland. Women's Studies International Forum. Vol. 20. No. 2. pp. 275-287

Helleiner, Jane and Bohdan Szuchewycz 1997 Discourses of Exclusion: The Irish Press and the Travelling People. In Stephen Riggins (ed.), The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse. Thousand Oaks: Sage. pp. 109-130

Helleiner, Jane 1995 Inferiorized Difference and the Limits of Pluralism in Ireland: The 1989 Anti-Hatred Act. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol. 21. No. 2. pp. 63-83

1995 Gypsies, Celts and Tinkers: Colonial Antecedents of Anti-Traveller Racism in Ireland. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp. 532-554

1993 Traveller Settlement in Galway City: Politics, Class, and Culture. Chris Curtin, Hastings Donnan and Tom Wilson (eds.), Irish Urban Cultures. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies. pp. 181-201

1991 La Sedentarizzazione dei Travellers Irlandesi: Retorica e Realtà [The Settlement of Irish Travellers: Rhetoric and Reality]. La Ricerca Folklorica. 22. pp. 67-74. (Special Issue on European Gypsies and Travellers).

1990 "The Tinker's Wedding" Revisited: Irish Traveller Marriage. In Matt Salo, (ed.) 100 Years of Gypsy Studies. Publication No. 5. Cheverly, Maryland: The Gypsy Lore Society. pp. 77-85

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Ana Isla
Associate Professor
Office: MCD 331
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3466
Email: aisla@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, OISE-University of Toronto
MA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
BA, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
BA, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
WISE 2P90: Women’s Issues: Sexuality, Class, Ethnicity
WISE 2P96: Women and Development
WISE 3P80: Environmental Justice
WISE 3P90: Contemporary Feminist Thought
SOCI 3P01: Contemporary Social Theory
SOCI 4P51: Gender and Society

Graduate:
SJES 5P30: Social Justice and the Environment

Biography

Ana Isla teaches courses in social and feminist theories. Professor Isla has two BAs, one in Education and the other in Sociology, an MA from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and a PhD from OISE-University of Toronto. Her doctoral dissertation examined the structure and functioning of the complex Canada-Costa Rica debt-for-nature investment relationship and the projects developed by two non-governmental organizations. Her dissertation received an award in an international competition sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation for young scholars. Professor Isla's research within the gift economy and the subsistence economy is highly reputed. Her research on ecofeminism is widely published and has secured financial support. Her scholarly work has been included in journal debates and her readers are in English- and Spanish-speaking communities. Her publications and conference presentations have been picked up by the popular media several times because of their relevance to policy development, as well as to broad social concerns. Professor Isla is currently conducting research in two areas: an exploration of subsistence economies in the Peruvian rainforest, and mining in Latin America. Dr. Isla has a positive international reputation and serves as a Board Member for both the Canadian Woman Studies and Capitalism Nature Socialism journals.

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Tamari Kitossa
Associate Professor
Office: AS 422
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 5672
E-mail: tkitossa@brocku.ca

Education

Ph.D, OISE, University of Toronto (2005)
MA, York University (1998)
BA, York University (1995)

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 4P88: Social Problems
SOCI 2P62: The Criminal Justice System
SOCI 3P33: Law and Social Regulation
SOCI 3P61: Sociology of Punishment
SOCI 4P81: Selected Issues in Criminology

Biography

Associate Professor of Sociology (tkitossa@brocku.ca, Ext. 5672)
Tamari Kitossa’s areas of course instruction inclusive of: critical perspectives on the criminal legal system; sociology of law, punishment, and society; and counter-colonial approach to criminological theory. Research interests include: counter-colonial theorizing of racial profiling; Marxian approaches to police, the state and repression; the environment; and sexual racism and hypersexualism of African males. Immediate research projects include: a qualitative and quantitative examination of race and representation in Canadian criminology; mainstream criminological discourse as ‘bad faith’ toward blackness and epistemic violence; and, with Dr. Katerina Deliovsky is developing the theory of ‘repressive tolerance’ toward interracial couples. Dr. Kitossa is working on an edited collection entitled: Protest, Repression and the Police State: Critical Studies of Policing, the State and Society, 1960 –1990. He is Co-Chair of the Brock/Niagara African Canadian Renaissance Group (http://brockniagaraafricangroup.weebly.com/). Through the Brock/Niagara African Renaissance Group he is co-developer of the Dr. Wilma Morrison Annual African Heritage Lecture (https://www.brocktv.ca/watch/1100). He is Secretary to the Black Canadian Studies Association (http://bcsa.wordpress.com/the-bcsa/); and, with Richard Ndayizigamiye, is drafting a proposal for an Africana Chair in Borders, Migration and Settlement Studies at Brock University.
 
PUBLICATIONS:
Kitossa, T. 2012 (“in-press”). Black Canadian Studies and the resurgence of the insurgent
African Canadian Intelligentsia. Southern Journal of Canadian Studies.

Kitossa, T. 2012. Odyssey Home to a Place Within: An autobiography and note on Jamaica’s ‘lost children’. In C. James and A. Davis (eds.), Jamaica in Canada: A Multiculturalizing Presence. Black Point, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/Jamaica-in-the-Canadian-Experience/

Kitossa, T. 2012. Criminology and Colonialism: The Canadian context. The Journal of Pan
African Studies 4(10): 204-226.
http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol4no10/4.10Criminology.pdf

Kitossa, Tamari. 2012. Habitus and rethinking the discourse of ghetto youth, gangs and
violence. In Chris Richardson and Hans Skott-Myhre (eds.), Habitus of the Hood.
Bristol: Intellect Press.
http://www.amazon.ca/Habitus-Hood-Chris-Richardson/dp/1841504793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343679103&sr=8-1

Kitossa, Tamari. 2011, November. Year of the African: Beyond law. Heritage Matters
Magazine.
http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/getattachment/Resources---Learning/Free-publications/Heritage-Matters-magazine/Issues-at-a-glance/HM-SE-Nov-2011-ENG.pdf.aspx

Kitossa, Tamari. 2011. “Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘postracism’ and white supremacy in the
campaign and election of Barack Obama.” Critical Race Inquiry 1(2): 1-51.
http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/CRI/article/view/3553/3563

Kitossa, Tamari and Katerina Deliovsky. 2010. “Interracial Unions with White Partners and
Racial Profiling: Experiences and perspectives.” International Journal of Criminology and
Sociological Theory 3(2): 512-530.
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/ijcst/article/viewFile/31101/28537

Kitossa, Tamari. 2009. “Malleus Maleficarum Africanus: The Criminalization of African Canadians and "Due Process’ as a Property of Whiteness". Reprinted in Racism, Culture, and Law: Critical Readings, edited by Reza Barmaki. Toronto: APF Press, Reprint. Livy Visano (Ed.), Law and Criminal Justice: A Critical Inquiry, Toronto: APF Press, 2005.

Kitossa, Tamari. 2008. Foreword in to Charles Simon-Aaron, The Atlantic Slave Trade
Empire,Enlightenment, and the Cult of the Unthinking Negro. USA: Mellen Press.
http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7325&pc=9

Kitossa, Tamari. 2007. Unfinished Business: Racial profiling as a normative consequence of
Eurocentric law and chattel slavery. Directions: Research and Policy on Eliminating Racism
4(1): 19-22. http://www.crr.ca/content/view/332/378/lang,english/

Kitossa, Tamari. 2000. Same Difference: Race, Biocentric Imperialism and the Assault on
Indigenous Culture and Hunting. Environments: A journal of interdisciplinary studies, 28(2):
23-36. http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/research/environments/

Forthcoming Contributions:
Kitossa, Tamari. “Racial Profiling, Epistemic Violence and Deconstructionism as Discursive Formation: A counter-colonial critique of the ‘criminology industrial complex’. African Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Public lectures:
Kitossa, Tamari. 2011. “The Black Phallic Fantastic in Eurocentric History and Contemporary
Culture: Material reading cultural a psychosis.” Guest lecturer for Dr. Margot Francis
(SOCI 3P51 Gender and Society) and contribution to African Heritage Month, February.
http://www.brocktv.ca/v=653

Kitossa, Tamari. 2010. “Bringing Race Back into Racism”. Keynote Address for the launch of
Critical Race Inquiry. Queen’s University, September.
http://library.queensu.ca/files/CRI-Keynote.html

Kitossa, Tamari. 2010. Convocation Address for Honorary Doctor of Letters, Ms. Wilma
Morrison. Brock University Spring Convocation.

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 Murray Knuttila
Provost and Vice-President, Academic
Professor of Sociology
ST 13th Floor
(905) 688-5550 ext. 4121
mknuttila@brocku.ca

Education

Phd, University of Toronto
MA, University of Regina
BA (Honours), University of Regina 

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 4P89: Controversies in Sociology 

Biography

Murray Knuttila is Provost and Vice-President Academic at Brock University where he also holds an appointment as Professor of Sociology. Prior to joining Brock in 2009 he taught in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina for several decades where he was also a Research Faculty at the Saskatchewan Population Health Evaluation Research Unit. He was Associate Vice-President (Academic) for two years, Dean of Arts from 1995 to 2002 and Assistant Dean and Department Head prior to that. He was the inaugural Chairperson of the Regina-Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority and Vice-Chair of the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Board. He has been on numerous graduate committees and supervised numerous M.A. and PhDs students as well as being the recipient of numerous research grants.

Assistant Professor
Office: AS 403
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3540
E-mail: hijinpark@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, OISE, University of Toronto
MEd, University of Alberta
BA (Hons), University of Alberta

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 3P82: Women and Crime
SOCI 2P61: Introduction to Criminology
SOCI 3P63: Crime, Surveillance, and Security
SOCI 4P62: Advanced Seminar in Social and Moral Regulation

Graduate:
SOCI 5P60: Critical Perspectives on Race and Racism

Biography

Hijin Park works in the area of anti-racist feminism. Her research and teaching interests include feminist criminology, refugee and migration studies, and securitization studies. She has published articles and book chapters on violence against racialized women, the criminalization of migration, and Canadian white settler nationalism. Her current research examines the violence of racialized female murderers in the context of Canadian white settler colonialism and neoliberalism.

Recent Publications
2012, forthcoming. "Interracial violence, western racialized masculinities and the geopolitics of violence against women," Social & Legal Studies, 21(4).

2012, forthcoming, "Producing refugees and trafficked persons: Women and unaccompanied minors and discourses of criminalized victimhood," Transnational Voices: Global migration and the experiences of women, youth and children, ed. Guida C. Man and Rina Cohen, Whitby: Desitter Press.

2011, "Being Canada's national citizen: Difference and the ecconomics of multicultural nationalism," Social Identities, 17(5): 643-663.

2011, "Migrants, minorities, and economies: Transnational feminism and the Asian/Canadian woman subject," Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 17(4): 7-38.

2011, "The stranger that is welcomed: Female foreign students from Asia, the English language industry, and the ambivalence of "Asia rising" in British Columbia, Canada," Gender, Place and Culture, 17(3): 337-355.

2010, "A nation through home invasion: White settler nationalism, Chinese criminality and 1999 "summer of the boats," Asian Journal of Canadian Studies, 16(2): 89-113.

2010, Review of Yasmin Jiwani, Discourses of denial: Mediations of race gender and violence, 2006, Resources for Feminist Reseaarch. 33(3/4): 187-189.

2007, "Incorporating Ji-Won Park into the Canadian nation: The "good girl" the monster and the noble savage," Han Kut: Critical art and writing by Korean Canadian women, Korean Canadian Women's Anthology Collective, Toronto: Inanna Publications: 76-92.

2004, "Race and space in the Los Angeles riots: Permissible dissent and the bourgeois subject," Trans/forms, 7: 90-112.

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Mary-Beth Raddon
Associate Professor
Office: AS 401A
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3460
E-mail: mraddon@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, McMaster University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 2F60: Foundation for Community Engagement
SOCI 2P12: Qualitative Research Methods
SOCI 4P70: Social Issues in the Community

Graduate:
SOCI 5P02:Critical Social Research Design and Methods

Biography

In 2012/13, Mary-Beth Raddon is serving in the role of Faculty Associate for Service-Learning with the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and holds a Chancellor’s Chair for Teaching Excellence. She is instructor of SOCI 2F60 Foundations for Community Engagement, which combines classroom instruction and experiential learning to examine local activism, community service and civic participation. She also teaches courses in critical research design, qualitative methods, and community-based responses to poverty. Professor Raddon has research interests in service-learning as a critical pedagogy. Her service-learning research ties into her interests in gift-relations more generally, including philanthropy, charitable giving, formal volunteering, inheritance, and unpaid work within and between households. She has a longstanding interest in community currencies: initiatives to create parallel local money systems that seek to generate meaningful work and convivial, sustainable, democratic and sovereign local economies. Her book, Community and Money: Men and Women Making Change (Black Rose, 2003), shows how experimentation with new exchange networks exposes gendered patterns of reciprocity, work and shopping. Subsequent studies continue to examine monetary politics and the sociology of financialization.

Selected Publications

Raddon, Mary-Beth. 2011. “Financial Fitness: Political and Cultural Economies of Financialization,” in Power and Everyday Practice, edited by Deborah Brock, Rebecca Raby, and Mark Thomas. Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.

Raddon, Mary-Beth, Kristin Ciupa. 2011. “How to Write Your Will in an Age of Risk: The Institutionalization of Individualism in Estate Planning in English Canada.” Current Sociology. 59, 6: 771-786.

Raddon, Mary-Beth, Rebecca Raby, Erin Sharpe. 2009. “The Challenges of Teaching Qualitative Coding: Can a Learning Object Help?” International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 21, 3: 336-350.

Raddon, Mary-Beth. 2008. “Neoliberal Legacies: Planned Giving and the New Philanthropy.” Studies in Political Economy. 81 (Spring): 27-48.

Raddon, Mary-Beth, Caleb Nault, and Alexis Scott. 2008. “Integrating a Complete Research Project into a Large Qualitative Methods Course.” Teaching Sociology. 36:2: 141-9.

Raddon, Mary-Beth. 2003. Community and Money: Men and Women Making Change. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

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Murray E.G. Smith
Professor of Sociology
Office: AS 408
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4370
E-mail: msmith@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, University of British Columbia
MA, University of Manitoba
BA, University of Manitoba

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 2P10: Critical and Expression
SOCI 3P00: Introduction to Early Modern Social Theory
SOCI 4P87: Social Inequality
SOCI 2P32: In and Out of Work in the Global Economy
SOCI 3P36: Critical Issues in Contemporary Society
SOCI 3P66: Social Movements
SOCI 4P02: Selected Topics in Social Theory

Graduate:
SOCI 5P01: Critical Social Theories
SOCI 5P95: Directed Studies
SOCI 5P80: Problems and Possibilities in Economic Life

Biography

Murray E.G. Smith's principal research and teaching interests are in the areas of theoretical and international political economy, classical sociological theory, Marxist theory, social movements, and the sociology of health and illness. He has published articles in the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Studies in Political Economy, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Science & Society, the Review of Radical Political Economics, the Brock Review, Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism and Labour/Le Travail; and contributed entries to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, the Encyclopedia of International Political Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. He is the author of Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism beyond Postmodernism (University of Toronto Press, 1994), the editor of Early Modern Social Theory: Selected Interpretive Readings (Canadian Scholars Press, 1998), and the co-author (with Judith Blackwell and John Sorenson) of The Culture of Prejudice (Broadview Press, 2003). His most recent book is Global Capitalism in  Crisis: Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System (Fernwood Publishing, 2010).

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John Sorenson
Professor of Sociology
Office: AS 414
Phone: (905) 688-5550 ext. 4369
E-mail: jsorenson@brocku.ca

On-Line forum

Education

PhD, York University
MA, University of Alberta
BA, University of Alberta

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 4F80: Critical Animal Studies
SOCI 2P73: Globalization
SOCI 2P85: Animals in Human Societies
SOCI 3P47: Racism and Anti-racism
SOCI 4P55: Animals and Human Societies

Graduate:
SOCI 5P95: Directed Studies
SJES 5P35: Animal Liberation and Social Justice

Biography

Education

PhD, York University
MA, York University
BA, Carleton University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 3P01: Contemporary Social Theory
SOCI 2P80: Labour, Environment and Consumption
SOCI 3P00: Early Social Theory
SOCI 3P66: Social Movements
SOCI 4P88: Social Problems

Graduate:
SOCI 5P01: Critical Social Theories

Biography

Dennis Soron is affiliated with the Labour Studies Program and the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies. He has a PhD from York University’s interdisciplinary program in Social and Political Thought, and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Neoliberal Globalism and its Challengers project, a SSHRC-funded Major Collaborative Research Initiative based at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, which involved scholars and activists from across Canada and several other countries. Professor Soron’s current teaching and research interests include contemporary social theory, cultural studies, the political economy of consumption, environmental sociology, radical ecology, automobility, critical animal studies, and the intersection of labour and environmental politics. He has published various book chapters, articles, and interviews on consumerism, globalization, work, the environment, automobile dependency, human – nonhuman relations, and the issue of depoliticization in advanced capitalist societies. He (with Gordon Laxer) is the co-editor of Not For Sale: Decommodifying Public Life (Broadview/Garamond, 2006).

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Michelle Webber
Associate Professor 
Office: AS 420
Telephone: 688-5550 ext. 4411
Email: mwebber@brocku.ca

Education

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Brock University

Courses Recently Taught

Undergraduate:
SOCI 1F90: Introduction to Sociology
SOCI 4P22: Education and Society
SOCI 4P51: Gender and Society

Graduate:
SOCI 5N00: Graduate Seminar

Biography

Michelle Webber teaches in the area of sociology of education. She also regularly teaches introductory sociology. She is affiliated with the Centre for Labour Studies and is a member of the Jobs and Justice Research Unit. Professor Webber has a BA from Brock and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. She publishes on various aspects of higher education including contingent faculty, tenure and promotion, and academic identities. She is currently the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded research project entitled "The New Scholarly Subject: Academic Work, Subjectivities, and Accountability Governance" (Sandra Acker, Co Investigator, University of Toronto). She is also a co investigator on a SSHRC-funded project entitled "Faculty Associations and the Politics of Accountability Governance in Ontario Universities" (Larry Savage, Principal Investigator, Jonah Butovsky, Co-investigator).