Department of Sociology News

Dr. Veda Kim receives Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Dr. Kim’s dissertation awarded by the Korean Social History Association for his dissertation Life/Death: The Jeju Genocide, Necropower, and South Korean Subimperialism (University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023)

PhD candidate Jay Cavanagh offered Centre for Medical Humanities funded visiting position

Department of Sociology PhD candidate Jay Cavanagh has been offered a funded Visiting PhD Student position at the Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) at Uppsala University, Sweden, which he will take up during the Winter and Spring terms of 2027.

Dr. Qian Liu receives recognition for the ALSA Distinguished Book Award

Dr. Liu’s book Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships, has received an Honorable Mention for the Asian Law and Society Association Distinguished Book Award for 2026.

New faculty for fall 2026

The Faculty of Arts welcomes 12 new members this semester

2026 Faculty of Arts rank professor promotions

Congratulations to the faculty members who have achieved this next step in their career

Who gets to build non-market housing? A UCalgary sociologist looks for answers in four historic Chinatowns

SSHRC-funded project asks why some communities can build affordable housing and others cannot

Department of Sociology in the Media

In the News Qian Liu, Sociology, The Conversation

Department of Sociology News