Michael Adorjan

Dr. Michael Adorjan

PhD
Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology

Contact information

Email

madorjan@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Twitter

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-5982

For media enquiries, contact

mediarequests@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Sociology, McMaster University, 2009

Hon. B.A. Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2000

M.A. Criminology, University of Toronto, 2001

CV - Michael Adorjan (May 2022)

Research

Areas of Research

Youth and Cyber-Risk, Youth crime discourse and policy, Fear of Crime, Police and Society, Desistance from Crime, Criminological Theory, Interpretive and Comparative Criminology

Participation in university strategic initiatives

Child health and wellness

Human dynamics in a changing world

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
SOCI 333 Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOCI 327 Introduction to Criminal Justice
SOCI 301 Special Topics: Cyber Devitions
SOCI 423 Sociology of Youth Crime
SOCI 421 Special Topics: Youth, Cyber-Risk, and Governmentality

Awards

  • Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 Award, for article A New Privacy Paradox? Youth agentic practices of privacy management despite ‘nothing to hide’ online, Canadian Review of Sociology.
  • Outstanding Researcher Award (Established Scholar), Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2019
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2016
  • Outstanding Article Award, SSSP Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2015
  • Outstanding Teaching Award (Early Career), Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2015
  • Fellow, University of Hong Kong Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong. 2014
  • Faculty of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award , Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. 2012

Publications

  • Through the Social Problems Looking Glass: A festschrift in honor of Dorothy Pawluch. Michael Adorjan and Malcolm Spector. The American Sociologist. (2022)
  • The Gendered Dynamics of Sexting as Boundary Work. Kelsea Perry, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Michael Adorjan. YOUNG. (2022)
  • Parental Technology Governance: Teenagers’ understandings and responses to parental digital mediation. Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Tina Saleh. Qualitative Sociology Review. (2022)
  • Researching Online Activism using a Mixed Methods Approach: Youth Activists on Twitter. Monica Pauls, Benjamin Kelly and Michael Adorjan. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. (2022)
  • Time as Vernacular Resource: Temporality and credibility in social problems claims making. Michael Adorjan and Benjamin Kelly. The American Sociologist. (2021)
  • AMStrength program in Canadian federal correctional services: Correctional officers’ views and interpretations. Criminal Justice Studies. 2021 Rosemary Ricciardelli, Marcella Siqueira Cassiano, Michael Adorjan, and Meghan Mitchell. Criminal Justice Studies. (2021)
  • CCWORK Protocol: The longitudinal study of Canadian Correctional Workers’ Wellbeing, Organizations, Roles and Knowledge. Ricciardelli, R., Andres, E., Mitchell, M.M., Quirion, B., Groll, D., Adorjan, M., Siqueira Cassiano, M., Shewmake, J., McKinnon, M., Herzog-Evans, M., Czarnuch, S., Genest, C., Gacek, J., Cramm, H., Moran, D., Spencer, D., Maier, K., Phoenix, J., MacDermid, J., Weinrath, M., Haynes, S., Arnold, H., Turner, J., Eriksson, A., Heber, A., Anderson, G., MacPhee, R., & Carleton, R.N. British Medical Journal Open. (2021)
  • The Rise and Ongoing Legacy of Localism as Collective Identity in Hong Kong: Resinicisation Anxieties and Punishment of Political Dissent in the Post-colonial Era. Michael Adorjan, Paul Vinod Khiatani and Wing Hong (Eric) Chui. Punishment & Society. (2021)
  • “We’re both here to do a job and that’s all that matters”: Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture. Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli and James Gacek. British Journal of Criminology. (2021)
  • Synoptic Prudentialism: The police, social media, and bureaucratic resistance. Michael Adorjan and Rosemary Ricciardelli. Canadian Journal of Sociology . (2021)
  • Smartphone and Social Media Addiction: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of Canadian teenagers. Michael Adorjan and Rosemary Ricciardelli. Canadian Review of Sociology. (2021)
  • Correctional officer training: Opportunities and challenges of the AMStrength program in Canada. Rosemary Ricciardelli and Michael Adorjan. Journal of Forensic Psychology and Research Practice. (2020)
  • Agnostic Interactionism in the 21st Century: Developing Shaffirian Theory- Work in Ethnographic Research. Benjamin Kelly and Michael Adorjan. Qualitative Sociological Review. (2020)
  • The Appropriation of Rehabilitation through the Logic of Risk. Kimberley Clow, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Michael Adorjan. Journal of Community Corrections. (2019)
  • Canadian rural youth and role tension of the police: “It’s hard in a small town.”. Rosemary Ricciardelli, Michael Adorjan and Dale Spencer. Youth Justice. (2019)
  • Cyber-risk and Youth: Digital Citizenship, Privacy and Surveillance. Michael Adorjan and Rose Ricciardelli. Routledge. (2019)
  • Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship [Chinese Translation]. Michael ADorjan and Wing Hong (Eric) Chui. University of Hong Kong Press/Routledge. (2018)
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