Department of Sociology News


Department of Sociology News

Co-authored Paper named as one of the top-ranked Kanter Award articles for 2026

Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta Thomas’s 2025 paper published in Gender Work and Organizations was selected as a nominee for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. This selection recognizes the paper as one of the top-ranked Kanter Award articles for 2026.

Faculty of Arts Awards and Celebration of Excellence 2026

Recognizing outstanding research, teaching, and community achievements

Fahimeh Mehrabi Receives Committing Sociology Certificate

PhD candidate recognized for editorial service to The Canadian Review of Sociology

Very first newsletter, Decolonial Dispatches published by Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) features writing by our faculty members and graduate student

Decolonial Dispatches, the first issue of the S4P newsletter features essay by doctoral student, Rineem Saleh and The Conversation piece authored by Pallavi Banerjee, Pratim Sengupta and Yahya El Sahib

Bierman and Mehrabi’s research on housing insecurity receives broad media attention

Television, radio, and print media interview Alex Bierman about study’s findings

Paper on youth and care wins two prestigious paper awards

Anuneeta Chatterjee’s paper was awarded the Visionary Care Studies Paper Award by the Carework Network and the Honorable Mention of the Family, Aging, and Youth Division’s Student Paper Competition at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)