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)
Department of Sociology in the Media
In the News Alex Bierman, Sociology, in Global News
Survey shows Albertans are least satisfied with quality of life in Canada
In the News Alex Bierman in Global News
Albertans are the least satisfied with quality of life across Canada: StatCan
In the News Global News
Alex Bierman interviewed by Global News Explaining Why Albertans Less Satisfied with their Lives
In the News Janna Klostermann, Sociology, in Alberta Views
At the Limits of Care, Gendered Work and Stories That Matter
In the News The Conversation