Research Areas
The Department of Sociology uncovers the dynamics of inequity and injustice across multiple areas of systemic injustice and structural harm.
UCalgary Sociology: A Strategic Focus on Systematic Injustice and Structural Harm
We embrace research and teaching that recognizes, explains, and resists systemic injustice and structural harm.
Gbenga Adejare
Area of Research: Development contexts, Critical analysis of marginalization experiences in postcolonial settings, Intersectionality among minoritized group
Michael Adorjan
Area 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
Pallavi Banerjee
Area of Research: Intersectionality, Sociology of immigration and refugee studies, Global south and transnationalism, Families, Gender and feminism, Qualitative methods, Community-engaged research
Alex Bierman
Area of Research: Aging and health, Social psychology, Religion, Military sociology, and Family
Dean Curran
Area of Research: Risk, Social theory, Inequalities, Environmental sociology, Finance, Digital economy
Joshua Curtis
Ariel Ducey
Area of Research: Data, touch, technology and medical care, Moral economies of knowledge, Frontline care work, Affect, embodiment and sensory politics
Stephen Fred Dumas (Teaching)
Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot
Abdie Kazemipur
Area of Research: Ethnic studies, The socio-economic experiences of immigrants in Canada, The socio-cultural developments in the Middle East
Janna Klostermann
Areas of Research: Sociology of health and illness, Care work, care theory, Work and organizational relations, Nursing homes (long-term residential care), Qualitative research methods, Storytelling and the arts
Qian Liu
Area of Research: Law and society, legal consciousness, legal profession, sexual orientation and the law, gender and China, Chinese law, feminist legal theory, relational theory, reproductive rights, intergenerational relationships
Scott McLean
Area of Research: Historical sociology of education, Postcolonial studies and globalization, Public pedagogies and popular culture
Ayesha Mian Akram
Area of Research: Social Inequality & Social Justice, Qualitative Methodologies & Research, Critical Muslim Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Laura Montes de Oca Barrera
Area of Research: non-profit organizations and participatory governance in Mexico, collective action and social change in contemporary societies, and Latin American women in Canada
Matt Patterson
Area of Research: Urban sociology, Cities and culture, Role of cultural planning and placemaking projects within North American Chinatowns
Nestar Russell
Areas of Research: Stanley Milgram's Obedience Studies, Perpetrator behaviour during the Holocaust, State crime, Organizational malevolence, Responsibility avoidance and climate change, Business graffiti, The social construction of crime
Annette Tezli (Teaching)
Area of Research: poverty and homelessness and their intersection with other dimensions of inequality.
Yvonne Zylan
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