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Patrick Parnaby

Dr. Parnaby completed his PhD in sociology at McMaster University in 2004 before joining the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. Dr. Parnaby’s primary interest is in the sociology of risk and risk discourse as they relate to issues of expertise, social...

Vivian Shalla

I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in 2001. I earned my M.Sc. from the University of Montréal and my Ph.D. from Carleton University, both in Sociology. Prior to joining the University of Guelph, I taught at the University of Ottawa and at...

Sally Humphries

I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in 1994. I have an undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology/Latin American Studies, a Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies and a PhD in Sociology. The interdisciplinary nature of my studies, which...

Ed Hedican

I am a social anthropologist with graduate degrees from McMaster Univerity (M.A.) and McGill University (PhD.). My long term ethnographic interests have been with Canadian Aboriginal peoples, especially concerning the Ojibwa or Anishenabe peoples living north of Lake Superior. Research in this...

Terisa Turner

Terisa Turner studied at the University of York (U.K.), Oberlin College (U.S.A.), and received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. As a United Nations energy specialist she has worked in Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. She has edited Oil and Class Struggle...

Andrew Hathaway

Andy Hathaway does research in the areas of illicit drug use, harm reduction, human rights, and Canadian drug policy. His research on cannabis, spanning over a decade, examines use in marginalized and mainstream populations, and draws out implications for social...

Linda Hunter

Dr. Linda Hunter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology as well as the Department's Undergraduate Coordinator.

Dr. Hunter teaches sociological theory, and has also taught courses in gender relations, social deviance, introductory sociology and Canadian...

Marta Rohatynskyj

I received both of my graduate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Toronto, after having completed a first degree in English Languages and Literature in the United States Since my initial work with the Őmie of Papua New Guinea, focused on the rare form of gender specific group...

David Walters

I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2005. I received my BA and MA from the University of Western Ontario, and my PhD from McMaster University. My substantive areas of research include the sociology of education, immigration, and mental health; however, my primary area of...

Lisa Kowalchuk

Lisa Kowalchuk received her B.A. in Sociology at McMaster University, her M.A. in Sociology from McGill University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from York University. She taught for four years at St. Mary’s University in Halifax before joining U of Guelph in July 2004.

Hans Bakker

Dr. J.I. (Hans) Bakker is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Toward A Just Civilization (1993) and has edited The World Food Crisis (1990), Gandhi and the Gita (1993) and Sustainability and International Rural Development (1995), as...

Cecil Foster

Mavis Morton

Professor Morton specializes in violence against women, women and the law, feminist criminology, justice and social policy, feminist participatory action research (FPAR), public sociology, community-engaged scholarship (research, learning and service). Professor Morton's previous work includes...

Bill O'Grady

Jeji Varghese

I completed my PhD (2005, Rural Sociology) in the Department of Rural Economy at the University of Alberta. My dissertation research focused on the social consequences of local ownership in six forest-dependent communities in Canada. Prior to joining the department in 2007, I conducted research...

Satsuki Kawano

Dr. Satsuki Kawano is a Japan anthropologist. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (U.S.), she held positions at Harvard University (Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions) and the University of Notre Dame (Assistant Professor) before joining the University...

MaDonna Maidment

MaDonna Maidment completed her doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. A native of St. John's, she completed her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology at Memorial University. Professor Maidment has worked as a researcher and policy analyst on...

Kerry Preibisch

Kerry Preibisch is a sociologist specializing in the area of international migration and development. Her research interests are in the areas of gender and migration, international labour migration and global agro-food systems, im/migration issues in rural Canada, and rural development. Since...

Renee Sylvain

I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in 2002. I received my undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Wilfrid Laurier University and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Toronto. I spent two years at Dalhousie University as a...

Tony Winson

Tony Winson (M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto) taught at Saint Mary's University and the University of Western Ontario before joining the University of Guelph. He has been writing on agriculture, food and rural development issues related to Canada and the Third World for more than twenty years...

Joseph Tindale

Dr. Joseph Tindale is a social gerontologist and professor in the Family Relations and Applied Nutrition (FRAN) department at the University of Guelph and Interim Chair in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology (2010-2012) while retaining his research and graduate student advising...

Carolyn Yule

Broadly speaking, I am interested in the sociology of crime. Much ofmy work revolves around understanding the correspondence between crime and dynamic social contexts and life circumstances. I examine how life course events and processes shape stability and change in criminal and...

Elizabeth Finnis

I completed my PhD in Anthropology at McMaster University in 2006, and then undertook a SSHRC-funded post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Society, Technology, and Development at McGill University.

My research addresses issues of political...

Ron Stansfield

Ron Stansfield received his B.Sc. in Psychology from McMaster University, his M.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Sociology from York University. Prior to becoming an academic he worked as a police officer, probation and parole officer, and human rights officer....

Myrna Dawson

A Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, I joined the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Guelph in 2003. My undergraduate degree is in Sociology and Law & Society from York University and my M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology are from the University...

Linda Gerber

Linda received her first degree in nursing, before turning her attention to graduate studies in sociology. While still a graduate student, she became involved as a consultant in highway planning doing socio-economic impact assessment. After completing her master's and doctoral degrees at the...

Belinda Leach

I studied social anthropology at Carleton University (BA 1984) and the University of Toronto (MA 1985, Ph.D. 1992) and came to the University of Guelph in 1993. I am interested in how forms of inequality are produced and reproduced socially and culturally through historical practices and changes...

Bill O'Grady

Bill O’Grady received his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Carleton University, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Professor O’Grady has just completed a research project in Toronto that examined the enforcement activities of the Ontario Safe Streets Act in relation to homeless youth. He is a member of the Canadian Homeless Research Network and an advisory member of Raising the Roof’s Advisory Board of Youth Works.

Research Area(s):

Marginal youth, the informal economy, homelessness, crime, and social exclusion.

Selected Publications:

2011 O'Grady, Bill, Stephen Gaetz & Kristy Buccieri. Can I See Your ID? The Policing of Youth Homelessness in Toronto. (Toronto: JFCY & The Homeless Hub). 93 pages.

2011 O’Grady, William. Crime in Canadian Context: debates and controversies.Toronto: Oxford University Press (2nd Edition).

2010 Stephen Gaetz and Bill O’Grady “Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in Toronto,” Justice for Children and Youth (90 pages).

2010 William O’Grady, Patrick F. Parnaby and Justin Schikschneit “Guns, Gangs, and the Underclass: A Constructionist Analysis of Gun Violence in a Toronto High School,” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Vol. 55 (1) pp. 55-77.

2009 Bill O’Grady and Stephen Gaetz. “Street Survival: A Gendered Analysis of Youth Homelessness in Toronto.” In:Hulchanski, J. David; Campsie, Philippa; Chau, Shirley; Hwang, Stephen; Paradis, Emily (eds.) Finding Home: Policy Options forAddressing Homelessness in Canada(e-book), Chapter 3.4. Toronto: Cities Centre, University of Toronto. www.homelesshub.ca/FindingHome

2009 Stephen Gaetz and Bill O’Grady. “Homelessness, Incarceration, and the Challenge of Effective Discharge Planning: A Canadian Case.” In: Hulchanski, J. David; Campsie, Philippa; Chau, Shirley; Hwang, Stephen; Paradis, Emily (eds.) Finding Home: Policy Options for Addressing Homelessness in Canada(e-book), Chapter 7.3. Toronto: Cities Centre, University of Toronto. www.homelesshub.ca/FindingHome .

2007 O’Grady, William. Crime in Canadian Context: Debates and Controversies. Toronto: Oxford University Press (221 pages).

2006 Keenan, Caroline, Vicky Maldonado and Bill O’Grady “Working the Streets: an International Comparative Analysis of Income Generation among Street Youth,” Canadian Review of Social Policy. # 58 pp 25-42.

2006 Stephen Gaetz and Bill O’Grady The Missing Link: Discharge Planning, Incarceration and Homelessness. Toronto: John Howard Society of Ontario (116 pages)

2004 Lisa J. Byers, Ken S. Menzies, and William L. O’Grady "The Impact of Computer Variables on the Viewing and Sending of Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet: Testing Cooper’s “Triple-A Engine.”The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (13) 157-169.

2004 O’Grady, Bill and Stephen Gaetz “Homelessness, Gender and Subsistence: the case of Toronto Street Youth” Journal of Youth Studies 7. (4) pp 397-416.

2004 Stephen Gaetz and Bill O’Grady “Work on the Streets,” in David Levinson (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

2003 O’Grady, Bill and Carolyn Greene “A Social and Economic Impact Study of the Ontario Safe Streets Act on Toronto Squeegee Cleaners” Online Journal of Justice Studies 1 (1).

2002 O’Grady, Bill and Robert Bright “Squeezed to the Point of Exclusion: a case study of Toronto Squeegee cleaners,” in Joe Hermer (ed.) Disorderly People, law & the politics of exclusion in Ontario. Halifax: Fernwood Press.

2002 Steve Gaetz and Bill O’Grady “Making Money: Exploring the Economy of Young Homeless Workers: Work, Employment and Society (A Journal of the British Sociological Association) Vol. 16. (3) pp. 433-456.

Email:

wogrady@uoguelph.ca

Phone:

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Office Number:

639

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