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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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...

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.