Department News

Congratulations to Dr. Ed Hedican, whose most recent book titled "Ipperwash: The Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal Policy" (University of Toronto Press) was nominated for the Hilary Weston Writer's Prize for Canadian Non-Fiction. 

 Next week Dr. Tad Mcilwraith will be on the plenary panel of the BC Studies Conference (held at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC).  The panel will be discussing the rewards and challenges of regional studies along with the interconnections between the global and the local in British Columbia scholarship.  At the CASCA Dr. Mcilwraith will be part of a roundtable titled: "Unsettling the record beyond the university: A roundtable on anthropological methods, tools, and technologies for informing and challenging environmental assessment and regulatory process."

More Information about the conference can be found here

March 19, 2013
Fairbairn and Dawson publish research in Feminist Criminology

 

Theoretical Learning Outcomes
Analyze, evaluate and apply sociological and anthropological theories to address contemporary, historical, social and global issues.

Research and Methodological Learning Outcomes
Analyze and evaluate research in sociology and anthropology, and the social sciences generally.  

Apply appropriate research methodologies to address contemporary, historical, social and global issues.

Critical Thinking and Understanding Learning Outcomes
Critically reflect on culture, social relations and social structures in order to develop a broader and deeper understanding of social problems.

Sociologist Dr. Myrna Dawson and Western University colleagues, Dr. Peter Jaffe and Marcie Campbell published findings this month in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice from a national knowledge exchange on domestic homicide review initiatives. The knowledge exchange brought together practitioners, researchers, and government officials from ten provinces and two territories to share regional experiences with domestic homicide reviews, to identify benefits and challenges of conducting reviews for domestic homicide prevention, and to outline promising practices that have been or may be implemented to address challenges.

Tina Hotton, a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, and Centre director and sociologist Myrna Dawson have been selected to participate in a pilot project using the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey. The pilot is being conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics in conjunction with Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres. One of only seven pilots to be conducted across the country, Hotton and Dawson will examine the criminal justice response to intimate partner violence in Canada, building on their current research that explores provincial differences in police charging practices in these types of cases.

Sociologist Myrna Dawson’s ongoing research on intimacy, homicide and punishment was published this month in the Australia & New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Dawson’s research which focuses on the Canadian context was one of eight articles highlighted in a special issue that examines legal responses to lethal violence. Other contributions focused on Australia, England and Wales, and New Zealand. Special issue editors stated “there is much ongoing debate about the boundaries of homicide, relevant laws, and their effects, and the divergent directions of law reform.” Contributions underpin key recent debates and developments in homicide law reform internationally, including gendered violence.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph invites applications for a tenure‐track position in Sociology at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Sociology or be at the stage of “All But Dissertation” (ABD) in their doctoral program in Sociology, with a dissertation defence scheduled.  

 (2013) is an edited collection of peer-reviewed articles originally published in the journal New Proposals. According to the editors, “Each essay was selected for its relevance for learning about how to do anthropology that makes a difference in our world.” Deidre Rose’s “AIDS Rumours, Vulnerability, and the Banana Wars: A View from Dominica” will appear in the section on Identity and Inequality. Her article provides a close reading of AIDS rumours to highlight connections between experiences of colonial exploitation, slavery, racism, neoliberal economic policies and local reactions to HIV/AIDS intervention strategies.

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