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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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Tony Winson

Anthony 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. For much of his career he has been writing on agriculture, food and rural development issues related to Canada and the Third...

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...

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...

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...

Myrna Dawson

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cecil Foster

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...

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