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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...

Cecil Foster

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sally Humphries

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 generally focused on rural and agricultural development in Latin America, led to my receiving a Rockefeller Social Science Fellowship in Agriculture. I elected to undertake this at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. During my fellowship at CIAT, I lived in Honduras where I initiated a pilot project in farmer participatory research with hillside farmers. Today in Honduras there are more than 80 farmer research teams, involving around 800 farmers, which have developed from this pilot project. Since 2000, USC-Canada, one of the country’s oldest international NGOs, has supported the majority of these farmer research teams with the backing of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Current Project(s):

My research, which is part and parcel of my applied development work, continues to be associated with Honduran farmer researchers and their supporting NGOs, in particular La Fundación para la Investigación Participativa con Agricultores de Honduras (FIPAH). Honduran farmer researchers have been engaged in generating new technologies, including new plant varieties produced through participatory plant breeding. By improving local landraces and better adapting them to the uncertainties of climate change, farmers have effectively increased local agro-biodiversity. At the same time, they have also acquired a strong sense of the value of biological conservation. My research interests are entirely participatory in nature, located within a theoretical framework of human and political ecology. In addition to long research in Honduras, I have also worked with farmers in the highlands of Central Mexico and in the Yucatan peninsula.

Selected Publications:

2008 (with J. Jimenez, F. Sierra, O. Gallardo). Sharing in Innovation: Reflections on a Partnership to Improve Livelihoods and Resource Conservation in the Honduran Hillsides. Ed. Louise Fortmann. Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together. UK: Blackwell Publishing: Conservation Science and Practice Series.

2008 In Press (with L. Classen, J. Fitzsimons, S. Kaaria, J. Jimenez, F. Sierra, O. Gallardo). Opening Participatory Spaces for the Most Marginal: Learning From Collective Action in the Honduran Hillsides. World Development (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.04.007).

2008 (with C. Almekinders, A.von Lossau) The effectiveness of participatory plant breeding as a tool to capitalize on agrobiodiversity in developing countries. Biodiversity: Journal of Life on Earth. Special Issue: Biodiversity and Agriculture. 9(1 and 2): 41-44.

2008 (with O. Gallardo, J. Jimenez, F. Sierra, Association of CIALs of Yorito, Victoria and Sulaco). Working with Farmer Research Committees in Participatory Bean Breeding in Honduras. Eds. M.H. Thijssen, Z. Bishaw, A. Beshir, W.S. de Boef. Farmers’ Varieties and Seeds: Supporting Informal Seed Supply in Ethiopia. Wageningen: Wageningen International.

January 2005 (with O. Gallardo, J. Jimenez, F. Sierra and members of the Association of CIALs of Yorito, Victoria and Sulaco). ‘Linking Small Farmers to the Formal Research Sector: Lessons from a Participatory Bean Breeding Programme in Honduras’. AgREN Network Paper, Overseas Development Institute, UK http://www.odi.org.uk/agren/papers/agrenpaper_142.pdf

July 2000 (with J. Gonzales, J. Jimenez, F. Sierra). ‘Searching for Sustainable Land Use Practices in Honduras: Lessons from a Programme of Participatory Research with Hillside Farmers’. AgREN Network Paper, #104, Overseas Development Institute, UKhttp://www.odi.org.uk/agren/papers/agrenpaper_104.pdf

1998. “Milk Cows, Migrants and Land Markets: Unraveling the Complexities of Forest to Pasture Conversion in Northern Honduras”. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 47 (1): 95-124.

1993. “The Intensification of Traditional Agriculture Among Yucatec Maya Farmers: Facing up to the Dilemma of Livelihood Sustainability”. Human Ecology, 21(1): 87-102.

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