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Sociology

Adam Green

Associate Professor

Adam Green

Areas of Expertise

  • HIV/AIDS
  • LGBTQ
  • Medical sociology
  • Political underpinnings of Gay/Bisexual/MSM HIV prevention
  • Same sex marriage
  • Sexuality

Office: 416-978-8261
Website
Email: adamisaiah.green@utoronto.ca
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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cannabis
  • Crime
  • Criminal justice
  • Defunding police
  • Drug policy
  • Drugs
  • Policing
  • Protests and marches on both sides of the border
  • Public policy
  • Race and crime
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Race and racism
  • Racialized law enforcement
  • Racism and criminal justice
  • Rayshard Brooks
  • Social policy

Office: (416) 978-7124 Ext. 240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Bonnie Erickson

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Inequality
  • Social capital and networks

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ericson@chass.utoronto.ca

Candace Kruttschnitt

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender and Crime
  • Penology

Office: 416-978-8487
Website
Email: c.kruttschnitt@utoronto.ca
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Chris M. Smith

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • crime and inequality
  • feminist criminology
  • historical research methods
  • illicit markets
  • organized crime
  • social network analysis
  • sociology of gender
  • urban sociology
  • violence

Office: N/A
Website
Email: cm.smith@utoronto.ca

Daniel Silver

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cultural policy
  • Local amenities and urban development
  • Social Theory
  • urban sociology

Office: 416-208-2698
Website
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Ellen Berrey

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Affirmative action
  • Benefit corporations
  • Civil rights and employment discrimination in the United States
  • Diversity and multiculturalism
  • Hate speech
  • Racism and prejudice
  • Social movements
  • University admissions in the United States

Office: N/A
Website
Email: ellen.berrey@utoronto.ca
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Emine Fidan Elcioglu

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Class
  • Gender
  • Migration & Refugee Studies
  • Political Sociology
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Work & Labor

Office: N/A
Languages: Turkish,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: fidan.elcioglu@utoronto.ca

Gail Super

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Criminology: Law and Society
  • Punishment and Society
  • Vigilantism

Office: N/A
Mobile: 647-239-3206
Website
Email: gail.super@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Hae Yeon Choo

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Asia and Asian diaspora
  • Citizenship and migration
  • Labour
  • Race, gender, class
  • Social Theory
  • Urban politics

Office: N/A
Website
Email: hy.choo@utoronto.ca

Harvey Nicholson Jr

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Health disparities
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Social determinants of health
  • Substance use behaviors

Office: N/A
Website
Email: harvey.nicholsonjr@utoronto.ca

Ito Peng

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Canada’s approach to long-term care
  • Child care policy
  • East Asia/Asia Pacific public policy
  • East-west comparisons
  • Elder care policy
  • Family and gender policies
  • Fertility
  • Japan
  • Marriage and aging society
  • Social policy
  • South Korea
  • System issues in long-term care
  • Systemic issues at LTC facilities
  • Taiwan
  • Women and migration

Office: 416-946-5902
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: itopeng@chass.utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Human rights
  • Immigrant employment
  • Immigration
  • Immigration policy
  • Management of diversity issues
  • Multiculturalism in western countries
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Racism in Canada & improving efforts to combat it
  • U.S. race relations
  • Workplace issues

Office: N/A
Home: 416-465-5596
Mobile: 416-465-5596
Website
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
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Jerry Flores

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Alternative schools
  • Correctional education
  • Gender and Crime
  • Intersectionality and criminology and studies of race and ethnicity
  • Latina/o sociology
  • Prison studies

Office: N/A
Languages: Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: jerry.flores@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jillian Sunderland

Ph.D. Student

Areas of Expertise

  • Ethnicity
  • Far-Right Movements
  • Gender Violence
  • Immigration
  • Masculinity
  • Media coverage of crime
  • Race
  • Racial inequality

Office: N/A
Website
Email: Jillian.sunderland@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Joanna Pepin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture, Policy, Methods
  • Inequality, Family, Gender,
  • Work, Health & Well-being,

Office: N/A
Website
Email: j.pepin@utoronto.ca

Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Crime victims
  • Gangs
  • Gun Violence
  • Guns
  • Hip Hop
  • Mixed martial arts
  • Murder
  • Police reform
  • Racism
  • RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
  • Serial killers

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca
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Jordan Foster

PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Celebrity
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Social media
  • Wealth

Office: 647-561-7287
Email: jordann.foster@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Josée Johnston

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Consumer culture
  • Globalization
  • Political Ecology and Critical Social Theory
  • Sociology of Food

Office: N/A
Website
Email: josee.johnston@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Bryant

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Philosophy of science
  • Sociology of culture
  • The Mediterranean worlds of ancient Greece and Rome, with a specific focus on the rise of Christianity

Office: 416 946 5901
Website
Email: joseph.bryant@utoronto.ca
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Judith Taylor

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and Popular Culture as relates to other expertise
  • Feminism and Feminist Perspective
  • Gender Relations
  • Social Movements and Activism
  • Social policy
  • Sociological framings of social problems

Office: 416-946-5720
Website
Email: judith.taylor@utoronto.ca
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Julius Haag

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Gangs
  • Police Accountability and Reform
  • Policing
  • Race and racism
  • Youth Culture and Crime
  • Youth justice

Office: N/A
Website
Email: julius.haag@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kayla Preston

PhD Student

Areas of Expertise

  • Extremism
  • Far-right
  • Radicalization
  • Right-wing extremism
  • Social media

Office: N/A
Email: kayla.preston@mail.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Kristin Victoria Plys

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Capitalism
  • Colonialism/Imperialism
  • Comparative and Historical Sociology
  • Economic History
  • Global & Transnational History
  • Histories of the Café Culture
  • Labour/Left History
  • Marxism
  • Oral history
  • Political economy
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • The Global Sout

Office: N/A
Website
Email: kristin.plys@utoronto.ca

Leafia Ye

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Aging and the life course
  • Immigrant integration
  • Immigrants in the U.S. and Canada
  • International Migration

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Chinese (Mandarin),Chinese (Cantonese),German
Website
Email: leafia.ye@utoronto.ca

Luisa Farah Schwartzman

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Brazil
  • Race and ethnicity

Office: (905) 569-4611
Website
Email: luisa.fs@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Melissa Milkie

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Gender
  • Mental health
  • Parenting/Family relations
  • Time Use
  • Work-Family Balance

Office: N/A
Website
Email: melissa.milkie@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Monica Boyd

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Immigrant offspring
  • Immigration
  • Parental-young adult co-residency
  • Population

Office: (416) 946-5906
Website
Email: monica.boyd@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Patricia Landolt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Global migration
  • Non/citizenship
  • Precarious legal status

Office: 416-287-7156
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,French,Portuguese
Website
Email: p.landolt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Patricia Romero-Lankao

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Governance and institutional capacities to adapt to and mitigate environmental risks in cities.
  • The dynamics of urbanization and urban systems that shape inequality in risk at multiple scales
  • The links between risks and food, energy and water (FEW) systems in cities

Office: 416-208-5066
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,English,German
Website
Email: paty.romerolankao@utoronto.ca

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