“Ten faculty and staff members who were nominated this year and in previous rounds of the program, are being honoured as recurring, ‘Superstar’ Champions for Mental Health. Superstar Champion sociology teaching assistant Megan Ingram told the Student Mental Health Collective that they “recognize students as people with expansive lives, of which their academic work is just one part.

Dr. Nicole Myers comments on Canada's bail system in an address to the Justice Committee.

Part of Dr. Saulnier's research focus is how police use of technology affects relationships with the communities they serve. In this chapter, she describes how historically interpersonal interactions between police and citizens are changing to take on technologically mediated or automated forms, and how these changes relate to discussions of race and policing.

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The Department of Sociology is remembering our dear friend and colleague Elia Zureik, Professor in the Department between 1971 and 2005, and Emeritus Professor from 2005. He was a major international figure, a prolific author and intellectual, as well as a treasured colleague. We share ongoing reflections below.

Vince Sacco (Emeritus Professor, Sociology)

Dr. Thomas Abrams has published a new article in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies titled, "Waves of Ableism: Affective Arrangements in the Time of COVID-19." https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/930

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