Marie-Pier Guay

B.A. (Hons.) (Bishop's)
M.A. Candidate

 

Email: 11mpag@queensu.ca
Office: C505 Mackintosh-Corry
Phone: (613) 533-6000 x 78541

Supervisor: Dr. Annette Burfoot

Research Areas and Interests

Human (Sex) Trafficking, Human Rights, Women Inequalities, Sociology of Sport, Surveillance, Foucauldian Theories, Sociology of Deviance, & Transnationalism.

Education

• Master of Arts, Sociology:  Socio-Legal Concentration (In Progress), Queen’s University

• B.A. Honours Sociology:  Criminology, Law & Social Policy Concentration. (2008-2011), Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, QC) With Distinction

• University Studies, Psychology.  (August 2006-December 2007), Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

Academic Experience

• Fall 2011/Winter 2012: Teaching Assistant SOCY 122: Introduction to Sociology (Dr. Rob Beamish)

• May 2011: Research Assistant/Interviewer (Professor Barbara Hunting, M.A. PhD Candidate; AfriGrand Caravan Experience of Local Grandmothers within the Stephen Lewis Foundation with regards to the effects on African Grandmothers and HIV/AIDS.)

• Winter 2010: Notetaker SOC321: Sociology of Technology, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC.

Major Undergraduate Research

• Guay, Marie-Pier. April 2011. B.A. Experiential Learning Program's Major Research: "Rehabilitative & Reintegrative Mindsets: A Cooperation between Parolees, Probation Officers and their Programs, & the Community" (Based on 95 Hours of Volunteer Work at the CRC La Traverse), ETRC & the Department of Sociology, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC. Under the Supervision of Professor Caroline Viens.

Awards & Distinctions

• Fall 2011: Blakely Family Student Initiatives Fund Recipient

• 2011-2012: Senator Frank Carrel Fellowship

• 2010-2011: Bishop's University Academic Honour Roll

• Winter 2011: Experiential Learning Internships Grand Fund Recipient (ELIGF)

• 2010-2011: H. Greville Smith Memorial Scholarship in Science

• 2009-2010: Bishop's University Academic Honour Roll

Volunteer Work

• 2011:  Escort Volunteer (Community-Based Residential Facility for offenders on parole or under mandatory supervision, sentenced by the courts or awaiting trial.)  CRC La Traverse, Sherbrooke, QC.