PhD candidate Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra has won the 2024 Professor Frank Pearce Essay Prize, an award for graduate students who submit the best essay on the topic of radical critical theory and social justice.

Daniela’s paper, Racism in the Platformized Cultural Industries: Precarity, Visibility & Harassment, examines how racialized content creators experience racism multilaterally, which works to produce barriers that limit creators ability to materially gain, build meaningful narratives of belonging, and feel safe within these environments. 

Dr. Myers speaks on the need to change the culture of bail court decision-making in Canada. 

Click here to read the CCLA report.

Dr. Golshan Golriz and colleagues have published their latest work - How LGBTQ+ People are Creating Change in Their Faith Communities - in the American Sociological Association Journal Contexts. 

For LGBTQ+ people, religion can be a source of oppression as well as a source of healing and inspiration. Within three socially conservative religious traditions, the authors uncover LGBTQ+ adherents’ efforts to make their faiths more inclusive.

We are very happy to announce the publication of Dr. Fauzia Husain's first book: The Stigma Matrix:  Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women, published by Stanford University Press. Details, excerpts, and reviews of the book are here: Stanford University Press

Many congratulations Fauzia! 

The Department of Sociology is remembering our friend and colleague Vincent Mosco, Professor in the Department in the 1980s and returning as a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in 2003, and Emeritus Professor from 2011. He was a major international figure in the Sociology of Media and Communications, a prolific author, as well as a treasured colleague and mentor to many graduate students. A full list of his work can be found at vincentmosco.com    

Kailey Walker won a fellowship at the Environmental Media Lab!&nbs

Emeritus Professor David Lyon just returned from contributing to a doctoral winter school at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar and will be teaching a two-week doctoral school - also on surveillance - at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.