Faculty

stickied people directory entry

Professor | Department Head | Undergraduate Chair (Acting)

handm@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D424

Research Areas: Sociology of Culture, Media, and Technology; Digital Culture and Society; Visual Culture; Sociology of Consumption and Consumerism

Associate Professor

thomas.abrams@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D421

Research Areas: Disability Studies, Sociology of Health and Illness, Medical Sociology, Digital Platforms and Assistive Technology, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Sociological Theory, Qualitative Research.

Professor Emeritus

barons@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D417

Research Areas: Criminology; Young Offenders

Professor Emeritus

beamishr@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D401

Research Areas: Classical social theory; The ontology of Being; Modernity in the early twentieth century

Professor Emerita

burfoota@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D424

Research Areas: Science and Technology Studies (reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, human anatomy and manufacture); Feminist Social Thought; Visual Culture.

Assistant Professor

golshan.golriz@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D423

Research Areas: Gender; Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Islam; Middle East and North Africa; Social Movements; Political Sociology; Qualitative Methods and Methodologies

Assistant Professor

fauzia.husain@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D426

Research Areas: Gender; Sexuality; Cultural Sociology; Social Theory; Globalization; Immigration; Muslim Communities; Islamophobia; Qualitative Methods.

Professor

kayf@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D527

Research Areas: Sociology of law; Sociology of professions; Work and occupations; Life course research; Quantitative and mixed methods

Professor Emeritus

lyond@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D526

Research Areas: Surveillance and Social Sorting; Big Data Surveillance; Identification Regimes; Privacy; Information Technologies; Christian Social Critique

Associate Professor

norma.mollers@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D531

Research Areas: Science and Technology Studies; AI; algorithms; data infrastructures; technology and inequality; techno-nationalism; digital geopolitics; digital colonialism

Associate Professor | Graduate Coordinator

nicole.myers@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D524

Research Areas: Bail and pre-trial detention; Supervision and conditions of release; Court processing and sentencing; Punishment and social control; Criminal justice policy

Research Areas: Sociology of deviance, criminology, community reactions to crime, urban sociology and mass media, Social Constructionist Theory

Associate Professor

victoria.sytsma@queensu.ca

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D523

Research Areas: Applied Criminology; Policy and Program Evaluation; Canadian and American Policing; Open-air drug markets; Opportunity theories of crime; Quantitative Data Analysis

Research Areas: Digital Justice, Algorithmic Culture, Critical Coding Studies, Intersectional Internet Studies, Post-Colonial and Anti-Colonial Feminist Approaches to Science and Technology Studies, Cybercolonialism, Migration and Mobilities, Mobile/Migrant Feminism, Marginalized knowledge forms and research methodologies.