Sociology Faculty
Please see below to find out more about our exciting sociology faculty, who have a range of backgrounds and research and teaching interests.
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Dr. Kelly Fritsch named Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice
Professor Kelly Fritsch from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has been named Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice. Dr. Fritsch’s research,…
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Sociology Prof. Azar Masoumi discusses Carleton’s “Impartiality Policy” on CBC
Sociology Prof. Azar Masoumi interviewed on CBC’s Ottawa Morning on Carleton’s plans to implement “Impartiality Policy”. Listen to the interview here.
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Professor Kelly Fritsch publishes Special Issue in Frontiers of Sociology
Professor Kelly Fritsch has published a special issue on “Affecting, Emoting, and Feeling Disability; Entanglements at the Intersection of Disability Studies and the Sociology of…
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Tonya Davidson Featured on CBC’s “Information Morning”
Dr. Tonya Davidson, Sociology Associate Professor, was recently featured on CBC Cape Breton’s Information Morning with Don Munro. She discussed the second edition of her…
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Dr. Laura Hall Publishes New Book “Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror”
Congratulations to Dr. Laura Hall, Associate Professor of Sociology, for publishing a new book titled Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes: Settler Colonialism in Horror! The publisher…
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Dr. Tonya Davidson Publishes New Book “Seasonal Sociology, Second Edition”
Due to the success of Seasonal Sociology (first edition, 2020), the editors Tonya Davidson and Ondine Park developed a second edition. This edition has six…
Sociology Faculty and Their Research Interests
| Name, Contact Information, and Research Interests | |
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 | Xiaobei Chen* xiaobei.chen@carleton.ca The child citizen; governance; racism; culturalism; colonialism; migration |
 | Deborah Conners deborah.conners@carleton.ca Community engagement; social justice; politics and reconciliation of gender issues; feminism; men’s organizations; sociology of knowledge; racialization and racism |
 | Tonya Davidson* tonya.davidson@carleton.ca Urban spaces; public memory; nostalgia; popular culture; Canadian identity |
 | Aaron Doyle* aaron.doyle@carleton.ca Critical and public criminology; risk, insurance, and security; surveillance; crime and media |
 | William Flynn william.flynn3@carleton.ca Historical and contemporary forms of travel and tourism; tourist guidebooks; how identities are formed under liminal and unusual circumstances |
 | Kelly Fritsch* kellyfritsch@cunet.carleton.ca Critical disability studies; science and technology studies; political economy; social movement studies; social and political theory. |
 | Neil Gerlach* neil.gerlach@carleton.ca Apocalypse culture; sociology of war; biotechnology and social control |
 | Laura Hall* laurajhall@cunet.carleton.ca Decolonizing methodologies through arts and land-based learning; settler colonial studies, cultural production and pop culture analysis; Indigenous environmental theory and settler colonialism; decolonial social welfare studies; Indigenous anarchist and feminist theories |
 | Katharine Kelly* katharine.kelly@carleton.ca Homicide; gendered violence; youth crime; youth gangs |
 | Jacqueline Kennelly* jacqueline.kennelly@carleton.ca Youth cultures; urban sociology; social movements; citizenship; phenomenology; qualitative methods; homelessness; Olympics |
 | Zhiqiu Lin* zhiqiu.lin@carleton.ca Theories of crime and crime trends; legal development in China; Chinese society; the sociology of law; quantitative research methodology and data analysis |
 | Azar Masoumi* azar.masoumi@carleton.ca Politics of state-controlled refugee protection; gender-based and queer refugees; sex and sovereignty; limitations of feminist legal change; race and neoliberalism; state multiculturalism |
 | Amina Mire* amina.mire@carleton.ca Women and health, science and technology; racialization and biomedicalization of women’s bodies and skin; anti-ageing; political thought; sociology of gender; sociology of knowledge; gender and the cinema; anti-racist/anti-colonial research |
 | Michael Mopas* michael.mopas@carleton.ca Sound studies; science, technology and law; cultural studies; criminology and sociolegal studies; food studies |
 | Carlos Novas* carlos.novas@carleton.ca Biopolitics; governmentality; science and technology studies; biological citizenship; biosociality |
| Augustine Park* augustine.park@carleton.ca Transitional justice, restorative justice, community-based justice; colonial and settler colonialism; race, racialization, racism; global southern childhoods |
 | Justin Paulson* justin.paulson@carleton.ca Political economy; social movements; settler colonialism; Marxist theory; aesthetics and politics |
| Steven Prus* steven.prus@carleton.ca Social epidemiology; gerontology; multivariate statistics |
 | Rebecca Schein* rebecca.schein@carleton.ca Marxist political economy and cultural studies; commodification and decommodification of public goods and services; rights, commons, citizenship, and moral claims; mutual aid and social movement dynamics; social movement or community unionism; political cultures of solidarity |
 | Alexis Shotwell* alexis.shotwell@carleton.ca Impurity and imperfection as a basis for action, environmental justice, racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and collective political transformation. |
 | Rania Tfaily* rania.tfaily@carleton.ca Social demography; social class, gender and caregiving; contemporary changes in marriage and family formation; new family forms; family background and children’s education; socio-economic disparities in health |
 | Carieta Thomas** carieta.thomas@carleton.ca Race and ethnicity, international migration, gender, sociology of labour, intersectionality theory and methods, as well as socio-legal studies. |
 | William Walters* william.walters@carleton.ca Political sociology; borders and migration; secrecy and security; genealogies of politics and government |
Sociology Faculty in Other Departments
| Name | Interests |
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| Leila Angod** leila.angod@carleton.ca | Critical race theory; Black and race radical theory; Black, Indigenous, and women of colour feminisms; decolonial methodologies; sociology of education; critical youth studies; speculative fiction and futures |
| Alexandra Arraiz Matute* AlexandraArraiz@cunet.carleton.ca | Education; race & ethnicity; migration and diaspora; language & identity; feminist and indigenous research methodologies |
| Patricia Ballamingie* patricia.ballamingie@carleton.ca | Localizing food systems and sustainable community; community-university partnerships; environmental conflict and deliberative democracy |
| Miranda J. Brady* mirandabrady@cunet.carleton.ca | Communication, Media, and 1.) Motherhood Studies, Reproductive Labour, and Care Work and 2.) Critical Autism Studies / Critical Disability Studies |
| Susan Braedley* susan.braedley@carleton.ca | Political economy of health care and social services work; social reproduction theory and feminist political economy; gender and social policy; disability and ageing; radical social work practice and theory |
| Nicolas Carrier* nicolas.carrier@carleton.ca | Social systems theory; theoretical criminology; social control; sociology of law and punishment; moralization; biocriminology; drug policies |
| Patrizia Gentile* patrizia.gentile@carleton.ca | Cultural/gender history; history of sexuality; history and theory of the body; beauty contests; national security; October Crisis and immigrant communities; queer theory |
| Jennifer Henderson* jennifer.henderson@carleton.ca | Canadian literature; cultural studies in and of Canada; settler colonialism; gender studies |
| Lara Karaian* lara.karaian@carleton.ca | Legal regulation and construction of sex, gender and sexuality; feminist, critical race, queer and transgender legal theory; critical criminology; cultural criminology; porn studies |
| Anna Kopec* anna.kopec@carleton.ca | Public policy, inequality, comparative public policy, policy design, political participation |
| Alexander McClelland** alexander.mcclelland@carleton.ca | Critical criminology and critical social science; surveillance studies and medico-legal surveillance; confidentiality; privacy; data protection |
| Jeffrey Monaghan* jeffrey.monaghan@carleton.ca | Security governance; policing; surveillance of social movements; settler colonial studies; social movements studies; globalization of surveillance and security practices |
| Dawn Moore* dawn.moore@carleton.ca | The role of photographic evidence, feminism; queer theory; Actor-Network Theory and cultural studies; the constitution of criminalized subjectivities; political and public engagement; prisoners experience of imprisonment |
| Allan Moscovitch* allan.moscovitch@carleton.ca | History of the Welfare State in Canada; social administration, particularly the administration of social assistance; Federal/Provincial relations and social welfare; Indigenous peoples and social welfare; poverty |
| Xuan Thuy Nguyen* XuanThuyNguyen@cunet.carleton.ca | Critical disability studies; critical policy studies; inclusive education; critical theory; human rights and post-colonial studies; visual methodologies |
| George Rigakos* george.rigakos@carleton.ca | Pacification; anti-security; political economy of public and private policing; increasing role of Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) in local governance and security; nightclubs as spectacles of risk; insecurity and consumption in late capitalism; mutualism; cooperative production |
| Megan Rivers-Moore* megan.riversmoore@carleton.ca | Intersections of sociology, gender studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies; how sexuality operates transnationally; gendered affective labour, travel and tourism; race and ethnicity; postcolonial and transnational feminisms; qualitative methods |
| Fady Shanouda* fady.shanouda@carleton.ca | Critical Disability Studies scholar whose research examines disabled and mad students’ experiences in higher education. His scholarly contributions lie at the theoretical and pedagogical intersections of Disability, Mad, and Fat Studies and include socio-historical examinations that surface the interconnections of colonialism, racism, ableism/sanism and fatphobia. |
| Julia Sinclair-Palm** julia.sinclairpalm@carleton.ca | Queer and trans youth; sexuality education; qualitative research methods; theories of teaching and learning; inclusive practices and policies; community engagement; youth activism |
| Dale Spencer* dale.spencer@carleton.ca | Criminalization of Marginalized Populations, with a focus on youth and homeless people; violence; victimization |
| Julie Tomiak* julie.tomiak@carleton.ca | The role of research in Indigenous community-building in Toronto, a critical analysis of the federal government’s urban Indigenous policy, the relationship between old and new forms of enclosure, settler violence and Indigenous resistance against dispossession and infrastructures of settler capitalism in British Columbia |
* May supervise both MA and PhD theses
** May supervise MA theses and co-supervise PhD theses until granted tenure, when will have full supervision status.
*** May co-supervise MA and PhD theses with the permission of FGPA
Supervision status is granted based on rank. If you have questions about supervisory status, please consult the Graduate Administrator. The legend above is meant as an indication only. Please make sure to consult with the faculty you’re interested in working with. This table indicates which types of professors, instructors, and adjunct faculty are eligible to serve as Supervisors, Co-Supervisors, and Committee members for M.A. and Ph.D. student theses.
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