People
Faculty
Tracy Bear
Director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI)
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Faculty
Indigenous Studies Program
Luca Berardi
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Criminology, Ethnography, Policing, Prisons, Social Psychology, Violence
Phillipa Chong
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Social Inequality
Jeffrey Denis
Associate Professor
Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality, Social Psychology
Tina Fetner
Chair of the Department of Sociology
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology and Social Movements, Social Inequality
Paul Glavin
Associate Professor
Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Employment, Occupational Health, Occupations and Organization, Precarious Employment, Statistics, Work and Occupations
Melanie Heath
Associate Professor | Graduate Chair of the Department of Sociology
Members
Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality
Gregory Hooks
Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Big Data, Climate, Water & Sustainability, Community Based Research, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Politics and History, Prisons, Social Inequality
Lisa Kaida
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Aging and Pensions, Big Data, Canadian public policy, Employment, Immigration, Occupations and Organization, Poverty, Precarious Employment, Sport, Work and Occupations
Cyril Levitt
Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality
Neil McLaughlin
Professor
Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Social Psychology
Geraldina Polanco
Assistant Professor
Faculty
School of Labour Studies
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Citizenship Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Ethnic Relations, Globalization, Industrial Relations
Karen Robson
Associate Professor | Ontario Research Chair in Educational Achievement and At-Risk Youth
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality
Victor Satzewich
Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality
Vanessa Watts
Assistant Professor | Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Faculty
Indigenous Studies Program
David Young
Assistant Professor | Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Sociology
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Communications, Cultural Studies, Media, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Social Inequality
Marisa Young
Associate Professor | Canada Research Chair in Mental Health and Work-Life Transitions
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Social Inequality, Social Psychology
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Kerry Anne Bailey
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality
Jessica Braimoh
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Maja Jovanovic
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Rhona Shaw
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Deviance and Social Problems, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Health Care, Qualitative Methods
Erica Speakman
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Deviance and Social Problems, Individual and Society
Carlos Torres
Contract and Sessional Faculty
Department of Sociology
Associate Members
James Gillett
Associate Dean, Grad Studies and Research, of Faculty of Social Sciences | Associate Professor
Associate Members
School of Social Work
Faculty
Master of Public Policy Program
Associate Members
Department of Sociology
Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society
Area(s) of Interest: Health, Media, Social Psychology, Sport and Physical Activity
Adjunct Faculty
Arig al Shaibah
Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion | Adjunct Associate Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Intergroup Relations, Race and Racism , Social Inequality
Casey Scheibling
Adjunct Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender, Sexuality, and Family, Health, Ideology and Culture, Media, Social Psychology
Emeritus Faculty
Margaret Denton
Professor Emeritus
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Sociology
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society
John Fox
Professor Emeritus
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Social Inequality, Social Psychology
Dorothy Pawluch
Associate Professor
Faculty
Social Psychology Program
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Social Psychology
William Shaffir
Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Social Psychology
Robert Storey
Associate Professor | School of Labour Studies
Emeritus Faculty
School of Labour Studies
Emeritus Faculty
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Employment, Gender and Sexuality, Globalization & Transnationalism, Health, Movements, Political Sociology and Social Movements, Public Economics, Race, Social Inequality
PhD Students
Mohammed Al-ani
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Social Movements, Social Policy
Carlo Handy Charles
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Mental Health, Political Sociology, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Qualitative data analysis, Qualitative Methods, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Sexuality and Family, Social Inequalities, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Statistics
Michelle Goldenberg
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
Richard Kanary
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Social Psychology
Andrey Kasimov
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Media, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements
Tierney Kobryn-Dietrich
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Critical Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity
Amanda Lancia
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
Allison S.F. Leanage
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Social Inequality, Social Psychology
Sarah May Lindsay
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Anti Oppression, Deviance and Social Problems, Gender, Sexuality, and Family, Gender violence, Housing and Homelessness, Mental Health, Poverty, Social Inequalities, Social Movements, Social Psychology, Violence
Nick Martino
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Immigration, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Social Inequality
Mollie McGuire
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Community Based Research, Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge, Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity
Alan Santinele Martino
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Disability, Gender and Sexuality, Qualitative Methods, Social Inequality, Theory
Max Stick
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Social Inequality, Sport
Julian Torelli
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Deviance and Social Problems, Ethnography, Political Sociology, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
James Watson
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Work and Occupations
Leili Yousefi
PhD Students
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Political Sociology and Social Movements, Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration, Social Policy, Transantionalism and Globalization
Staff
Postdoctoral Fellows
Raimund Haindorfer
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellows
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Labour Markets
Nicole Malette
Postdoctoral Fellows
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Education, Mental Health, Social Inequality
Diana Singh
Postdoctoral Fellows
Department of Sociology
Area(s) of Interest: Gender and Sexuality, Mental Health, Occupational Health, Occupations and Organization, Work and Occupations