Professors

Shahid Alvi, PhD
Professor
- Digital victimization and netnography
- Social exclusion
- Online incivility
- Violence against women
- Left realism
- Youth crime
- Political economy
- Technology and education

Tyler Frederick, PhD
Associate Professor
- Sociology
- Criminology
- Housing and Homelessness
- Youth
- Gender

Gary Genosko, PhD
Professor
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Cultural Sociology
- Food and society
- Surveillance studies

Jordan Harel, PhD
Senior Teaching Professor
- Deviance
- Crime
- Social Control
- Sociology of work occupations and professions
Steven Hayle, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
- International Criminal Justice
- Comparative Drug Policy Analysis
- Sociological Theory
- Socio-legal Theory

Zenia Kish, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Digital/social media
- Globalization & global media
- Climate/environment/sustainability, development
- Food & agriculture systems
- Anthropocene
- Neoliberalism
- Critical finance studies/economic sociology
- Consumer culture
- War and culture
- Social movements
- Imperialism & postcolonialism
- American studies

Timothy MacNeill, PhD
Senior Teaching Professor
- inequality
- Indigenous movements
- sustainable development
- international development
- political economy
- globalization
- corporate social responsibility
- food sovereignty
- behavioural economics
- cultural economy

Tanner Mirrlees, PhD
Professor
- Sociology of Media
- Sociology of Technology
- Political Sociology
- Sociology of Capitalism
- Sociology of Elites
- Sociology of Art
- Creativity, and Culture
- Sociology of Education
- Sociology of Activism
- Sociology of Economy
- Sociology of Environment
- Sociology of Energy
- Sociology of Empire / Imperialism
- Global Sociology

Christopher O'Connor, PhD
Associate Professor
- Policing
- Youth & Society Urban Sociology
- Cities & Communities
- Emerging and Disruptive Technology Use & Perceptions

Kanika Samuels Wortley, PhD
Associate Professor
- Race, racism and the criminal justice system
- Critical race theory
- Predictive AI technologies within criminal justice processes

Hannah Scott, PhD
Professor
- Vulnerable populations
- Deviance
- Statistics
- Methods
- Evaluation
- Gendered victimization experience
- Workplace violence
- Homicide

James Walsh, PhD
Associate Professor
- Moral Panic Media (traditional and Digital)
- Terrorism Security/Surveillance
- Social Theory
- Political Sociology
- Globalization and Transnationalism

Arshia U. Zaidi, PhD
Associate Professor
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Immigration
- Hate Crime
- IPV
- Methodology
- Statistics