Robert Brym
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Professor Ph.D., University of Toronto - 1976 Email : rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca Phone: (416) 978-3410 Personal Webpage |
Robert J Brym is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto (St. George). He studied at Dalhousie University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Toronto. He taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1976 to 1978 and then joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, becoming a Full Professor in 1984. Professor Brym has recently taught SOC 101 and a graduate seminar in social movements. He has received several teaching awards, including the University of Toronto’s President’s Teaching Award (2010), the University of Toronto’s top teaching prize.
Professor Brym’s research focuses on politics and social movements in Canada, Russia, and the Middle East. He is a leading authority on the politics of intellectuals, emigration from the former Soviet Union, the development of sociology in Canada, and suicide bombers in Israel/Palestine. He is now conducting research on the democracy movement in the Middle East and North Africa. His work – including more than 100 scholarly papers, six monographs and seven edited collections – has been published in twelve countries and translated into eight languages. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and research, including the Outstanding Contribution Award of the Canadian Sociology Association and the Northrop Frye Award. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.