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Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah speaks on podcast about Cannabis and the Criminalization of Black Canadians

June 03, 2020

Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah recently contributed to a Policy Options podcast entitled "Cannabis and the Criminalization of Black Canadians." Policy Options is an online newsletter sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy Research. It airs podcasts every second Wednesday.

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Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah on how to reduce police violence

June 03, 2020

Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah spoke to Mugglehead News in response to US House of Representatives suggesting that the War on Drugs was responsible for increases in police violence, particularly against Black people.

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Recent PhD graduate, Anelyse Weiler, to begin Tenure Track position at the University of Victoria

May 28, 2020

PhD Candidate Anelyse Weiler will be joining the University of Victoria's Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor. Before her new position begins in July, she will be defending her dissertation on 12 June.

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Recent Phd Graduate Merin Oleschuk to begin Tenure Track position at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 12, 2020

Recent PhD recipient, Merin Oleschuk will begin a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Merin graduated on January 10, 2020.

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Congratulations to Taylor Price, one of 25 finalists in SSHRC Storytellers Contest

May 11, 2020

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Taylor Price who recently learned that his submission to the SSHRC Storytellers Competition has been named one of the finalists for 2021.

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Professor Melissa Milkie on ‘The pressure cooker’ of working from home and homeschooling

May 07, 2020

The UTM Research News recently published an interview with Professor Melissa Milkie about the difficulties of balancing work and family life. Professor Milkie is a Full Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Tri-Campus Graduate Department.

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Professor Cynthia Cranford: Pandemic exposes deep flaws in Canadian home care system

May 07, 2020

The UTM Research News has recently published an interview with Professor Cynthia Cranford about care work during the pandemic. Professor Cranford is an Associate Professor of Sociology with undergraduate teaching responsibilities at the Mississauga campus.

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Sociology students build grassroots volunteer-run initiative to help those in need during COVID-19 pandemic

April 24, 2020

In the earliest days of the COVID outbreak, a small collective of people working to support QT/BIPOC (queer and trans, Black and Indigenous People of Colour) communities put out a call through the Caremongering – Toronto Facebook page for other groups to come together and replicate the mutual aid model.

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Sociology Research Contributes to Lessening the Impact of COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Many of the Faculty in the Sociology Department have recently adjusted their research to address issues arising as a result of COVID-19 as well as the social distancing and economic shutdown that have been put in place to contain the pandemic.

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Professor Joe Hermer on the impact of COVID-19 on the Homeless in Ontario

April 23, 2020

Professor Joe Hermer has recently co-authored an article in The Conversation discussing the need to protect the homeless during the pandemic. The article warns that police enforcing Ontario's Safe Streets Act that targets homeless people will put them in danger, not only with the law, but also risk spreading the pandemic.

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