James Lannigan

PhD Candidate

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Research and teaching areas: Social Research Methods, Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, Urban Sociology

James Lannigan is a PhD candidate enrolled in the Sociology department at the University of Toronto. His current research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of the Sociology of Culture, Social Networks, and Urban Sociology. His dissertation work focuses on the networks of specialty coffee retailers paying close attention to the development of distinct identity-making practices and their contemporary adaptation to challenges in the marketplace from chain competition. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, James has been recently focusing on how this population has adapted their organizational practices to deal with uncertainties facing the niche as a whole.

Dissertation title: “Discourse and structure: An examination of the organizational identities and networks of contemporary specialty coffee retailers”

Dissertation committee: Bonnie Erickson (supervisor), Clayton Childress, Josée Johnston

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