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Congratulations to Gaye Onurer (PhD), Hannah Walsh (MA), and Adri Prattas (BA Hons) who are recipients for the 2024 Canadian Sociological Association's Outstanding Graduating Student Award.

Dr. Fiona Kay selected by the Canadian Sociological Association for the !

The Department of Sociology in collaboration with CIRST at UQAM and the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York is co-organizing the inaugural STS North Summer School. The Summer School will take place August 27-29 in Montreal, and is focused on the needs of early-career STS researchers situated in Canada.

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PhD candidate Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra has won the 2024 Professor Frank Pearce Essay Prize, an award for graduate students who submit the best essay on the topic of radical critical theory and social justice.

Daniela’s paper, Racism in the Platformized Cultural Industries: Precarity, Visibility & Harassment, examines how racialized content creators experience racism multilaterally, which works to produce barriers that limit creators ability to materially gain, build meaningful narratives of belonging, and feel safe within these environments. 

Dr. Myers speaks on the need to change the culture of bail court decision-making in Canada. 

Dr. Golshan Golriz and colleagues have published their latest work - . 

For LGBTQ+ people, religion can be a source of oppression as well as a source of healing and inspiration. Within three socially conservative religious traditions, the authors uncover LGBTQ+ adherents’ efforts to make their faiths more inclusive.

We are very happy to announce the publication of Dr. Fauzia Husain's first book: The Stigma Matrix:  Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women, published by Stanford University Press. Details, excerpts, and reviews of the book are here:

Many congratulations Fauzia!