Members
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology
Research Interests: Homelessness; Social Exclusion; Marginalization.
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology
Research Interests: Crime Prevention; Policing and Police Oversight; Spatial Criminology; Community Safety.
Assistant Professor, Leadership
Research Interests:
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Health Research; Occupational Health and Safety; Work, Occupations and Professions.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
Research Interests:
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Women in Policing; Police Cultures; Gendered Violence; Security Networks; Families and Intimate Relations.
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and Criminology
Research Interests: Mental Health; Policing; De-escalation; Scenario-Based Training.
Associate Professor; Principal Investigator, Recounting Huronia: A Participatory Arts-Based Research Project (SSHRC Insight Development Grant)
Research Interests: Arts-Based Research Practice; Institutionalization and Institutional Histories; Critical Approaches to Public Health.
Adjunct Professor, Criminology
Research Interests: Evidence, Theory and Practice; Criminological Theory, State Violence; Police Involved Shootings; Ethnomethodology.
Full Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts
Research Interests: Life Writing; Especially Diaries and Autobiographies; Early Canadian Literature (Before 1920); Women’s Literature.
Associate Professor, Law and Society
Research Interests: Educational Experiences and Outcomes During Pandemic; Future Skills and Ensuring Educational Opportunity; Law and Inequality; Public Law / Law and Regulation.
Associate Professor, Communication and Cultural Studies
Research Interests: Culture and Conflict: Drone Technologies, Artificial Intelligence; Practices of Surveillance and Discourses of Public Safety; War Museums and Public Education; Conflict, Memory and Visual Culture.
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Research Interests: Mobilities and Race; Automobilities in Canada; Human Zoo Postcards.
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science (Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction) Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP)
Research Interests: Transitional Justice; Human Rights; and Political Violence Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries.
Associate Professor, Business Technology Management
Research Interests: Organizational Leadership; Leadership Development; Women in Leadership; Women in Management; Organizational Discourse.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Work
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health; Lgbtq+ Health Equity Issues; Learning Disabilities and Postsecondary Education; Social Inequalities, Social Policy and Social Movements.
Hadi Rasooli
Visiting Researcher
Research Interests: Psychiatry and Health
Assistant Professor, Criminology (CRIM)
Research Interests: Law and Justice; Poverty; Surveillance; Youth; Intersectionality; Feminist research methods.
Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Research Interests: Sociology; Anthropology; Political Science; Refugee Studies; Ethno-Racialization, Nationalism, Anti-immigration; Social Death & Citizenship; Migration Geopolitics; Culture, Communication, and Inner Speech.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Research Interests: Crime; Victims; and Social Inequalities.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Research Interests: School Crime and Violence; School Shootings; Sociology of Education
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Technology, Surveillance, Security, Policing, Intelligence, Governance /Governmentality
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Security; Resilience; Policing; Urban governance; Mega-Event Security, Emergencies & disasters; Public safety; Organized Crime.
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Research Interests: Religion and Social Welfare; Community-Based Research; International Social Work; Social Work Thought and Theory.
Associate Professor, Media & Cultural Studies Dept
Research Interests: Gangs, Illegal Drug Markets, and Racial and Ethnic Conflicts in Marginal Communities.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Legal authorities use of surveillance technologies, Public perceptions of surveillance in society, Evidence-based policing, Evidence-based crime policy, Experimental criminology
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Interests: Security; Policing; Terrorism; Fear of Crime; Mass Incarceration; Campus Police; Health Disparities.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Israel/Palestine; NGOs and human rights; violence; bureaucracy; witness-testimony and archives.
Adjunct Research Professor
Research Interests: Social Work with Communities; Democracy and Pedagogy; Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Hate; Community Building and Support Services for Victims and Survivors of Hate; Public Space, Urbanization and Social Work.
Professor, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Research Interests: Community-Engaged Research
Professor of Social Work
Research Interests: Health; Political Violence; Community and Historical Trauma; Parental Resilience and Family Well-Being; Place; Individual and Collective Resilience.
Scott Muir - McGill University
Assistant Professor
Natasha Martino - McMaster University
PhD Student, Department of Sociology
Antonia Levak - McMaster University
Instructional Resource Assistant
Danielle Thompson - University of Waterloo
Department of Sociology and Legal Studies
