Advance your Community-Engaged Research journey with us at the University of Toronto. Join our 4th session to explore sustaining and growing research relationships.  

Date: Apr. 24, 10:00am - 12:45am 
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Congratulations to Alexa Carson Alexa R Carson and Jillian Sunderland Jillian Sunderland, co-winners of the 2023-24 Outstanding Sociology Teaching Assistant Award! This award recognizes the vital contributions of graduate TAs to undergraduate student learning sociology.utoronto.ca/news/congratul…

‘What just happened?’ This The Globe and Mail article by Diane Peters clearly describes our research in Sociological Science on ambiguous incidents of potential gender discrimination. Institute for Gender and the Economy Jan Doering Rotman School U of T Sociology Economic Sociology & Political Economy

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Congratulations to PhD candidate Eduardo Cornelius (Eduardo Cornelius) on winning a Muriel D. Bissell International Travel Award in support of his dissertation, 'Lawyers and Penal Change: A Field Analysis of White-Collar Criminal Law Transformations in Brazil' sociology.utoronto.ca/news/eduardo-c…

Congratulations to Prof. Prentiss Dantzler Prentiss Dantzler on being named a 2024 U of T Black Research Network IGNITE grant recipient! Dr. Dantzler receives this grant in support of his interdisciplinary research developing the Black Canadian Health Research Database brn.utoronto.ca/announcing-the….

What happens when amateurs try to take on the work of professional fundraising organizations, as in the case of GoFundMe campaigns? PhD candidate Martin Lukk speaks to this question in a recent feature in The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Congratulations to Harmata Aboubakar (Harmata A.) on being named a 2024 SSHRC Storytellers Challenge finalist! She will present her story, “Contested Memories and Revised Myths” at the national Storytellers Showcase in May. youtube.com/watch?v=0hMFMM…

🗓️Save the date! Final tri-campus event is on April 11, 4-5:30pm at the downtown Sociology department. Join us for drinks, food, and an introduction to Prof. Paula England, our visiting speaker for the SD Clark Lecture. All are welcome! RSVP🔗sdclarklecture2024.eventbrite.ca #lecture

How do people manage ambiguous discrimination? Prof. Jan Doering (Jan Doering) argues that Muslim Quebecers draw on collectively held ‘discrimination narratives’ to navigate negative but ambiguous interactions. Read his new article in Social Problems: doi.org/10.1093/socpro….

Congratulations to PhD student Ikee Gibson on a new publication with Clayton Childress and Jaishree Nayyar in American Sociological Review! The authors explore the macro- and meso- level features of tokenism through a study of the Booker Prize for Fiction: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00….

Japanese society’s opinion on immigration is shifting, says Ito Peng (U of T Sociology), and the way information is shared can strongly affect policy support. Borders & Belonging S2 Ep7 dives into #Japan as a migration state. 🎧Listen on any podcast app: torontomu.ca/cerc-migration…

📣Join us at #UofT Department of Sociology! Seeking Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) 🏫 with a PhD in Sociology or Master’s degree with extensive teaching experience. Apply today! 🔗uoft.me/socjob #hiring #ApplyNow #hiring alert #professor #Sociology

Hi #UofT community,

Join us for our fourth graduate student workshop with Ori Gilboa on March 14th!

This event will be taking place at the Munk School.

Register using the link below:
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Congratulations to PhD candidate Roberta S. Pamplona on receiving a Muriel D. Bissell Award in support of her dissertation, “From Reckoning with Violence to Institutionalizing Rights”. Learn more about her research: sociology.utoronto.ca/news/roberta-s…

Looking forward to sharing our findings from our disability employment audit study Dr. Michelle Maroto at Syracuse University Maxwell School U of T Arts & Science @UofT DeansOffice_UTM Munk School U of T Sociology

'Disability-Based Employment Discrimination: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments'

Congratulations to PhD student Pelin Gül on winning a Muriel D. Bissell Award in support of her dissertation research examining how reconstruction following environmental disaster offers opportunities for collective action and social change sociology.utoronto.ca/news/pelin-g%C…

“Is Japan turning into a migration state?” Listen to Prof. Ito Peng on CERC Migration’s Borders & Belonging podcast to learn about changes to Japan’s immigration policy: torontomu.ca/cerc-migration…

New paper in Social Problems! I examine how individuals use narratives to resolve the ambiguity that often shrouds negative treatment (here: potential cases of Islamophobia). Race and Ethnicity CSA-SCS Community & Urban Sociology Section

Wondering what it looks like to ♻️ your published work into a Contexts Magazine feature?

Find Michelle Pannor Silver's 'The Retirement Paradox' in our Spring 2023 issue. Then follow the trail to her book! 👴👵

➡️contexts.org/blog/qa-silver/

U of T Sociology @UofT Amin Ghaziani…

I was interviewed about the relationship between anti-immigrant politics and gun culture in the US by Chip Brownlee of The Trace. I hope it inspires more research on this important topic! thetrace.org/2024/02/us-gun… U of T Sociology UTSC Sociology @UTSC #guns #Immigration #sociology