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 Professor Jim ConleyOC 232, Ext. 7822 Email Professor Conley has been at Trent since 1988. He is married, and has two sons. He grew up in Edmonton Alberta, and received his Honours BA in Sociology from the University of Alberta. After a year as an 'art technician' he spent a year at the University of Toronto, where he received his MA in Sociology (after a brief flirtation with Political Science). He then spent two years in a variety of manual jobs in Edmonton and lived for a year on an Indian reserve northeast of Edmonton, before embarking on his doctoral studies at Carleton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. His sociological interests lie mainly in the areas of social inequality, social movements, and automobility. His current research concerns the sociology of the automobile. In his spare time, he cycles and cross-country skis. From 1998 to 2007 he edited the Canadian Journal of Sociology Online http://www.cjsonline.ca. He is currently the English Book Review Co-editor for the Canadian Journal of Sociology http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/CJS/ Teaching Areas:Social inequality, sociology of education, social movements, sociology of the automobile. Research Interests:Protest, contention and social movements in Canada, rhetoric of claimsmaking, cultural meaning of automobility, and status relations in high schools. General Areas of Thesis Supervision:See research interests. |