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    • Peri Ballantyne
    • Kristy Buccieri
    • Momin Rahman
    • Deborah White
    • Naomi Nichols
    • Jim Cosgrave
    • Parvinder Hira-Friesen
    • Elizabeth Torrens
    • Mary Jean Hande
    • Eugena Kwon
    • Nadiya Ali
    • David Rapaport
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Faculty & Research

Click on each name to explore more about each faculty member.

 

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Peri Ballantyne

Chair of Sociology
Professor, Sociology
B.A., M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Otonabee College 224, ext. 7813, periballantyne@trentu.ca

 

Research interests: 

  • Sociology of health and the ‘social determinants of health’
  • Poverty, food security, work and employment  
  • Medicines access/use/outcomes;
  • Qualitative methods, including grounded theory, ethnography, institutional ethnography

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Kristy Buccieri

Associate Chair, Sociology
Criminology Coordinator
Associate Professor, Sociology

B.Soc.Sc. (Ottawa), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (York)

Otonabee College 226, ext. 6382, kristybuccieri@trentu.ca

Research interests: 

  • Homelessness
  • Health care
  • Public health
  • Policy
  • Service provision

Kristy Buccieri in the News

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Momin Rahman

Professor, Sociology
B.A., Ph.D. (Strathclyde)

Otonabee College 228, ext. 7812, mominrahman@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • LGBT identities and politics
  • Racialization and systemic racism
  • Postcolonialism
  • Islamophobia

Momin Rahman in the News

 

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Deborah White

Professor, Sociology
B.A. (Toronto Metropolitan University), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Carleton)

Otonabee College 231, ext. 7865, deborahwhite2@trentu.ca

1998 Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching

Research interests: 

  • The institutional responses to sexual violence, particularly medico-legal interventions and the role and nature of forensic evidence and experts in criminal justice systems
  • Science and technology studies (STS)
  • Critical research on technologies of rape and sexual assault, specifically anti-rape technologies.

 

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Naomi Nichols

Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community-Partnered  Social Justice
B.A. (Trent), B.Ed.(Queen's), M.A. & Ph.D. (York)

Otonabee College 232, ext. 7822, naominichols@trentu.ca

Research interests:

  • Social inequality; poverty; youth homelessness; youth justice; child welfare; education; "youth at risk"; youth mental health; higher education
  • Research impact and community-academic research collaborations

 

 

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Jim Cosgrave

Associate Professor, Sociology
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (York)

Durham Campus, DUR 174, ext. 5049, jimcosgrave@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Sociology of gambling; the state and legalized/expanded gambling markets
  • Sociology of money; financialization and culture
  • Mass mediation and Canadian cultural and national identity
  • Sociology of humour

 

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Parvinder Hira-Friesen

Assistant Professor, Sociology
BSc (University of Alberta), M.A. (University of Alberta), Ph.D. (University of Calgary)

Durham Campus, DUR 186, ext. 5051, parvinderhirafriesen@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Immigration
  • Labour
  • Social Justice

 

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Elizabeth Torrens

Assistant Professor, Sociology
B.A. (Western University), M.A. (Western University), Ph.D. (Western University)

Otonabee College 223, ext. 7822, elizabethtorrens@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Gender and sexuality
  • Bullying
  • Education
  • Social control and deviance
  • Program and policy evaluation  

 

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Mary Jean Hande

Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A. (University of Saskatchewan), M.A. (York University), Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
Otonabee College 230, mjhande@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Care policy, work, and politics
  • Aging, disability, and mad studies
  • Im/migrant and precarious work
  • Critical consciousness/social movement learning
  • Community-engaged research and learning
  • Critical theory and qualitative methods

 

 

Eugena Kwon

Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Western University)
Otonabee College 227, eugenakwon@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • International migration (e.g., post-migration integration and settlement experiences of immigrants and international students);
  • Sociology of work and occupations;
  • Gender and professions;
  • Population health and well-being

 

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Nadiya Nur Ali

Assistant Professor, Sociology

B.A. (University of Toronto), M.A. (Carleton University), Ph.D. (York University)
Durham Campus, DUR - A186, nadiyaali@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Black Studies
  • Race, Racism & Racialization
  • Critical Muslim Studies
  • Community-Engaged Research
     

David Rapaport ImageDavid Rapaport

Adjunct Professor, Sociology

B.A. (Concordia), PhD (Trent)
rapaport@trentu.ca

 

Research interests:

  • Labour
  • Unions in Canada
  • Collective Bargaining
  • The Politics of Technology
  • The Public Sector in Canada

Faculty & Research

  • Peri Ballantyne
  • Kristy Buccieri
  • Momin Rahman
  • Deborah White
  • Naomi Nichols
  • Jim Cosgrave
  • Parvinder Hira-Friesen
  • Elizabeth Torrens
  • Mary Jean Hande
  • Eugena Kwon
  • Nadiya Ali
  • David Rapaport

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