NEW Killam Professor and SSHRC Grants in Sociology

Five sociology faculty have received SSHRC research grants this year. And one of them, Professor Lisa Strohschein, is also winner of a Killam Annual Professorship. Congratulations to all! Click to see all 2019 recipients.

30 July 2019

Congratulations to Lisa Strohschein who was named Killam Annual Professor on June 25.

The award is granted to faculty members based on the quality of their scholarly activities such as teaching, research, publications, creative activities, presented papers, and supervision of graduate students.

Congratulations to the following 2019 recipients (announced July 17, 2019)

SSHRC Insight Grant

Robyn Lee - Commodifying Care: Markets in Human Milk

Rob Shields - From James Bay Hydroelectric Development to Eeyou Istchee: A 50-year Critical Technological Analysis of Community Response to Energy Export Infrastructure

Lisa Strohschein - The Changing Dynamics of Parenthood in Canada

Marta-Marika Urbanik - Searching for Justice: Understanding and Building Police Legitimacy in Toronto's Inner City

SSHRC Insight Development Grant


Jana Grekul - Women's Reintegration Post-Incarceration: A Gendered Approach to Release Planning and Transitional Programming

2019 SSHRC Recipients (announced earlier this year)

Sara Dorow - SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant - Mobile Work and Mental Health: The Challenges of Long-Distance Labour Commuting

Kevin Haggerty - SSHRC Insight Development Grant - Corrections in the Time of the Opioid Crisis

Temitope Oriola - SSHRC Insight Development Grant - Failure to Detonate: Gender and Inchoate Suicide Missions