Our faculty
Our faculty members are internationally recognized scholars actively shaping conversations about society, culture and social change.
Chair of the Department
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Mark K. Watson
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Indigenous Studies, Japan, Action-Oriented Research, Ordinary Ethics, Encounters, Somaesthetics, Histories of Anthropology
Full-time faculty
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Nayrouz Abu Hatoum
- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: visual anthropology; urban ethnography; visual art and politics; liberation; sovereignty; settler-colonialism; resistance; the everyday; Palestine; South West Asia; queer politics. -
Julie Soleil Archambault- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: anthropology; sub-Saharan Africa; health and wellbeing; materiality; kinship and intimacy; human-plant relations and gardening; new media; social transformation; wellness, fitness and the body; post-socialism. -
Kregg Hetherington- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography
Research areas: Environment and Infrastructure, Politics, Bureaucracy, Paraguay, Montreal, Water -
David Howes- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Anthropology of the Senses, Sensory Ethnography, Law and Society, Culture and Commerce, Art and Aesthetics -
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Mark K. Watson
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Indigenous Studies, Japan, Action-Oriented Research, Ordinary Ethics, Encounters, Somaesthetics, Histories of Anthropology
Part-time faculty
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Erik Chevrier
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Part-Time Instructor, Geography, Planning and Environment
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Salinda Hess
- Part-time Faculty, School of Community and Public Affairs
- Part-time Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
- À temps partiel, School of Community and Public Affairs
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Roger Maclean
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: GE3LS-G(Genomics), E3(Ethical,Environmental,Economic), L(Legal) & S(Social), Technology transfer, International development, Cultural competency training, Environment (bio-pesticides, bio controls) business, teaching & scenario gamification MR & VR.
Chair of the Department
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Mark K. Watson
- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Indigenous Studies, Japan, Action-Oriented Research, Ordinary Ethics, Encounters, Somaesthetics, Histories of Anthropology
Full-time faculty
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Beverley Best- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Critique of Political Economy, Marxist Theory, Cultural and Critical Theory -
Aaron Brauer
- Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Statistics, Quantitative Methods -
Valérie De Courville Nicol- Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: emotions, self and subjectivity, fear, insecurity, anxiety, desire, self-help, psychology, book reading, emotional-discourse theory and analysis -
Deniz Duruiz- Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: migration and refugees, ethnicity, race, and racialization, racial capitalism, work and labor, war and political violence, Turkey, Middle East -
Martin A. French- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Risk, Surveillance, Privacy and Social Justice -
Chris Hurl- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Labour Studies, Urban Governance, Political Economy, Social Movements -
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Marie-Pier Joly- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Mental Health; Social Determinants of Health; Migration and Integration; Quantitative Research Methods -
Sylvia Kairouz- Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Youth, Addictive Behaviours, Population Health -
Marc Lafrance- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Self, Body, Gender, Sexuality, Popular Media, Cultural Theory -
Katja Grötzner Neves- Professeure titulaire, Sociology and Anthropology
- Full Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Status: Tenured Professor since 2009Research areas: Transdisciplinary Research; Socio-environmental Sustainability; Biodiversity Conservation Governance; Decolonization -
Bart Simon- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
- Director
Research areas: Digital Culture, Science and Technology, Social Theory -
Amy Swiffen- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Socio-Legal Studies, Political and Legal Theory, Constitutional and Aboriginal Law, Criminalisation and Justice -
Matthew P Unger- Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Law and Society, Criminal Accusation, Social Theory, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Sound studies, Metal Studies, Extreme Metal, Religion and Modernity -
Jean-Philippe Warren- Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Quebec, Social Movements, Politics, Popular Culture
Part-time faculty
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Angela Ford-Rosenthal
- Part-time Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
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Alejandro Hernandez
- Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Emanuel Lowi
- Part-Time Faculty, School of Community and Public Affairs
- Part-Time Faculty, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Part-Time Faculty, History
- Part-Time Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
Research areas: Indigenous cultures and knowledges, issues in contemporary First Nations and Inuit life, contemporary Indigenous politics, Indigenous-Settler relations, Indigenous land rights and self-government, Indigenous resurgence and resistance, urban Indigenous lives, environmental activism, public affairs communication, journalistic media practices, investigative reporting, commentary and criticism, creati -
Penney Pasdermajian
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
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Francine Tremblay
- Teaching Faculty, Sociology and Anthropology
Status: PhDResearch areas: Marginalised/criminalised Populations Self and Identity. Symbolic Interaction. (Dissertation Title – From Prostitutes to Sex Workers: Transition and Transformation through Collective Action in a Québec Context). -
Anna Woodrow
- Part-time Instructor, Sociology and Anthropology
Status: PhDResearch areas: Identity, Humour, Reception Theory, Food and Culture, Environmental Ethics, Sustainable Health and Food Security