Prof. Phyllis Johnson’s project to be on board next International Space Station this fall
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has selected Prof. Phyllis Johnson’s project as one of four new science experiments to be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS), beginning in the fall 2015. The four studies were picked for their relevance to medical and health issues stemming from space travel (the CSA‘s top priority for ISS […]
Grad Student Cary Wu publishes in The American Sociologist
Grad Student Cary Wu recently published “Moving from Urban Sociology to the Sociology of the City” in The American Sociologist: [View article.]
Prof. Nathan Lauster in The Tyee on Heritage Districting in Vancouver
Discussing Vancouver’s plans to preserve heritage while densifying and opening up an historically exclusive neighbourhood
Prof. Amy Hanser on Racism vs. Xenophobia – where’s the line?
Article by Lauren Sundstrom, in the Vancity Buzz. On Sunday evening, Vancity Buzz published a piece that described a message written on the back of a truck as “racist.” The message read: “Say no to China crap…. [View full article.]
Prof. Amy Hanser and Food Trucks, article in THE UBYSSEY
“Students study food trucks in the Sociology of Food” by Paula Duhatschek. Walking in downtown Vancouver it sometimes feels like you can’t turn a corner without hitting an artisanal food truck. The City of Vancouver reported that, as of April 2013 we have over 100 street food vendors “providing nutritious and ethnically diverse food in […]
Phd Candidate Zachary Hyde wins ASA award for Best Student Paper
From the Consumers & Consumption Section for his paper on “Omnivorous Gentrification: Restaurant Reviews and Neighborhood Change in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver” published in City & Community. See write-up here (p. 3)
PhD Student Heather Holroyd co-authors paper on Bathing in Residential Care
See the paper in the journal “Quality in Ageing and Older Adults.”
Prof. Gerry Veenstra’s work links musical taste with social class & gains wide media exposure
Prof. Veenstra’s work, “Class Position and Musical Tastes: A Sing off…,” published in the Canadian Review of Sociology (ed. Rima Wilkes), has been picked up internationally by numerous media outlets, including: 1. Vancouver Sun 2. CBC 3. Yahoo! 4. Georgia Straight 5. Van City Buzz 6. The Daily Mail 7. Zee News 8. Economic Times […]
Prof. Wendy Roth wins book prize for ‘Race Migrations’
Prof. Wendy Roth has won the Isis Duarte Prize in Dominican, Haitian, or Dominican-Haitian Transnational Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section, for her book Race Migrations: Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race, published by Stanford University Press. Available at http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16798
Grad Student Seonok Lee selected as research associate at the UofT Centre for Social Policy
Graduate Student Seonok Lee has been selected as a research associate for “Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care Doctoral Associate Program” at the Center for Social Policy (University of Toronto). She will receive funds for an academic journal publication and dissertation writing (from June 1, 2015), and will present her research in a conference in 2015 […]