Dr. Andrew Woolford
Department Head
Professor
318C Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6058
Andrew.Woolford@umanitoba.ca
Faculty and staff
Department heads and chairs
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Dr. Mark Hudson
Associate Head and Undergraduate Chair
Associate Professor
308 Isbister
Phone: 204-272-1655
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Dr. Jason Edgerton
Graduate Chair
Professor
323 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8192
j.edgerton@umanitoba.ca
Administrative staff
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General office contact information
318 Isbister Building
183 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
Phone: 204-474-9260
Fax: 204-261-1216
sociology@umanitoba.ca
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Kyla Shead
Administrative Assistant
318B Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8495
Kyla.Shead@umanitoba.ca -
Margaret Currie
Graduate Program Assistant
320 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-9260
margaret.currie@umanitoba.ca -
Donna Alexiuk
Office Assistant
318 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-9260
donna.alexiuk@umanitoba.ca
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Kaitlyn Kuryk
Undergraduate Student Advisor
301C Isbister
Kaitlyn.Kuryk@umanitoba.ca
Academic faculty
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Dr. Daniel Albas
Professor
325 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-9389
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Dr. Joseph Asomah
Assistant Professor
303 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6446
Joseph.Asomah@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Charles Axelrod
Associate Professor
301-D Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8458
charles.axelrod@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Sonia Bookman
Associate Professor
334 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-7832
Sonia.Bookman@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. David Camfield
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Labour Studies
116 Isbister Building
Phone: 204-474-6160
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Frank Cormier
Instructor; Sociology/Criminology Research Practicum Coordinator
313 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6445
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Dr. Annette Desmarais
Professor
302 Isbister
Phone: 204-807-2659
annette.desmarais@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Jason Edgerton
Professor
323 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8192
j.edgerton@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Athena Engman
Instructor
306 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-9416
Athena.Engman@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Mara Fridell
Assistant Professor
311 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8150
fridellm@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Christopher J. Fries
Associate Professor
317 Isbister
Phone:204-474-7871
christopher.fries@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Laura Funk
Professor
307 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6678
laura.funk@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Mark Hudson
Professor; Global Political Economy Coordinator
308 Isbister
Phone: 204-272-1655 -
Karen Kampen
Instructor
308 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8903
karen.kampen@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Marie Laperrière
Assistant Professor
321 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6941
Marie.Laperriere@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Rick Linden
Professor
339-B Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8457
rick.linden@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Melanie Murchison
Instructor
301A Isbister
Phone: 204-474-9673
Melanie.Murchison@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Jeremy Patzer
Associate Professor
309 Isbister
Phone: 204-480-1039
jeremy.patzer@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Tracey Peter
Professor
208 Administration Building
tracey.peter@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Susan Prentice
Professor; Duff Roblin Professor of Government
329 Isbister
Phone:204-474-6726
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Dr. Lori Wilkinson
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Migration Futures, Tier 1
331 Isbister
Phone: 204-474-8491
Lori.Wilkinson@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Andrew Woolford
Professor
318C Isbister
Phone: 204-474-6058
andrew.woolford@umanitoba.ca
Sessional instructors
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Cheryl Albas
Associate Professor
247 St. Paul's College
Phone: 204-272-8274
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Md. Mahmudur Bhuiyan
301J Isbister
Md.Bhuiyan@umanitoba.ca -
David Bowman
David.Bowman@umanitoba.ca -
Noelle Dietrich
301B Isbister
Noelle.Dietrich@umanitoba.ca -
Raymond Foui
Ray.Foui@umanitoba.ca -
Emily Gerbrandt
Emily.Gerbrandt@umanitoba.ca -
Dennis Hiebert
Dennis.Hiebert@umanitoba.ca -
Kaitlyn Kuryk
301C Isbister
Kaitlyn.Kuryk@umanitoba.ca -
Wanda Nyx June
330 Isbister
Wanda.June@umanitoba.ca -
Erin Scott
301L Isbister
Erin.Scott@umanitoba.ca
Other academic faculty
Professor Emeritus
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Dr. Elizabeth Comack
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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Dr. Raymond F. Currie
Professor Emeritus
Raymond_Currie@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Gregg Olsen
Professor Emeritus
gregg.olsen@umanitoba.ca -
Dr. Alexander Segall
Professor Emeritus
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Dr. Russell Smandych
Professor Emeritus
russell.smandych@umanitoba.ca
Senior Scholars
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Karen Grant
Senior Scholar
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Rod Kueneman
Senior Scholar
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Dr. Jane Ursel
Senior Scholar
Jane.Ursel@umanitoba.ca
Graduate students
Masters' students
Sara Fehr
fehrs2@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: income inequality, basic income, gender inequality, social welfare policy, power and inequality, disability policy
Ophelia Gaisie (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Woolford)
ainooano@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: health, human rights, illegal mining, social inequality, qualitative methods, criminology, ecology, comparative studies
Thesis title: Intersection Between Ecological Destruction and Human Rights: Study of Illegal Mining Activities in Ghana
Chase Harms (Advisor: Dr. Gregg Olsen )
harmsc1@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: political sociology, sociology of religion, power and inequality, immigration and refugee studies
Denise Humphreys (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Woolford)
humphred@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: genocide
Thesis title: Addressing Settler Colonialism Within Genocide Education in North American Post-Secondary Institutions
Cornelia Kauenhowen (Advisor: Dr. Laura Funk)
cornelia.kauenhowen@umanitoba.ca
Research interests: ageism, the older university student and continuous human development over the life course, age-friendly universities, qualitative methods, autobiographical, and critical gerontology
Zhilin Lyu (Advisor: Dr. Lori Wilkinson)
lyuz1@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: sociology of education, migration studies, social stratification
Andrea McDougall
umfras12@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: barriers to social equality, social welfare policy, collective responsibility, housing and homelessness
Marjia Rahman (Advisor: Dr. Sonia Bookman)
rahma45@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: culture, consumer behaviour, media, brands
Mehraz Sarker (Advisor: Dr. Jason Edgerton)
sarkerm@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: immigration and refugee studies, power and inequality, education and community development, policy and implementation and mixed methods research
PhD students
Abdul-Bari Abdul-Karim (Advisor: Dr. Lori Wilkinson)
abdulkaa@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: labour market outcome of foreign trained professionals and international students, anti-racism and other forms of discrimination, quantitative and qualitative methods, immigration and refugee studies
Ley D. Fraser (Advisor: Dr. Tracey Peter)
lfraser@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: gender minorities, intersectionality, social inequality, mixed methods research
Thesis title: At the Identity Crossroads: Transgender Canadians and Intersectional Discrimination
Tiffany Hall (Advisor: Dr. Sonia Bookman)
umhallt@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: culture, consumption, hoarding behaviour, qualitative methods
Wanda Nyx June (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Woolford)
wanda.june@umanitoba.ca
Research interests: gender, ecology, genocide
Thesis: Social Death with Nature: A Comparative Analysis of the Cambodian and Canadian Settler Genocides and Life-Death Worldings
Kaitlyn Obedzinski Kuryk (Advisor: Dr. Christopher Fries)
obedzink@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: medicalization, home care, medical gaze, private/public care, family, family caregivers
Jihad K. Othman (Advisor: Dr. Lori Wilkinson)
othmanj@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: migration and refugee studies, race and ethnicity, national identity, gender, health, research methods, NGOs
Bora Salman (Advisor: Dr. Laura Funk)
salmanb@myumanitoba.ca
Research interests: sociology of health, health policy, genomics, biotechnology
Zoë St. Aubin (Advisor: Dr. Mark Hudson)
Research interests: sociology of consumption, environmental sociology, cultural sociology, labour class studies
Thesis title: Resource extraction labourers: The forgotten voice in ethical sustainable consumerism choirs
Janice Tilly (Advisor: Dr. Christopher Fries)
janice.tilly@umanitoba.ca
Research interests: qualitative research, military/Veteran health, civilian to military transition, military culture, health promotion from a salutogenesis perspective
Xiyuan Xia (Marvin) (Advisor: Dr. Andrew Woolford)
Research interests: ethnic conflicts, genocide