Name: Sara Nuzhat Amin
Email Address: sara [dot] amin [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Sara Nuzhat Amin)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Sociology, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh
Program: PhD (expected November 2010)
Previous Degrees: BSc Mathematics, McGill University (2002); BA International Development Studies, McGill University (2002); MA Sociology, McGill University (2003)
Research Interests: citizenship; migrant workers and refugee issues; multiculturalism; race and ethnicity; social movements; political sociology; social statistics
Dissertation Title: Contesting Citizenzhip and Faith: Collective identity claims-making by Muslim organizations in the United States and Canada, 2000-2008
Link to CV: Sara Nuzhat Amin CV [.pdf]
Name: Sean Clouston
Email Address: sean [dot] clouston [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Sean Clouston)
Current Position: Post-doctoral Research Associate, IALSA/HALCyon Longitudinal Research Network, Centre on Aging, University of Victoria/Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London UK.
Program: PhD (graduated May 2011)
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology (Honours) and Mathematics with distinction, University of Victoria (2005); MA Sociology (emphasis social statistics), McGill University (2006)
Research Interests: Social inequalities in health; longitudinal methods; lifecourse research; population health; demography; family structure; mortality; social stratification; social statistics
Dissertation Title: Partnered for health: how health interacts with partnership, and how policy manages health inequality
Link to CV: Sean Clouston CV [.pdf]
Name: Andrew Dawson
Email Address: andrew [dot] dawson [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Andrew Dawson)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science and the Centre for International Studies, Université de Montréal
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Sociology, University of Calgary (2001); BComm Management, University of Calgary (2001); MA Sociology, McGill University (2005)
Research Interests: political sociology; international development; the rule of law/social control; comparative-historical sociology; ethnic and political violence
Dissertation Title: Political Violence, State Capacity and the Rule of Law in Post-Colonial Societies: A Comparison of Barbados and Jamaica
Link to CV: Andrew_Dawson CV [.pdf]
Name: Magali Girard
Email Address: magali [dot] girard [at] berkeley [dot] edu (Magali Girard)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California - Berkeley
Previous Degrees: BA Psychosociology of Communication, UQAM (1999); MSc Sociology, Université de Montréal (2002); PhD Sociology, McGill University (2010)
Research Interests: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Labour Market, Economic Sociology, Family, Demography, Quantitative Analysis
Dissertation Title: Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Foreign Credentials (Supervisor: Professor Michael Smith)
Link to CV: Magali_Girard CV [.pdf]
Name: Valerie Heintz-Martin
Email Address: heintz-martin [at] dji [dot] de
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Bamberg, Germany (2008- 2011); Senior researcher German Youth Institute DJI, Munich, Germany (since 2011)
Program: PhD (Sep. 2008)
Previous Degrees: BSc Sociology, Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich; MA Sociology. University of Bielefeld; PhD, McGill University
Research Interests: Stepfamilies, fertility, divorce, life course, quantitative methods: event history analyses
Dissertation Title: STEPFAMILIES IN CANADA: Numbers, characteristics, stability and childbearing
Link to CV: Valerie Heintz-Martin CV [.pdf]
Name: France-Pascale Ménard
Email Address: france-pascale [dot] menard [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (France-Pascale Menard)
Program: PhD
Previous Degrees: BA Economics, Université Laval (2002); MSc Economics, Université de Montréal (2004)
Research Interests: family change; population aging, conjugal and parental histories, intergenerational transfers, social and family networks, work and family balance
Dissertation Title: The effect of family transformations associated with the decline of family size and marital instability on family networks at retirement age
Link to CV: France Pascale CV [.pdf]
Name: Natalka Patsiurko
Email Address: natalia [dot] patsurko [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Natalka Patsiurko)
Current Position: Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at The Centre on European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES), University of Toronto; Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal
Program: PhD (Feb. 2009)
Previous Degrees: MA Sociology, Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic (1992); BA Economics and Mathematics, Lviv University, Ukraine (1991)
Research Interests: economic sociology, informal economy, migration to Europe, post-communist societies, nationalism
Dissertation Title: Circumventing the State: Illegal Labour Migration from Ukraine as a Strategy Within the Informal Economy
Link to CV: Natalka Patsiurko CV [.pdf]
Name: Susan Rogers
Email Address: susan [dot] rogers2 [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Susan Rogers)
Program: PhD 2011
Previous Degrees: BA, MA, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Research Interests: sociology of science; medical sociology; innovation studies; scientific regulation; scientific collaborations
Name: Annalisa Salonius
Email Address: asalonius [at] chemheritage [dot] org (Annalisa Salonius)
Current Position: Post-doctoral Cain Fellow, 2009-10, Chemical Heritage Foundation; FQRSC Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Program: PhD (Feb. 2008)
Previous Degrees: BSc Biochemistry, University of Toronto; MA Sociology, McGill University
Research Interests: social studies of science; work, occupations and organizations; higher education; life sciences; biomedical sciences; political economy of science; qualitative, historical and fieldwork methods
Dissertation Title: Working in the Lab: Social Organization of Research and Training in Biomedical Research Labs in Canada and its Relationship to Research Funding
Link to CV: Annalisa Salonius CV [.pdf]