Faculty News and Events
Current
July 23rd, 2012 - We are delighted to announce the creation of the McGill University Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD). The CPD will bring together professors, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students from the fields of sociology, economics, and epidemiology, who are pursuing research on critical issues in the area of population dynamics relating to aging, migration, family structures, health, and employment.
Past
Prof. Elaine Weiner, in collaboration with several scholars in Canada, the UK and Europe, received an “International Partnership and Networking Scheme” Award (for 2012-2014) for their research program, “Understanding the Impact of Unintended Gender Consequence: Lessons from Europe” as part of a new initiative from the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom.
Prof. Eran Shor and Prof. Zoua Vang are featured in the Arts Insights Winter 2011 issue.
Prof. Amelie Quesnel-Vallée’s research on the socioeconomic pathways of mental health was featured in McGill’s Newsroom.
McGill’s Sociology Department is ranked 15 in the world among Sociology programs evaluated by QS Top Universities.
Prof. Céline Bourdais has been appointed as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) - The Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada. The RSC is a "Canadian institution devoted to recognizing excellence in learning and research, as well as recognizing accomplishments in the arts, humanities and sciences" (RSC, 2011). Visit the RSC website for more information.
Professor Zoua Vang’s immigration research was featured in Headway, McGill University’s magazine on research and innovation.
Prof. Kathleen Fallon’s ASR article “Democratization, Women's Movements, and Gender-Equitable States: A Framework for Comparison” is listed among the American Sociological Review’s Most Read Articles during October 2010!
On October 1st and 2nd (2010), Professor Weinfeld made two panel presentations at a conference on “Gender, Culture, and Religion” sponsored by the Sheldon Chumir Foundation on Ethics and Leadership, in Calgary and Lake Louise, Alberta.
Prof. Michael Smith. “What do recent trends in inequality suggest about the utility of categorical class analysis?” Presented to the Social Stratification Research Seminar, University of Utrecht, September, 2010.
Prof. Michael Smith. “Do we have an adequate explanation of the recent financial crisis?” Presented at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Social Economics, Philadelphia, June, 2010.
Prof. Michael Smith. “Gender and pay within the professoriate: A Canadian case study.” Presented to the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, May, 2010.
Prof. Michael Smith. “Gender and the earnings of faculty members: Evidence from a Canadian university, in comparative perspective.” Presented to the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University, March 2010.
Prof. Michael Smith. “Lies, damned lies, .... and the use of statistics in the social sciences.” Presented to the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Colloquium (ASH), Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, November 2009.
Prof. Michael Smith. “What do we know about the relative generosity of welfare states?” Presented to the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, October, 2009.
Graduate Student News and Events
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Past
McGill Anthropology & Sociology Film Initiative
Check out the link above to see what sociological and anthropological films were screened this past year.
Check back in the fall for a new schedule.
Graduate Student Claudia Masferrer received a $250 award for best presentation at the 5th Edition of the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) New Researchers Conference "Methodological Challenges: Balancing Research Questions and Available Data" held on Friday, November 12, 2010 at UCSR-INRS. Her presentation, "Modeling self-rated satisfaction or dissatisfying challenges defining a dependent varaible," tied for the first place honours.