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Maria Ahmed, CAnD3 Alumna, has published a chapter with SAGE Research Methods titled Telling a Data Story: How to Develop a Compelling Data-Driven Narrative. In an era defined by data saturation, her work underscores the growing importance of clarity, accessibility, and impact in communicating research findings.
In response to the growing alarmism around the so-called "demographic cliff," Clark and colleagues explain population projections and why most demographers are not panicking.
Congratulations to Orsola Torrisi, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and member of McGill’s Centre for Population Dynamics (CPD), on receiving the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award from the British Society for Population Studies.
The FRQSC has awarded Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor in McGill’s Department of Sociology , a research grant through their Research Support for New Academics competition.
The grant spans three years and will go towards Pike’s project “The Demographic Dividend and the Re-Economization of Population.”
Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.
Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.
Former Sociology graduate student Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang, who defended in 2024, has been awarded the Arts Insight Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Marriage Equality Canada.” The award was officially conferred at the Arts Faculty Council Meeting on May 20.
In a large faculty like Arts this is a major accomplishment and speaks to the rigorous and high-quality work of our students.
SOCI 395: Sociology of Law was honoured to welcome Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis as a guest lecturer this past Winter 2025 semester.
Justice Karakatsanis shared reflections on her career trajectory and spoke to the relationship between law and society.
Prof. Shelley Clark has co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post on the sharp decline in traditional married families in rural America.
Read the article here: In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’
Prof. Barry Eidlin has written an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail in response to Amazon's decision to close its Quebec operations.
Read the article here: Why the union hate, Amazon? What's really behind the closing of Quebec Operations.
In May 2023, Prof. Jennifer Elrick began her appointment as Chair in Multiculturalism at McGill University. The Chair, which is endowed with funds from the Government of Canada, was first established in 1995 as the Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies. Its purpose remains to support research on issues of diversity and multiculturalism.
Congratulations to PhD student in Sociology and Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellow at McGill University Gabriel Lévesque, who has been awarded the PSSM Best Student Paper award for 2023 in the Political Sociology and Social Movements cluster for his paper titled "Toxic Substance Regulations and the Structuration of Interdependent Policy Networks".
https://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/research-cluster-awards/
Congratulations to the following graduate students in the Sociology PhD program:
AwardsMichaela Michalopulos has been awarded the Vasileios Tsiolis Foundation Award from the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation.
In an article for Policy Options, Prof. Jennifer Elrick and Prof. Daniel Béland (political science) respond to Québec Premier François Legault’s recent call to distribute asylum-seekers across provinces. They look to the case of Germany as an example of how it could be done, what it would take, and the kinds of benefits and risks involved.
American Sociological Association, Human Rights Section, Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award 2022
American Sociological Association, Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention 2022
Eastern Sociological Society, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award 2022
Law and Society Association, Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Honorable Mention 2022
In a recent article in The Conversation, Prof. Jennifer Elrick discusses the nature of immigration targets as a migration management tool and how the power of big numbers can lead to anti-immigrant sentiments unless they are contextualized in public debates.