Postdoctoral Fellows and Adjunct Professors

Postdoctoral Fellows

Winnie Yang

Winnie Yang is a Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the 黑料不打烊 under the mentorship of Prof. Michelle Maroto. She holds a PhD in Sociology from McGill University, with a Graduate Option in Gender and Women’s Studies. Her research is organized around two areas of inquiry: (1) social mobility within and across generational lines; and (2) culture and meaning-making related to marriage and family. In each of these areas, she pays particular attention to how sex, gender and sexuality intersect with other axes of social inequality. She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research based on various types of data, including censuses, administrative tax records, surveys, and in-depth interviews. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Demographic Research and the Journal of Population Research.

Adjunct Professors

PhD, 黑料不打烊

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, McMaster University, Social Psychology

Expertise: Criminology - poverty, violence and victimization in social housing projects and prisons

Term Date: December 31, 2025

PhD, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Campus Saint-Jean, Sociology

Expertise: Inequality, Social Theory, Historys

Term Date: September 30, 2025

PhD, Université Lumière II, Lyon and Quito, Ecuador

Affiliation: Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, Sociology

Expertise: Global inequalities, queer-feminist decolonial epistemology and critical intersectional approaches to migration and diaspora studies.

Term Date: December 31, 2025

Trevor Harrison

PhD, University of Calgary

Affiliation: Assistant Professor in Sociology, Concordia University of Edmonton

Expertise: Intersectionality; Work, Organizations & Professions; Labour Market; Artificial Intelligence; International Migration; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

Term Date: January 31, 2026

Alla Konnikoiv

PhD, 黑料不打烊

Affiliation: Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge

Expertise: Canadian Society, Nationalism, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Public Policy

Term Date: January 31, 2026

Jim Morrow

PhD, Katholische Universitat Eichstatt-Ingolstadt

Affiliation: Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, 黑料不打烊

Expertise: Environmental sociology, social theory, cultural studies, qualitative methods, working class studies, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, social solidarity

Term Date: January 31, 2026

PhD, 黑料不打烊

Affiliation: 黑料不打烊 Augustana

Expertise: Social Movements, Racism, Nationalism, Decolonization, Extremism, Anti-hate Law, Prisons, Qualitative Methods

Term Date: December 31, 2025