STS North Summer School

The Department of Sociology in collaboration with CIRST at UQAM and the Institute for Technoscience & Society at York is co-organizing the inaugural STS North Summer School. The Summer School will take place August 27-29 in Montreal, and is focused on the needs of early-career STS researchers situated in Canada.

PhD candidate Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra wins the 2024 Professor Frank Pearce Essay Prize

PhD candidate Daniela Zuzunaga Zegarra has won the 2024 Professor Frank Pearce Essay Prize, an award for graduate students who submit the best essay on the topic of radical critical theory and social justice.

Daniela’s paper, Racism in the Platformized Cultural Industries: Precarity, Visibility & Harassment, examines how racialized content creators experience racism multilaterally, which works to produce barriers that limit creators ability to materially gain, build meaningful narratives of belonging, and feel safe within these environments. 

Sociology Graduate Student Association Annual Conference

Date

Friday April 12, 2024
8:50 am - 5:15 pm

Location

Remembering Vincent Mosco

The Department of Sociology is remembering our friend and colleague Vincent Mosco, Professor in the Department in the 1980s and returning as a Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in 2003, and Emeritus Professor from 2011. He was a major international figure in the Sociology of Media and Communications, a prolific author, as well as a treasured colleague and mentor to many graduate students. A full list of his work can be found at