SOCIABILITY

SOCIABILITY
Fall 2010
The University of Manitoba Department of Sociology Newsletter
Schedule of Events
Winter 2010/2011
Grad Orientation
Friday, September 10,
1:30 to 3:00pm, 335
Isbister Building. For
new and returning
graduate students.
Welcome Party
Friday, September 17,
3:30pm, 335 Isbister.
Following the
Department Council
meeting.
Missing Women/
Missing News: Covering
Crisis in Vancouver’s
Downtown Eastside talk
by David Hugill (York
U) Friday, September
24th at 2:30, 306 Tier
Building
SSHRC Application
Workshop
October. Exact time and
location TBA. A
workshop for
studentsintending to
apply for SSHRC
graduate fellowships.
The Thesis Process
Workshop
Friday, November 12,
1:30 pm. It’s never too
soon to start preparing
your thesis proposal.
Getting it Written
Workshop
February. Exact time and
location TBA. What
process do you use to
write? Is it the most
productive? Share your
experiences and learn
some tips for successful
writing.
HEAD NOTES
One feature that stands out over this past year has
been the UM‘s new Strategic Planning Framework.
As part of this framework, several key themes
have been identified to guide the university‘s
development over the next few years. Two themes
have particular relevance to the Sociology
Department: human rights and population health.
Sociology is well-positioned to contribute to UM
expertise in the area of human rights. We have a
longstanding commitment to addressing issues
relating to social inequality and social justice, and
many of our faculty members are actively engaged
in research programs devoted to human rights
issues, including genocide studies, environmental
justice, Aboriginal peoples and the law,
racialization and ethnic studies, interpersonal
violence, homophobia, and restorative justice.
(See our page on the Centre for Human Rights
Initiative website: http://chrr.info/human-rightsexpertise/sociology). With the momentum
growing around the development of the Canadian
Human Rights Museum, as well as the relocation
to the city of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, Winnipeg—and the U of M in
particular—are certainly optimal locations for
those of us engaged in human rights scholarship.
strength in Health Sociology will grow in the next
year, as we are advertising to hire a new colleague
who specializes in this area.
The past year was also marked by several researchrelated activities in the department. In January we
held another forum on Practicing Public Sociology in
which three of our colleagues—Mark Hudson,
Chris Powell, and Lance Roberts—presented
their work. (Videos of their presentations are
available on our website: http://umanitoba.ca/
faculties/arts/departments/sociology/links.html.)
In March a two-day workshop on Communicating
Social Science Research was run by Heather Juby,
Knowledge Transfer Officer of the Manitoba
Research Data Centre. Sociology partnered with
Family Social Sciences in April to host An
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Families, Communities,
and Societies where honours and graduate students
presented their work. The symposium was a
resounding success, and we‘re hoping to make it
an annual affair.
As the pages of this newsletter testify, we have
much to be proud of in our department. As in
previous years, our faculty and students have
produced significant work, and many have won
prestigious awards for their accomplishments. We
look forward to continued successes in that regard.
Our department is also well-positioned to
contribute to the population health theme of the
UM‘s Strategic Plan. We have a well-developed
teaching program in the field of Health Sociology,
offering a number of undergraduate and graduate
courses in the area: Sociology of Health and
Illness; Health Care Systems; Sociology of Mental
Disorder; Women, Health & Medicine; Issues in
Health Care. As well, several of our faculty
members have an established expertise in the fields
of women and health, mental health and well
being, alternative medicines, sociology of the body,
and the social determinants of health. Our
Elizabeth Comack
How to Contact Us:
Visit the Sociology Office, 318
Isbister Building, phone us at
204-474-9260 [toll free: 1-800432-1960 ext 9260, or visit our
website:
www.umanitoba.ca/sociology
CONTENTS
Head’s Message, p. 1
RH Award for Dr. Andrew
Woolford, p. 2
Dr. Stephen Brickey Retires,
p. 2
In Memoriam, p. 2
Meet the Graduate Students:
Amelia Curran, pp.3-4
Keeping Tabs on Our
Graduates, p. 4
Student
Accomplishments, pp.
4-5
Faculty Activities, pp.
5-11
Dr. Andrew Woolford
Receives the 2009 Rh
Award (Social Sciences)
The Rh Awards are given to academic
staff members who are in the early stages
of their careers and who display
exceptional innovation, leadership, and
promise in their respective fields.
Andrew Woolford was the recipient of
the 2009 Rh Award in the Social Sciences
category for his research in conflict
resolution and restorative justice.
Andrew‘s research program spans three
significant areas of sociological study:
First Nations governance, conflict
resolution, and genocide. His first book,
Between Justice and Certainty (2005),
examined the interplay between
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal visions of
justice and certainty in the 1990s, when
the British Columbia treaty process was
established to resolve the outstanding
land claims of First Nations in that
province. The book is the first critical
examination of this process and has been
regularly cited in the growing literature
on the subject. His second book, Informal
Reckonings (2008), focuses on informal
approaches to conflict resolution—
mediation, restorative justice, and
reparations—and their uneasy relation to
formal justice mechanisms with the aim
of identifying how a truly transformative
justice might be established. Woolford‘s
most recent book, The Politics of Restorative
Justice (2009), takes seriously the many
challenges to restorative justice practices
yet without disposing of this justice
alternative in its entirety.
In his work on genocide Andrew has
offered the first critical examination of
the fledgling Criminology of Genocide,
arguing that criminology must approach
the study of genocide with some caution
since exclusionary modes of
criminological thought have, in the past,
been complicit in the perpetuation of
genocide. His publications also address
the question of genocide and Aboriginal
peoples in Canada, correcting
unsophisticated understandings of
genocide as both a legal and sociological
concept and directing attention to
Eurocentric presuppositions buried
within the UN Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of Genocide. As well,
Andrew has written on post-genocide
reparations— including an article in Law
& Society Review—one of the top-rated
journals in his field. 
Dr. Stephen Brickey
Retires
Steve Brickey retired in June, 2010 after
some 36 years in the department. Noted
for his contributions to the Sociology of
Law, Steve co-edited (with William
Greenaway) one of the first Canadian
collections in the area, Law and Social
Control in Canada (1978). He went on to
co-edit (with Elizabeth Comack) two
editions of The Social Basis of Law (1986
and 1991). In addition to being one of
the mainstays of our Criminology
Program, Steve served terms as Graduate
Director,
Associate
Head,
and
Department Head. Steve‘s calm and
reasoned approach—and especially his
finely honed sense of humour and
infectious laugh—will be sorely missed
around the halls of the Isbister Building.
In Memoriam
Irwin Barker (1952-2010) lost his
battle with cancer on June 21, 2010.
Irwin completed his MA in Sociology
in our department in 1982, and also
taught for us on a part time basis in
the eighties. In 1992 he made comedy
his full-time career, gaining an
impressive resume as a standup
comic. In addition to performing at
comedy festivals (including Just for
Laughs), he appeared on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno and was a regular
on CBC Radio‘s The Debaters. Irwin
also worked as a writer for This Hour
Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer
Report. Earning the nickname ―the
Professor‖
for
his
scholarly
appearance, mentorship of other
comics, and his intelligent wit, Irwin
was a multiple nominee for the
Gemini Award and the Writers‘
Guild of Canada Award. The
Montreal Just for Laughs Festival has
named an award in his honour to be
given to rising young comedy stars.
Dr. Stuart Johnson (1925-2009)
passed away on December 21, 2009
with his son and friends at his
bedside. Stuart joined our department
in 1968, one year after Sociology was
established as a separate department.
He was instrumental in the
establishment of a Certificate
Program in Criminology (through
Continuing Education), which was a
first step toward the development of
the Criminology Major in the
Sociology Department. In addition to
publishing articles on police training,
violence against women, and the
incarceration of Native peoples, he
co-edited (with his colleague, G. N.
Ramu) one of the first Sociology
texts in Canada, Introduction to
Canadian Society: Sociological Analysis
(Macmillan, 1976).
Dr. Johnson
retired from his position at the
University of Manitoba in 1990. 
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Meet the Graduate
Students: An
Interview with
Amelia Curran
projects outside of my own research that
offered incredible opportunities to learn
first-hand about the work going on both
in the academic world and the
community. Working with both Dr.
Comack and Dr. Woolford made these
last years‘ really valuable for me.
Amelia Curran, one of our Master‘s
students, is set to begin a Ph.D. in
Sociology at Carleton University this fall.
She kindly agreed to an interview with
Russell Smandych, Sociability editor, to
discuss her experience as a grad student
at the U of Manitoba.
Q: What about the courses that you took and
how did they help you in attempting to achieve
the goals that you set for yourself in your
program?
Q: What was your experience like in the
Master’s program now that you are finished and
heading off to do your Ph.D. at Carleton
University?
A: I found the University of Manitoba an
excellent place to do my Master‘s degree.
I took a number of years off after my
undergraduate degree and U of M was
such a welcoming environment that it
made the transition back into academics
much easier than it may have been at a
larger university. I found it difficult at
first to readjust to a school environment
but everyone was really supportive and I
felt that I could ask anyone in the
department for help. Dr. Comack
especially seemed to go out of her way to
ensure that my experience here was
rewarding. It‘s a small department but
professors are doing such amazing work
that it‘s easy to find people who inspire
and guide you in whatever your goals are.
I got to be involved in a number of
A: I loved the course work I did, actually,
and it has led me into areas I was totally
unaware of before starting my degree. I
wasn‘t entirely sure what direction I
wanted to go in when I started my first
year so the course work helped direct
future goals for me. The qualitative
methods course that Dr. Kueneman
taught helped me prepare for the
research I would do for my thesis. Dr.
Olsen‘s course on social inequality was an
excellent foundation for understanding
various theories of inequality and I ended
up referencing things I learned in his
class in a number of projects I was
involved in. Dr. Powell‘s theory course is
something I would recommend for all
students because it really helped me grasp
some difficult aspects of sociological
theories. And Dr. Bookman‘s course on
consumer culture was a very new side of
sociology for me and has helped direct
my future interests as I plan for my Ph.D.
“It’s a small
department but
professors are doing
such amazing work that
it’s easy to find people
who inspire and guide
you in whatever your
goals are.”
Q: I am interested in learning more about how
you went about doing your M.A. research in the
department. What was your M.A. project about,
and how did you go about finding a faculty
advisor to work with?
A: My thesis ended up being developed
out of a SSHRC/CURA/MRA research
project I was involved in through Dr.
Comack, entitled ―Transforming InnerCity and Aboriginal Communities.‖ I
interviewed Youth Serving Agencies
regarding the difficulties youth face and
the difficulties agencies face in trying to
help this population. From that data I
wrote my thesis on the construction of
at-risk youth and how this construction
contributes to the way troubled youth are
governed. Since I was involved in the
project with Dr. Comack from the start,
she was naturally a perfect fit as my
advisor.
Q: How well do you think the M.A. program
at the U of M helped you prepare to go on to do
your Ph.D., and what is your advice to other
students who are applying to Ph.D. programs?
A: I think the M.A. program was good
for demonstrating the process of
researching and writing a larger
sociological project. It also helped me
prepare for other aspects of academia,
such as grant writing, doing conference
presentations and developing research
proposals, which I think were really
beneficial things to become more versed
in. For other students applying to do
their Ph.Ds I would say to start early and
budget way more time that you think is
even possible to spend on researching
and applying to schools. The amount of
time this process took really caught me
off guard. I also had the opportunity to
visit Carleton and meet with staff and
students and that really helped me decide
it was the right place to go. Websites are
not always great conveyors of the info
you‘re looking for.
Q: One of the things that make or break a
graduate student’s experience is the student
culture in the department and peer support.
What was your experience with these during your
years in the department as an undergraduate and
graduate student?
A: The first year was a little more difficult
in this aspect for me. Many people knew
each other from doing their undergrad
degrees here so there wasn‘t that
immediate sense of group camaraderie
for me that others had, but everyone was
friendly and pleasant. In my second year
I joined a cultural reading group and that
was, and continues to be, a really amazing
peer experience. I‘m really sad to leave
that group actually and can only hope
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that I find a group of people as awesome
as them in Ottawa.
Where are they
now? Keeping tabs
on our graduates
Q: Where do you see yourself going with your
future career as a sociologist?
A: It‘s a bit of a departure, but I would
like to focus more on cultural sociology
and resistance. Maybe cultural
criminology. What that entails specifically
I‘m not entirely sure yet, but that‘s the
general direction. I haven‘t taken many
courses in cultural sociology, but plan to
tailor my upcoming course work towards
this end.
Jamie Brownlee (MA ‘03) is
completing his PhD at Carleton
University. Jamie is featured in the
recently released video, Poor No More,
discussing the findings of his book,
Ruling Canada (Fernwood Publishing,
2005), which was based on his MA
thesis.
Q: Is there anything you would like to leave as
words of wisdom for students thinking of
graduate school or are already in the Master’s or
even the Ph.D. program?
Salena Brickey (MA ‘04) is the head
of a policy and research team in the
Public Health Agency of Canada‘s
Family Violence Prevention Unit. In
this role, she conducts consultations,
leads an interdepartmental federal
working group, and provides advice
and expertise on emerging policy
issues. Her current work focuses on
violence against Aboriginal women.
A: Well, I think that it‘s definitely not an
easy road, but you really can‘t let little
challenges get you down because there
are always going to be challenges that you
face; you know, like you either have to
Q: Is there anything you would like to leave as
words of wisdom for students thinking of
graduate school or are already in their master’s
or even the Ph.D. program?
Jodi Koffman (pre-MA ‘06, LLB ‘09)
has recently been called to the Bar
and is now a fulltime criminal
defense lawyer with Manitoba Legal
Aid.
A: Well one thing that I have trouble
with is managing rejection, but someone
recently told me that you have to think of
dealing with rejection as one of the skills
you need as an academic. Journal articles
may not be accepted, grants may not be
awarded, but you need to just take those
things in stride and keep going. I think
one thing that can help is finding work
you‘re really interested in doing so that
you don‘t mind spending long hours on
revising, but it might also be wise to do a
little research into what type of research
is getting grants these days. I‘ll try to take
this advice myself! 
Carly Liebrecht (MA ‘09) is a
member of the Winnipeg-based team
of the NRG Research Group, a
public affairs and market research
firm with offices in Vancouver,
Winnipeg, and Calgary.
Swati Mandal (MA‘09) is a Research
Assistant for Fisheries and Oceans
Canada where she assists in
developing policies and a guide book
as well as indicators and measures for
coastal and ocean management
purposes.
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Gosia Parada (MA ‘10) is an
Administrative Assistant with the
Manitoba Health Appeal Board,
where she is primarily responsible for
assisting the Board‘s administrator in
preparing correspondence and
arranging appeal hearings that the
quasi-judicial tribunal hears on a wide
range of medically-related appeals
from the public. 
Student
Accomplishments
RECENT AWARDS
Justine Brisebois was awarded the Dr.
Richard Douglas Oatway Memorial
Fellowship.
Amelia Curran was awarded the JosephArmand Bombardier Canada Graduate
Master‘s Scholarship from the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada.
Sheri Bell was the recipient of five
awards: the William and Nona Heaslip
Scholarship, the Lawrence and Margaret
Fund Bursary, the PEO Sisterhood
Bursary, the Percy Lanham Bursary, and
an UMSU Scholarship.
Evan Bowness was the recipient of a
United Way Youth Leaders in Action
scholarship for his work as a literacy
tutor for the John Howard Society; a
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Power of Words
Competition Award; a North Central
Sociological Association Paper
Competition Award; an UMSU
Scholarship; and an Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada
Higher Education Scholarship.
Jill Bucklaschuk was awarded a
Canadian Graduate PhD Scholarship
from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, a Manitoba
Graduate Scholarship, and the Sociology
Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship.
Valerie Hiebert, Mahmudur Bhuiyan,
and Joey Jakob were awarded
Conference Travel Awards.
Timothy Melnyk and Konstantin
Petoukhov were awarded University of
Manitoba Graduate Fellowships.
James Lyons was awarded a Faculty of
Arts Graduate Award.
Colleen Pawlychka was awarded the
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada
Graduate Master‘s Scholarship from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada and the Berdie and
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Irvin Cohen Award in Peace and Conflict
Studies.
Jackson Phiri was awarded the Senator
Thomas Alexander Crerar Scholarship.
Sharon Taylor, ―Heterosexism and How
it Affects Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual,
Transgender and Queer Homeless
Youth‖ (T. Peter, advisor) 
Faculty Activities
2009 BOOKS
Shauna Zinnick was awarded the Brian
Patrick O‘Connell Memorial Scholarship
in Sociology.
2009 M.A. THESES
2009-10 HONOURS & PREMASTERS THESES
Vanessa Ahing, ―Fair Trade: Who Has
Power?‖ (M. Hudson, advisor)
Evan Bowness, ―Public Participation in
Natural Resource Protection: A Critical
Comparison of Institutionalized Citizen
Power in Western Canadian
Jurisdictions‖ (M. Hudson, Advisor)
Paul Catteeuw, ―Top-Down or BottomUp: An Analysis of the SCPI in Winnipeg
and Vancouver‖ (S. Prentice, advisor)
Rachel Dolynchuck, ―‘Regime Change‘
in Canadian Midwifery: A CrossProvincial Investigation‖ (S. Prentice,
advisor)
Tracey Groenewegen, ―Environmental
Policy in Canada, the United States and
Sweden: A Qualitative Comparison‖ (R.
Kueneman, advisor)
Jennifer Dengate, “Religious
Commitment and Well-Being: The
Importance of Private Versus Public
Faith‖ (T. Peter, advisor)
Ryanne Harrison, ―Rwandan Genocide
and the International Media: A Twostage Analysis of Newspaper Coverage‖
(A. Woolford, advisor)
Swati Mandal, ―Settlement Intentions of
Post-secondary International Students in
Manitoba‖ (L. Wilkinson, advisor)
Kevin Stevenson, ―Ecological
Identification: Exploring the Motivations
of Ecological Behaviour‖ (R. Kueneman,
advisor)
P. Armstrong, M. Boscoe, B. Clow,
Karen Grant, M. Haworth-Brockman, B.
Jackson, A. Pederson, M. Seeley, and J.
Springer (editors). A Place to Call Home:
Women and Long-term Care in Canada.
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Jasmine Thomas, ―Immigrant Serving
Organizations and the School-to-work
Transitions of Newcomer Youth in
Winnipeg‖ (L. Wilkinson, advisor) 
Alyssa Hung, ―Sex, Power and Identity:
The Development of Same-Sex Adoptive
Rights in Canada‖ (C. Powell, advisor)
Luahati Marcelino, ―The Feminization
of Migrant Caregiving Labour in Canada:
A Comparative Analysis of the Barriers
and Vulnerabilities Faced by Vilipina
Nurses and Live-in Care-givers‖ (L.
Wilkinson, advisor)
Blake Minaker, ―Derockracy Now:
Democratization, New Media
Technology and Music in Manitoba‖ (S.
Bookman, advisor)
M. Friendly and Susan Prentice. About
Canada: Childcare. Halifax: Fernwood
Publishing.
Adam Scrutton, ―Locating the New
Zealand Welfare State‖ (G. Olsen,
advisor)
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2009 JOURNAL ARTICLES &
BOOK CHAPTERS
Cheryl Albas, Dan Albas and Lorne
Tepperman. ―Social Organization‖ in
Principles of Sociology: Canadian Perspective, L.
Tepperman and J. Curtis (eds.) Toronto:
Oxford University Press.
Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas. ―Behind
the Conceptual Scene of Student Life and
Exams‖ in Ethnographics Revisited:
Constructing Theory in the Field, A.
Puddephatt, W. Shaffir, S. Kleinknecht
(eds). London: Routledge.
Sonia Bookman. ―Consumer Culture,
City Space, and Urban Life‖ in Urban
Canada: Sociological Perspectives, H. Hiller
(ed). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Lance Roberts, Karen Kampen, and
Tracey Peter. The Methods Coach: Learning
Through Practice. Toronto: Oxford
University Press.
Leo Driedger. ―Terrorism: Dilemmas of
Capitalism, Monotheism,
Multiculturalism, Violence.‖ Forum on
Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round
Table, fall.
Christopher J. Fries. ―Bourdieu‘s
Reflexive Sociology as a Theoretical Basis
for Mixed Methods Research: An
Application to Complementary and
Alternative Medicine.‖ Journal of Mixed
Methods Research 3: 326-348.
Tracey Peter. ―Exploring Taboos:
Comparing Male- and FernalePerpetrated Child Sexual Abuse.‖ Journal
of Interpersonal Violence 24 (7): 1111-1128.
Andrew Woolford. The Politics of
Restorative Justice: A Critical Introduction.
Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Lance Roberts. ―How the School
Learning Index Improves Renewal
Investment Decisions‖ S.P.O.S.A. (Fall):
13-15.
Lance Roberts. ―Balancing School
Infrastructure Investments: Integrating
Property-Management and Educational
Missions.‖ Educational Business
Administrator (November): 26-30.
Terry Hutchinson, Gosia Parada and
Russell Smandych. ―‗Show me a bad
kid and I‘ll show you a lousy parent‘:
Making Parents Responsible for Youth
Crime in Australian and Canadian
Contexts.‖ Australasian Canadian Studies
26: 49-86.
Hébert, Yvonne, Mehrunnisa Ali, Lori
Wilkinson and Temitope Oriola. ―New
Modes of Becoming in Transcultural
Glocal Spaces: Second Generation Youth
in Calgary, Winnipeg and Toronto.‖
Canadian Ethnic Studies 40(3).
Lori Wilkinson and Alison Kalischuk,
―Recent Trends in Migration to ThirdTier Centres in the Prairies‖ Our Diverse
Cities 6: 18-25.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Approaching
Intersection: Individual Lives, Multiple
Inequalities‖ in Racism, Identity and Justice:
Dialogue on the Politics of Inequality and
Change. Sean Hier, Daniel Lett and B.
Singh Bolaria (eds). Halifax: Fernwood.
Chris Powell. ―The Wound at the Heart
of the World‖ in Evoking Genocide: Scholars
and Activists Describe the Works that Shaped
Their Lives. Adam Jones (ed). Toronto:
The Key Publishing House.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Are Human Rights
Jeopardized in 21st Century Canada? A
Sociological Examination of Immigration
Policies Post- 9/11‖ in Between Terrorism
and Human Rights, Sandra RollingsMagnuson (ed). Halifax: Fernwood Press.
Susan Prentice. ―High Stakes: The
‗Investable‘ Child and the Economic
Reframing of Childcare.‖ Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 34: 687-710.
K. Rogers and Jane Ursel. ―Public
Opinion of Mandatory Reporting of elder
Abuse and/or Neglect in Manitoba.‖
Journal of elder Abuse and/or Neglect, 21(2).
Susan Prentice. ―Old Dollars, New
Sense: Recent Evidence and Arguments
About Child Care Spending.‖ Our
Schools/Our Selves. (April), 237-244.
Andrew Woolford. ―Ontological
Destruction: Genocide and Aboriginal
Peoples in Canada.‖ Genocide Studies and
Prevention: An International Journal 4: 81-97.
Lance Roberts. ―Measuring School
Facility Conditions: An Illustration of the
Importance of Purpose.‖ Journal of
Educational Administration 47: 363-375.
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2009 RESEARCH REPORTS &
OTHER FORMS OF PUBLIC
SOCIOLOGY
Elizabeth Comack and J. Lyons. ―The
Social Impact of Bed Bugs.‖ Presentation
at the Bed Bug Symposium sponsored by
the Assiniboine Community College,
Marshall McLuhan Hall, University of
Manitoba, March 4.
Elizabeth Comack, L. Deane, L.
Morrissette, and J. Silver. 2009. ―If You
Want to Change Violence in the ‗Hood
You Have to Change the ‗Hood:
Violence and Street Gangs in Winnipeg‘s
Inner City. A Report Presented to
Honourable Dave Chomiak, Manitoba
Minister of Justice and Attorney General,
September 10.‖ Winnipeg: CCPA–MB.
Available at:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/offices
/manitoba
Elizabeth Comack, L. Deane, L.
Morrissette, and J. Silver. ―Change the
‗Hood.‖ Winnipeg Free Press 11 September
A13.
Elizabeth Comack. ―The Social Impact
of Bed Bugs: A Pressing Health Issue‖
Canadian Institute of Public Health
Inspectors Manitoba Branch 2009
Annual Education Conference, Clarion
Hotel, Winnipeg, October 1.
Elizabeth Comack. ―What Happens
When the Bed Bugs Do Bite? The Social
Impact of a Bed Bug Infestation on
Residents of Winnipeg‘s Inner-city
Communities.‖ Seminar Series of the
Department of Entomology, University
of Manitoba, October 6.
Elizabeth Comack. ―The Social
Impacts of Bed Bugs‖ presentation to
City of Winnipeg By-law Enforcement
Officers, November 3.
Elizabeth Comack, L. Deane, L.
Morrissette, and J. Silver. ―If you want to
change violence in the ‗hood, you have to
change the ‗hood.‖ Keynote address to
the Manitoba Criminal Justice
Association Crime Prevention Month
Breakfast, November 5.
Karen Grant has been involved in
producing four Knowledge Translation
Publications of Women and Health Care
Reform: Not Just Victims; Women in
Emergencies and Disasters; Women and
Private Health Insurance; Hidden Health
Care Work and Women (available at
www.womenandhealthcarereform.ca).
Tracey Peter, Goossen Randy, Susan
Chipperfield, Marion Cooper, and Diana
Clarke et al. Manitoba Adult Suicide
Mortality Review: Risk Factors
Associated with Mental Health and
Substance Use Disorders. Report for the
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
C. Taylor, Tracey Peter, K. Schachter, S.
Paquin, S. Beldom, Z. Gross and TL
McMinn. ―Youth Speak Up about
Homophobia and Transphobia: The First
National Climate Survey on
Homophobia in Canadian Schools Phase 1 Report." Toronto, ON: Egale
Canada Human Rights Trust.
Susan Prentice. Childcare in the Pembina
Valley: A Needs Analysis and Options Paper.
Winnipeg: Child Care Coalition of
Manitoba.
Susan Prentice. Tackling Children’s and
Women’s Poverty: Early Learning and Care
Services are Part of the Solution. Submission
to the Standing Committee on Human
Resources, Skills and Social Development
and the Status of Persons with
Disabilities, pursuant to the motion to
study the Federal Contribution to
Reducing Poverty in Canada. Winnipeg.
Susan Prentice. East Beats West: NonProfit Child Care Superior to Commercial
Sector – CCPA Fastfact. Winnipeg:
Canadian Centre for Policy AlternativesManitoba.
Susan Prentice. The Real Child Care
Challenge – CCPA Fastfact. Winnipeg:
Canadian Centre for Policy AlternativesManitoba.
Jane Ursel. Report to Manitoba Justice
on the Winnipeg Family Violence Court.
Jane Ursel. Interim Report, Max Bell
Foundation, Evaluation of the Front End
Project.
2009 CONFERENCE PAPERS
& PRESENTATIONS
Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas. ―Lessons
Learned: Behind the Conceptual Scene of
University Student Life and Exams.‖
Invited Presentation Symbolic
Interaction and Ethnographic Research:
26th Annual Qualitative Analysis
Conference, University of Waterloo,
April.
Sonia Bookman. ―Feeling
Cosmopolitan: Experiential Coffee
Brands and Urban Cosmopolitan
Sensibilities.‖ Paper presented at
Emotions Matter, Carleton University.
Sonia Bookman and Cheryl Martens.
―Globally Branded Social Responsibility:
Possibilities and Limitations.‖ Paper
presented at the British Sociological
Association Annual Conference, Cardiff.
E. Bowness and E. Comack. ―Playing
the Race Card? A Discourse Analysis of
Online Comments Concerning Policing
in Winnipeg.‖ Paper presented at the
Congress of Social Sciences and the
Humanities, Canadian Law and Society
Meetings, Ottawa, May.
Leo Driedger. ―Terrorism: Dilemmas of
Capitalism, Monotheism,
Multiculturalism, Violence.‖ Invited
paper read at the Oxford University
Round Table, April.
Leo Driedger. ―Marpeck in Winnipeg:
Engaged Economic, Political, Social,
Spiritual Anabaptists.‖ Invited paper read
at the ―Anabaptist Convictions after
Marpeck‖ conference, Bluffton
University, Ohio, June.
Leo Driedger. ―‘Where is Home?‘:
Reconstruction of Immigrant Oases.‖
Paper presented at the ―Strangers in New
Homelands‖ conference, University of
Manitoba Faculty of Social Work,
November.
Christopher J. Fries. ―Integrative
Medicine: A Global Health Community
or Neoliberal Rhizome?‖ Paper
presented to the Second Biennial
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Partnership Conference between the
University of Manitoba and the
University of Szeged, Communitas
Communitatum, University of Manitoba,
June.
Christopher J. Fries. ―Governing the
Health of the Hybrid Self: Integrative
Medicine, Neoliberalism, and the Shifting
Biopolitics of Subjectivity.‖ Paper
presented at Department of Sociology
Faculty Research Panel, University of
Manitoba, March.
P. Armstrong, M. Boscoe, B. Clow,
Karen Grant, M. Haworth-Brockman, B.
Jackson, A. Pederson, and M. Seeley,
―Speaking Truth to Power: Moving
Research on Women & Health Care
Reform into Policy and Practice.‖
Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: Using
Research to Improve Policy and Practice
in Women‘s Health, Halifax, March .
Karen Grant, P. Armstrong, M. Boscoe,
B. Clow, M. Haworth-Brockman, B.
Jackson, A. Pederson, and M. Seeley,
―New Directions on Research on
Women and Health Care Reform.‖ New
Directions in Research: Sex, Gender and
Health, Memorial University of
Newfoundland, St. John‘s, October.
Mark Hudson. ―Sparking Tinder in the
Rain: Obstacles to Fire Restoration in the
Pacific Northwest.‖ Paper presented at
the Pacific Sociological Association
conference, San Diego, April.
Mark Hudson. ―The Political Economy
of Wildland Fire: Timber Capital and the
Managerial Crises of the State.‖ Paper
presented at the International Studies
Association conference, New York,
February.
Gregg Olsen. ―Poverty and
Homelessness in the Anglo and Nordic
Nations.‖ Paper presented at Growing
Home: Housing and Homelessness in
Canada, Calgary, February.
Tracey Peter and C. Taylor. ―lnclusive
Safe-Schools Policy as a form of Mental
Health Promotion: The First National
Climate Survey on Homophobia in
Canadian Schools.‖ Paper presented at
the Canadian Association for Suicide
Prevention conference, Brandon, MB,
October.
Tracey Peter. ―Manitoba Suicide
Mortality Review: Risk Factors
Associated with Mental Health &
Substance Use Disorders.‖ Paper
presented at the Canadian Association
for Suicide Prevention conference,
Brandon, MB, October.
Tracey Peter. ―Manitoba Suicide
Mortality Review: Risk Factors
Associated with Mental Health &
Substance Use Disorders.‖ Paper
presented at the American Association of
Suicidology Conference, San Francisco,
California, April.
C. Taylor, Tracey Peter and K.
Schachter. ―Making the case for inclusive
safe schools policy: The first national
climate survey on homophobia in
Canadian schools.‖ Paper presented at
Queer Issues in the Study of Education
and Culture, Canadian Society for Studies
in Education. Congress of the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Carleton
University, Ottawa, May.
C. Taylor, Tracey Peter and S. Paquin.
―Youth Speak Up for Safer Schools: The
First National Climate Survey on
Homophobia in Canadian Schools."
PREVNet Life Without Bullying
Conference, Toronto, June.
C. Taylor and Tracey Peter. ―Findings
and next steps: The First National
Climate Survey on Homophobia in
Canadian Schools.‖ Paper presented at
Diversite Sexuelle et de Genre/Sexuality
and Gender Diversity, Colloque annuel
SVR, UQAM, Montreal, Quebec,
November.
Chris Powell. ―Critical Theory, Meet
Critical Theory: Getting Marxism and
Postmodernism Tangled Up in Each
Other‖, 44th Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Sociology Association, Carleton
University, May.
Chris Powell. ―The End of Justice?
Tactics of Justice in Tangled Systems‖,
Theorizing Justice: Interdisciplining the Divide,
University of Winnipeg, April.
Chris Powell. ―Post-Modernist
Historical Materialism‖, World History and
Historical Materialism, University of
Manitoba, March.
C. Bonnycastle and Susan Prentice.
―Aboriginal Students and Post-secondary
education in northern Manitoba.‖ Paper
presented at ―Awakening the Spirit:
Moving Forward in Child Welfare: 5th
Bi-Annual Conference of the Prairie
Child Welfare Consortium.‖ Winnipeg,
October.
N. Hunter, J. Sorensen, Susan Prentice,
Lori Wilkinson, and J. Thomas. ―An
Initial Assessment of Classroom
Response Systems in Chemistry Courses
at the University of Manitoba.‖ Canadian
Society of Chemistry, Hamilton, May, C.
Bonnycastle and Susan Prentice.
―Barriers to Post-Secondary Education:
Listening to Northern Students.‖ Paper
presented at Canadian Association of
Social Work Annual Conference, Ottawa,
May.
Susan Prentice. ―Missing Links:
Childcare and Economic/Community
Development.‖ Canadian Community
Economic Development Network
National Conference, Winnipeg, June.
Susan Prentice. ―Childcare Now.‖
Paper presented at the Childcare
Governance and Financing Think Tank,
Portage, Manitoba, January.
Lance Roberts. ―School Resources and
the Academic Achievement of Canadian
Students‖ (with R.A. Clifton and Y. Wei).
Annual Conference of the
Canadian Society for the Study of
Education, Ottawa, May.
Lance Roberts. ―Using P.A.S.S. to
Determine Mission-Relevant School Renewal.‖
Educational Research and Development
Institute Conference. Kelowna, B.C.,
October.
Alexander Segall. ―Maintaining a Healthy
Self-Identity: Monitoring Stability and
Change in Self-Rated Health Over Time.‖
Research Seminar Series, Centre on Aging,
University of Manitoba, March.
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D. Bailis, J. Chipperfield and Alexander
Segall. ―From Goal Pursuits to Personal
Resources for Healthy Aging:
Relationships between Autonomy and
Health Locus of Control.‖ Paper presented
at a Symposium on Aging and Health: A
Resources Perspective, Gerontological
Society of America Meetings, Atlanta,
Georgia, November.
presented at PMC Winnipeg Node
Conference, September.
Russell Smandych. ―Law and Empire:
Reflections on Recent Historiography.‖
Paper presented at Annual Meetings of
the Canadian Law and Society
Association, Ottawa, May.
J. Anchan, E. Blum, Lori Wilkinson, J.
Cabigting Fernandes and B.-H. Kim. ―A
Snapshot of the Health and Wellbeing of
Immigrant and Refugee Children and
Youth in the Prairies.‖ Paper presented at
PMC/Manitoba Labour and Immigration
Brown Bag Lunch, Citizenship Court,
Winnipeg, May.
C. Hochbaum, S. Lauer and Lori
Wilkinson. ―Experiences of
Employment and Joblessness among
Immigrant Youth in Canada.‖ Paper
presented at 14th International Metropolis
Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Belonging in the Inner
City: An Examination of Space, Place
and Youth.‖ Paper presented at the
Association of Canadian Studies Annual
Conference, Moncton, New Brunswick,
November.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Generation Status and
Racialization Influences on the Ethnic
Identity formation of Canadian Youth.‖
Paper presented at the Strangers in New
Homelands Conference, Faculty of Social
Work, University of Manitoba,
November.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Educational Pathways
of Immigrant Youth: An Examination of
LSIC.‖ Paper presented at the 11th
National Metropolis Conference,
University of Calgary, March.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Charting the
Educational Trajectories of Immigrant
Youth in Canada.‖ Paper presented at the
11th National Metropolis Conference,
University of Calgary, March.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Best Practices for
Survey Research‖ invited for presentation
at the Urban Exchange Board of
Governors, United Way of Winnipeg.
J. Anchan, E. Blum, Lori Wilkinson, J.
Cabigting Fernandes and B.-H. Kim.
―Health and Social Integration of
Newcomer Youth: Results from a
National Study.‖ Paper presented at PMC
Winnipeg Node Conference, September.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Ethics in Research
Practices.‖ Paper presented at United
Way of Winnipeg Lunch and Learn
Series, Winnipeg, February.
Jane Ursel. ―Domestic Assaults and
Domestic Homicides: Data from the
Winnipeg Family Violence Court.‖
Canadian Conference on the Prevention
of Domestic Homicides, London, ON.,
June.
Andrew Woolford. ―Recognition,
Redistribution, Representation, and
Restorative Justice.‖ Paper presented at
conference on Theorizing Justice. University
of Winnipeg, April.
2009 AWARDS
Karen Grant, Karen Kampen, MaryAnne Kandrack, Rick Linden, Tracey
Peter, Susan Prentice, G.N. Ramu,
Lance Roberts, Alex Segall, Lori
Wilkinson and Jane Ursel each received
a Faculty of Arts Outstanding Achievement
Award for 2009.
Lance Roberts has been appointed a
Collaborative Scholar at the national
Center for the 21st Century Schoolhouse,
Sand Diego State University, California,
in recognition of the international
reputation he has garnered for his work
in the area of public school renewal.
Russell Smandych has been appointed
to a 3-year term as honorary Adjunct
Professor of Criminology, Department of
Justice Studies, Mount Royal University,
Calgary, Alberta.
Jane Ursel. ―An Overview of the
Winnipeg Family Violence Court.‖
Symposium on the Intersection o Family
Law and Specialized Family Violence
Courts, Justice Canada, Ottawa,
February.
Lori Wilkinson was appointed as Chair
of the Economic and Labour Market
Domain for the Prairie Metropolis
Centre, part of the larger National
Metropolis Network. She will hold this
Chair for the next two years.
Jane Ursel. ―The Impact of Ethnicity on
Service Utilization findings from the
Healing Journey Study.‖ RESOLVE
Research Day, Regina, November.
Jane Ursel. ―The Winnipeg Family
Violence Court: Lessons Learned and
Ongoing Challenges.‖ 32nd Canadian
Congress on Criminal Justice, Halifax,
October.
Andrew Woolford was awarded the
UM/UMFA Merit Award for Research.
Andrew Woolford and Jasmine Thomas
―Social Regulation and the Manitoba
NDP: Social Democracy, Neoliberalism,
and Inner-City Winnipeg.‖ Paper
presented at the Congress of Social
Sciences and the Humanities, Canadian
Law and Society Meetings, Ottawa, May.
Lori Wilkinson. ―Migration and Social
Capital Factors in the School-to-Work
Transitions of Immigrant Youth.‖ Paper
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2009 RESEARCH GRANTS
Rick Linden received continuing
AUTO21 funding of $40,500 and
provincial funding of $7,363 for his
research on auto theft.
Alexander Segall is one of 135 CoInvestigators across Canada involved in a
multi-centre, longitudinal research program
entitled the Canadian Longitudinal Study
of Aging (CLSA), 2009-2014, Canadian
Institute of Health Research, $23,500,000.
Lori Wilkinson (PI), John Anchan
(Learning, Research and Technology
University of Winnipeg), and Esther
Blum (ret. Social Work University of
Manitoba). Protective and Risk Factors
Influencing Victimization from Bullying among
Immigrant Youth in the Prairies.
Immigration and Multiculturalism
Division, Manitoba Labour and
Immigration. Grant: $6,210.
Lori Wilkinson (PI), Miu Yan (Social
Work University of British Columbia),
Sean Lauer (Sociology, University of
British Columbia), Rick Sin (Social Work
Mc Master University) and Ka Tat Tsang
(Social Work, University of Toronto). The
Labour Market Transitions of Newly Arrived
Immigrant Youth: A Tri-Provincial Study.
SSHRC/Metropolis Operating Grant
$122,588 (June 2008-March 2010).
Jane Ursel has received new funding for
a number of research projects including:
PAF CARE Grant – the Healing Journey
$7,500; Max Bell – $192,780 The Front
End Project – Winnipeg Family Violence
Court; Manitoba Dept. of Justice $20,000 – Winnipeg Family Violence
Court; PAF Care Grant – $7,000
Evaluation of the Winnipeg Children‘s
Access Agency; SSHRC Standard Grant
– $225,347 Mothering in the Context of
Domestic Violence; SSHRC Standard
Research Grant - $97,000- Cost analysis
component of Healing Journey Study.
2009 BOOK REVIEWS
Ian Hudson and Mark Hudson.
―Dissecting the Boom: Is Fair Trade
Growing Out of Its Roots?‖ (Review
Essay on Fridell, G. (2007) Fair Trade
Coffee: The prospects and pitfalls of marketdriven social justice; Jaffee, D (2007) Brewing
Justice: Fair trade coffee, sustainability, and
survival; and Raynolds, L., D. Murray, and
J. Wilkinson (2007) Fair Trade: The
challenges of transforming globalization) in
Historical Materialism 17: 237–252.
Susan Prentice. ―Review of W.
Robbins, M. Luxton, M. Eichler, and F.
Descarries, Eds. (2008) Minds of Our Own:
Investing Feminist Scholarship and Women's
Studies in Canada and Quebec, 1966 - 1976.‖
Herizon's 23(2), 42.
Susan Prentice. ―Review of S. Cowan,
F. Tinwei Lam, and C. Stonehouse,
Eds.(2008) Double Lives: Writing and
Motherhood.‖ Herizon's, 23(2), 41.
Andrew Woolford. ―Review of John
Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond,
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide.‖ Canadian
Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Andrew Woolford. ―Review of
Christopher W. Mullins and Dawn L.
Rothe, Blood, Power, and Bedlam: Violations
of International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial
Africa.‖ Canadian Journal of Criminology and
Criminal Justice.
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NEW BOOKS FOR 2010
Lance Roberts, Karen Kampen, and
Tracey Peter. The Statistics Coach:
Learning Through Practice. Toronto: Oxford
University Press.
―The Statistics Coach is a comprehensive
supplementary text intended to help
students understand key statistical
concepts and principles through guided
application. Based on a three-part
‗coaching‘ model, students are guided
through twelve labs designed to optimize
their ability to apply and practice the
theories and techniques involved in using
statistics as part of sociological research.
The Statistics Coach is the essential
supplementary text for any introductory
social statistics course.‖
Rick Linden, Jane Murray and Diana
Kendall. Sociology In Our Times (5th edition)
Toronto: Nelson.
Gregg Olsen. Power & Inequality: A
Comparative Introduction. Toronto: Oxford
University Press.
―Sociology in Our Times highlights the
relevance of sociology by including a
diverse collection of theories, research,
and ‗lived experiences‘ that accurately
mirror the diversity in society itself. This
market-leading text is noted for its lively
writing style and strong integration of
engaging ‗Lived Experiences‘ (extended
examples that focus on various issues to
illustrate chapter coverage). These
examples are introduced with the vignette
that opens each chapter and are then
carried throughout the chapter in various
boxes, features, and exercises. This book
is acclaimed for being the first textbook
to integrate race, class, and gender issues,
and for its thorough presentation of
sociological theory, which includes
diverse theoretical viewpoints such as
feminist and postmodernist theory.‖
―In this thought-provoking new book,
distinguished sociologist Gregg M. Olsen
examines the causes and consequences of
social inequality through a comparative
lens. By juxtaposing three Nordic
lands—Finland, Norway, and Sweden—
with three Anglo countries—Canada, the
UK, and the US—Olsen provides new
insights into the complex relationship
between power and inequality in modern
societies.‖
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