SOCIABILITY The University of Manitoba Department of Sociology Newsletter 2007

SOCIABILITY
Fall 2008
Schedule of Events
Winter 2008/2009
Strategic Planning
Wednesday, September
3rd, noon-4pm,
Chancellor’s House.
Grad Orientation
Friday, September 5th, 13pm, 335 Isbister
Building. For new and
returning graduate
students.
Welcome Party
Friday, September 19,
3pm, 335 Isbister.
SSHRC Application
Workshop
October. Exact time and
location TBA. A
workshop for students.
Thesis Proposal
Workshop
November. Exact time
and location TBA. It’s
never too soon to start
preparing your thesis
proposal.
Publishing Workshop
February. Exact time and
location TBA. Learn the
secrets of scholarly
publishing from
researchers and
publishers.
New for 2008!
Elizabeth Comack’s Out
There/In There:
Masculinity, Violence,
and Prisoning
(Fernwoood Publishing)
The University of Manitoba Department of Sociology
Newsletter 2007
HEAD NOTES
This past year marked the end of an era for our
department, as Steve Brickey completed his five
year term as our esteemed Head on December 31,
2007. Steve did an admirable job of managing all
the details that are involved in running a large
department such as ours. Having taken on the
position this past January, my own appreciation
for the work that Steve did has grown in leaps and
bounds. The year marked the end of an era in
another important respect, as two of our long
serving faculty members—G.N. Ramu and Alex
Segall—retired as of July 2008. Fortunately, both
will maintain a presence in the department as they
continue to work on their research programs.
Social Work)—were impressed with the
productivity of our faculty and the energy and
excitement that our students bring to their studies.
Their report provided us
with suggestions for
improving
our
recruitment practices and
facilitating
students’
progress through the
program. In addition to
implementing several of
these recommendations, the department has
initiated a strategic planning process that will focus
on, among other things, strengthening our main
substantive areas.
The year was also a time for changes in our
support staff. Sandy Froese—who had been with
the university for 33 years—retired in May. Jill
Latschislaw took over her position until
September when she was drawn away to a position
at the Asper Business School. We are especially
pleased that Dianne Bulback is now our
Administrative Assistant. Dianne had been
working at RESOLVE, and before that was an
Office Assistant in Sociology—so we’re glad to
have her back. Laura Tryhuk also left but we
were lucky to gain Donna Alexiuk as our Office
Assistant.
As is evident from the information contained in
this newsletter our faculty and students have had a
very productive year. In addition to their teaching
responsibilities, Sociology faculty members have
been involved in a variety of research projects, and
active in publishing and presenting their work at
conferences. Several have been successful in
securing large grants to support their research
programs. Our honours and graduate students
have been busy too, not only in terms of making
progress on their thesis and dissertation projects,
but also in presenting their work at conferences
and securing the funding that will enable them to
further their academic careers.
The department also underwent a graduate
program review this past year. Russell Smandych
(Graduate Chair) and Margaret Currie (Graduate
Program Assistant) did the lion’s share of the work
in preparing for the review. The external
examiners—Vic Satzewich (McMaster), Bill
Carroll (Victoria), and Brad MacKenzie (UM
There are more changes in the offing for 2008. An
undergraduate program review is currently
underway, and we will be advertising for three new
faculty positions. Without a doubt, the
Department of Sociology at the UM is a great
place to be.
Elizabeth Comack
CONTENTS
• Head’s Message p. 1
• Meet the Graduate
Students: Jeremy Patzer.
p.2
• Professor of the Year,
Lori Wilkinson, p.3.
• Graduate Student Awards
and Theses, p. 3
• Honours and PreMasters Theses, pp.
3-4
• Faculty Activities,
pp. 4-7
Meet the Graduate
Students: An Interview
with Jeremy Patzer
personal circumstances. The support
and the flexibility from which I
benefited during both my PreMasters and Masters coursework
was an integral element to my
success.
Jeremy is nearing completion of his
MA thesis and begins his PhD studies
at Carleton in September of 2008. He
kindly took the time to answer a few
pre-defense questions
Q: Describe your MA thesis project?
A: My thesis is an analysis of the role
of the Canadian judiciary in terms of
its symbolic power in the
determination of Aboriginal hunting
rights, especially those accorded to
the Métis through the 2003 Supreme
Court of Canada decision in R. v.
Powley. This encompasses both the
misrecognition of the role that the
judiciary plays in such disputes
between the state and Aboriginal
groups, and the knowledge that the
judiciary produces and deploys
surrounding these issues. The very
process of legal determination of
Aboriginal rights can be seen as a
symbolic mask that obfuscates the
original and continuing violence of
colonization and dispossession, while
simultaneously
disguising
the
arbitrary foundations for judicial
power itself. Integral to the judiciary’s
recent work concerning Aboriginal
rights and title is the imposition of an
essentialist narrative on the history of
Aboriginal rights, as well as of a
juridical discourse of Aboriginality
that restricts Aboriginal rights
claimants to the colonial gaze’s exotic
image of a traditional and authentic
Aboriginal Other.
funding scheme from Carleton
University. My plan has been to take
advantage of my PhD studies to
broaden my research to an
international comparative study of
rights disputes between indigenous
peoples and the state. Alternatively, I
have been trying to develop and
articulate an idea for a dissertation
that does not necessarily limit its
study to indigenous peoples, but
rather looks at multiple oppressed
groups who live in the shadow of the
state and who are sufficiently
marginalized so as to have a glimpse
of the arbitrary foundations of state
power and “statist thinking.” Many
indigenous groups, of course, are
likely to fall into this category.
Q: You've received major funding to support
your PhD studies. Which awards/funding
did you receive? What are your plans for
your course of study?
A: I have been awarded the JosephArmand Bombardier CGS Doctoral
Scholarship from the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of
Canada, in addition to a generous
Q: Now that you've reached the end of your
MA, how would you describe your
experiences of graduate study in the
Department of Sociology at the University of
Manitoba?
A: I have genuinely said to people in
the past that the Department of
Sociology has afforded me what I
would call the ideal MA experience
despite sometimes less than ideal
“I have genuinely said to
people in the past that the
Department of Sociology has
afforded me what I would
call the ideal MA experience
despite sometimes less than
ideal personal
circumstances.”
Q: What advice do you have for graduate
students entering the MA program at the
University of Manitoba?
A: Get to know the faculty and make
a point of seeking help and advice.
Benefit from exposure to their
interests, expertise, and experience,
and allow this to help develop your
own interests. If the idea you have
for a thesis coming into the
programme changes or evolves by the
time you arrive at your thesis year,
don’t worry, this is a good thing: it is
a sign that you have been
intellectually stimulated!
Lastly, don’t be afraid to engage the
big ontological questions that
underlie—in sometimes hidden or
subtle ways—sociological research.
Doing so will help remove an
element of the arbitrary from your
choice of research path, and will give
you more conviction in the work that
you do.
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Professor of the Year:
Lori Wilkinson
Our congratulations go to Lori
Wilkinson who is the 2007-08 Faculty
of Arts Professor of the Year. The
Professor of the Year award is given
to a professor who has excelled in
teaching, research, and service. Lori
certainly meets these criteria.
The many students who signed her
nomination letter note the dedication
and compassion Lori brings to her
teaching. In addition to her
classroom efforts to make students
adept in survey and research
methods, and on top of the bi-weekly
research seminar she organized for
our honours and graduate students,
Lori’s door to her office always
remains open for any student or
colleague in need of advice. Indeed,
one often finds a group of students
sitting around Lori in her office, as
she employs a large number of them
through her many research grants.
journals. But her work also reaches
beyond the confines of academe
through research reports and public
presentations designed to help policy
makers and citizens contend with
pressing issues of race and ethnic
relations, immigration and refugee
studies, citizenship, youth, identity
formation, and quantitative research
methodology
Amidst all of this, Lori still gives time
to the administration of the
University and our department. She is
currently the Associate Head and
Director of Undergraduate Studies, as
well as a member of more
committees than we have space here
to list. The Department of Sociology
is grateful to have her as a member
and look forward to the chance to
celebrate with her this tremendous
achievement.
Student Accomplishments
RECENT AWARDS
Michelle Albl, M.A., Western Regional
Training Centre for Health Services
Research WRTC, $5000.
Jeremy Patzer, M.A., SSHRC, $17,500
Jeremy Patzer, M.A., Manitoba
Graduate Scholarship, $15,000
Jeremy Patzer, M.A., University of
Manitoba Fellowship, $12,000
Jeremy Patzer, M.A., Sociology
Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship,
$2000
Tina Sorenson, M.A., Western Regional
Training Centre for Health Services
Research WRTC, $5000.
Stefan Wolejszo, Ph.D., Faculty of Arts
J.G. Fletcher Award, $2400
2007 THESES
Tara Baxter, M.A., “Connecting Child
Advocacy Groups: Exploring Nodes and
Networks Combating Child Sexual
Exploitation” (R. Smandych, advisor)
Sarah MacKinnon, M.A., “Discursive
Discrimination on Panhandling in
Winnipeg Newspapers” (C. Powell,
advisor)
Temitope Oriola, M.A., “New Cultures,
New Laws: Perceptions of Nigerians in
Winnipeg about Canadian Laws and
Criminal Justice System” (R. Smandych,
advisor)
Jessica Antony, M.A., SSHRC, $17,500
Mahmuder Bhuiyan, Ph.D., Faculty of
Arts Graduate Award, $12,000
A.K.M. Hassan Chawdhury, M.A.,
Manitoba Graduate Scholarship, $15,000
Jason Edgerton, Ph.D., SSHRC,
$105,000
For Lori, commitment to teaching
has not lessened her research agenda.
She is one of the department’s, if not
the
university’s,
most
active
researchers. Her research has been
funded
by
SSHRC,
CIHR,
Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
Health Canada, and the Prairie Centre
of Excellence for Research on
Immigration and Integration, and her
publications have appeared in wellrespected Canadian and international
Alison Kalischuk, M.A., SSHRC,
$17,500
Bong-Hwan Kim, Ph.D., Conference
Travel Award, $350.
Sarah MacKinnon, M.A., University of
Manitoba Graduate Fellowship, $12,000
2007-08 HONOURS AND PREMASTERS THESES
Shawn Baker, “Investigation into
Healthy Aging: Structure versus Agency”
(A. Segall, advisor)
Justine Brisebois, “Feminine Agents:
Active Consumption Practices in Vogue”
(S. Prentice, advisor)
Jennifer Dengate, “Sex Differences in
Mental Health: The Effects of Social
Roles” (L. Wilkinson, advisor)
Nadine Nowatzki, Ph.D., SSHRC,
$105,000
Rachel Heinrichs, “Look Who’s
Talking: The News Media and Gangs in
Winnipeg” (E. Comack, advisor)
Nadine Nowatzki, Ph.D., Conference
Travel Award, $350
Jocelyn Lalonde, “If It Bleeds It Leads”
(Frank Cormier, advisor)
Tempitope Oriole, M.A., Manitoba
Graduate Scholarship, $15,000
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Kellie Liebrecht, “Advertising Media:
Turning Over a New Corporate Leaf?”
(S. Bookman, advisor)
James Lyons, “Community Economic
Development: A Strategy to Combat
Inner City Decline in Winnipeg” (S.
Prentice, advisor)
Ryan McElhoes, “Doctrine of
Indifference: Protestant Fundamentalist
Attitudes towards the Environment” (K.
MacKendrick, advisor)
Kenneth Ian McLeod, “The Potential
of Restorative Justice for Addressing
Youth Auto Theft in Winnipeg” (A.
Woolford, advisor)
Charles Mulvenna, “Mobilizing Terror:
An Analysis of al Qaeda” (A. Woolford,
advisor)
Ashley Pearson, “Lost in the Streets:
Aboriginal Females and the Sex Trade”
(E. Comack, advisor)
Kaeleigh Schroeder, “The Hérouxville
Controversy: Democratic Racism in
Canada” (L. Wilkinson, advisor)
Nicholas Weselowski, “Relevant
Counterfactuals: The Co-operative Model
as an Alternative to the Capitalist Mode
of Production” (J. Guard, advisor)
Faculty Activities
2007 BOOKS
Linden, Rick. Sociology in Our Times:
The Essentials, 4th Edition. Toronto:
Thomson, Nelson. (With Diana Kendall
and Jane Murray).
Elizabeth Comack and Salena
Brickey. “Constituting the Violence of
Criminalized Women.” Canadian Journal of
Criminology and Criminal Justice 49 (1): 1-36.
Leo Driedger. “Hutterites” in The
Encyclopedia of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Great
Plains Press.
Susan Prentice. “Childcare, Justice and
the City: A Case Study of Planning
Failure in Winnipeg.” Canadian Journal of
Urban Research. 16 (1):92-108.
Leo Driedger. “Johann Driedger: An
Exploratory Spirit.” Saskatchewan
Mennonite Historian 10: 5-8.
Susan Prentice. “Less Access, Worse
Quality: New Evidence about Poor
Children and Childcare in Canada.”
Journal of Children and Poverty 13 (1):57-73.
Jason Edgerton. “Higher Education and
Welfare Regimes: Comparing Canada
with Sweden and the United States.” In
Comparative Research in the Social Sciences .
N. Genov (Ed.) Paris and Sofia: ISSC
and REGLO.
Susan Prentice. “Childcare, CoProduction and the Third Sector in
Canada,” In Co-Production: The Third Sector
and the Delivery of Public Services. V. Pestoff
and T. Bransden, T. (Eds.) London:
Routledge.
Julia Kwong. “Child Coresidence
Among Older Adults Living in Beijing,
China: Trends, Determinants and
Transitions” in New Perspectives on China
and Aging. Ian G. Cook and Jason L.
Powell (Eds.) New York: Nova Science
Pub (with Zak Zimmer).
Susan Prentice. "Childcare, the 'Business
Case' and Economic Development:
Canadian Evidence, Opportunities and
Challenges." International Journal of
Economic Development 9 (4): 269 - 300
Julia Kwong. Editor, Teachers’
Satisfaction, special issue of Chinese
Education and Society 40:5
Rick Linden. “Situational Crime
Prevention: Its Role in Comprehensive
Prevention Initiatives.” IPC Review 1
(March):139-159.
Rick Linden, Chris Murphy and David
Last. “Obstacles on the Road to Peace
and Justice: The Role of Civilian Police in
Peacekeeping” in Crafting Transnational
Policing: Police Capacity-Building and Global
Policing Reform. A. Goldsmith and J.
Sheptycki (eds.) Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Rick Linden, David Last and Chris
Murphy. “Policing Palestine: Civilian
Police Lessons for the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict.” in Stabilizing the Israeli-Palestinian
Bi-Level Conflict Zone: Considerations for a
Multinational Peace Support Operation. M.
and D. Kellen (eds.) Jerusalem: Harry S.
Truman Institute for the Advancement
of Peace, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
2007 JOURNAL ARTICLES and
BOOK CHAPTERS
genocide.” Journal of Genocide Research 9
(4): 527-547.
Gregg M. Olsen. “Toward Global
Convergence in Social Welfare? Family
Policy and Health Care in Sweden,
Canada and the United States.” Journal of
Sociology and Social Welfare 34 (2):143-64
Christopher Powell. “What do
genocides kill? A relational conception of
Jessica Woolford and Andrew Woolford
“Abortion and Genocide: The
Unbridgeable Gap.” Social Politics 14 (1):
126-153.
2007 RESEARCH REPORTS
Debra Parkes, Kathy Bent, Tracey Booth,
and Tracey Peter. “Listening to their
Voices: Women Prisoners and Access to
Justice in Manitoba.” Report prepared by
the Elizabeth Fry Society of Manitoba for
the Law Commission of Canada and the
Canadian Bar Association.
Susan Prentice. Franco-Manitoban
Childcare: Childcare as Economic, Social and
Language Development in St-Pierre-Jolys.
Winnipeg: Child Care Coalition of
Manitoba.
Susan Prentice. Northern Childcare:
Childcare as Economic and Social Development
in Thompson. Winnipeg: Child Care
Coalition of Manitoba.
Susan Prentice. Rural Childcare: Childcare
as Economic and Social Development in
Parkland. Winnipeg: Child Care Coalition
of Manitoba.
Kerstin Rogers and Jane Ursel. Legislated
Frameworks and Service Provision Regarding
Abuse and/or Neglect of Older Adults in
Manitoba. Submitted to the Manitoba
Seniors Secretariat, June.
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Jane Ursel, Jocelyn Proulx, Lucy Dean
and Sharon Costello. Evaluation of the
TERF Youth and Adult Programs.
Submitted to Manitoba Department of
Justice, April.
Lori Wilkinson, Mahmudur Bhuiyan,
John Lehr and Jeremy Patzer. Ethnicity,
Civil Society, and Public Policy: Canadian
Ethnic Studies Association 19th Biennial
Conference, September 27-29 2007 Final
Project Report. Ottawa: Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Lori Wilkinson and Rachael Pettigrew
Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB)
Review 2007. Winnipeg : Dept of Labour
& Immigration, Multiculturalism Branch.
Rachael Pettigrew and Lori Wilkinson
IMDB and Beyond 20/20 Vision Browser
Workshop Manual. Winnipeg: Dept of
Labour & Immigration, Multiculturalism
Branch.
Lori Wilkinson. Point of View:
Ethnocultural Groups of the Prairies Cultural
Diversity Website. National Film Board
of Canada. Available on-line at:
http://nfb.ca/duneculturealautre/pdv_te
xte.php?id=2012
2007 CONFERENCE PAPERS AND
PRESENTATIONS
Cheryl Albas and Dan Albas. Keynote
Lecture and Workshop, Second Annual
Qualitative Research and Analysis Workshop,
St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B.,
November.
Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas.
“Modesty: A Case for Revelation and
Concealment” Annual Meetings of the Society
for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. New
York, NY., August.
Cheryl Albas and Dan Albas. “The
Bedroom: Its Effects as a Socializing
Agent in Child Development” Qualitative
Analysis Conference, St. Thomas University
& University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, N.B., May.
Sonia Bookman. “Global Brands and
Local Cosmopolitanisms in Everyday
Urban Life” Everyday Life in the Global City
Conference, The Manchester Institute of
Social and Spatial Transformations,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
Manchester, July.
Sonia Bookman. “Interacting with
Brands in Everyday Urban Life: Brandconsumer connectivity and co-generation
of urban culture” British Sociological
Association Annual Conference, London,
April.
Elizabeth Comack. “Being an Ally?
Doing Research with Marginalized
People.” Law and Society Research Cluster
Roundtable, University of Manitoba,
October.
Elizabeth Comack. “Masculinity and
Violence” Key Note Address to the Annual
General Meeting of the Laurel Centre, Clarion
Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June.
Leo Driedger. “Growing Urban Global
Networks: Mennonites in Winnipeg”
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association,
Winnipeg, September.
Jason Edgerton, Lance Roberts, Lori
Wilkinson, and Andrew Woolford.
“Social Conditions and Marginalization
among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada”
Markers of Ethnic Marginalization,
University of Southern Bohemia, Ceske
Budejovice, Czech Republic, April.
Christopher Fries. “Medical Pluralism
in a Global Perspective: An Item on the
Agenda for Borderless Health Research”
Borders and Crossings, the Inaugural
Partnership Conference, University of
Szeged and University of Manitoba,
Szeged, Hungary, June.
Christopher Fries. “Governing the
Health of the Hybrid Self: Neoliberalism,
the Evolving Biopolitics of Subjectivity,
and Integrative Medicine” Annual Meeting
of the Canadian Sociology Association,
Saskatoon, June.
Christopher Fries. “Invitation to a
Reflexive Health Sociology: The Case of
Alternative Medicine” Annual Meeting of
the Canadian Sociology Association,
Saskatoon, June.
Gregg M. Olsen. “Toward Global
Welfare Convergence?: Labour Market
Policy and Old Age Policy in Sweden,
Canada and the US” Annual Meeting of the
ISA Research Committee 19 (RC19 Poverty,
Social Welfare and Social Policy), University
of Florence, Florence, Italy, September.
Tracey Peter and Mary-Jo Bolton.
“Bridging the Gaps: The Interaction of
Community and Hospital Care among
Trauma Survivors” Provincial Trauma
Forum, Franco-Manitoba Centre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, June.
Debra Parkes and Tracey Peter
“Listening to Their Voices: Women
Prisoners and Access to Justice in
Manitoba.” Law and Society Research Cluster
Roundtable, University of Manitoba,
January.
Christopher Powell. “The Life of
Nations: Lemkin’s Functionalism and the
Meaning of ‘Genocide’” Annual Meeting of
the Canadian Sociology Association,
University of Saskatchewan, May.
Susan Prentice. Equity Plenary, Growing
More of What Works, Western Regional
Conference of Faculty Associations,
Saskatoon, October.
Susan Prentice. “Beyond Auspice:
Interrogating Public-Private Partnerships
for Childcare Delivery” British Educational
Research Association (BERA), London,
England, September.
Susan Prentice. “Public Policy, Private
Delivery: The Puzzle of Public-Private
Partnerships in Childcare” The Mixed
Economy of Childcare: Risks and
Opportunities: An International Conference,
International Centre for the Study of the
Mixed Market Economy of Childcare,
University of East London, September.
Laura Brown, Susan Prentice and
Elizabeth Troutt, “Sex and Salaries at the
University of Manitoba: Systemic
Discrimination in a Canadian University”
Canadian Economics Association Annual
Meeting. Dalhousie University, Halifax,
May.
Susan Prentice. “The ‘Investable’ Child
and the Business Case for Childcare:
Canadian Explorations” What Is ‘Quality
Care’? Cultural Assumptions in Institutions of
Early Childhood Education, The Harry S.
Truman Research Institute for the
Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel, May.
Susan Prentice. “Childcare and
Economic/Community Development.”
Rural Forum 2007, Brandon, April.
Susan Prentice. “Technical Issues” and
“Turning Research Into Action: Political
Opportunities and Challenges,” Child
Care Coalition of Manitoba Conference,
Winnipeg, April.
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Susan Prentice. “Does Language
Matter? Childcare and the Case for
‘Social Investment’” Women Scholars
Visiting Speakers’ Series, President’s Office,
University of Lethbridge, January.
Jane Ursel and Reagan Gordon.
“Preliminary Results of the Longitudinal
Study of Women in Violent Relations”
RESOLVE Research Day, University of
Calgary, November.
Lance Roberts. “An Analysis of Facility
Conditions and Learning Environments
Using Canadian P.I.S.A. Evidence”
S.P.O.S.A. Conference, Edmonton, May.
Jane Ursel. “Offenders, and Recidivism
Within the Winnipeg Family Violence
Court” RESOLVE Research Day,
University of Calgary, November.
Lance Roberts and S. von Below.
“Migrants and Educational Achievement:
An Exploration of Determinants of
Success in Canada and Germany”
Negotiating Diversity: Transatlantic Exchanges
Between Canada and Europe, Zentrum fur
Nordamerica-Forschung (ZENAF),
Frankfurt, Germany, April.
Jane Ursel. “The Processing of Child
Abuse Cases in the Winnipeg Family
Violence Court,” Presentation to the
Victims Services Unit of Manitoba
Department of Justice, Nov.
Lance Roberts. “Facility Conditions and
Learning Outcomes: Canadian
Evidence,” Educational Research and
Development Institute, Mont Tremblant,
Quebec, February.
Alex Segall and Nadine Nowatzki. “If
You Build It, Who Will Stay? Predicting
Membership Retention in a Fitness
Facility” International Society for Behavioral
Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting,
Oslo, Norway, June.
Alex Segall and Linda Wood. “The
Search for a Health Lifestyle: Meaning and
Measurement” IUHPE World Conference on
Health Promotion and Health Education,
Vancouver, B.C., June.
Russell Smandych. “Law and Empire:
Discourses on the Amenability of
Indigenous Peoples to British Law in
Four Nineteenth-century British Settler
Colonies” Irish Conference of Historians:
Empires and their Contested Pasts, Queen’s
University Belfast, May.
Russell Smandych. “Youth Justice
and/or Youth Protection? A Comparison
of Legislative Reforms in Canada and
Ireland” invited presentation cosponsored by the Centre for Canadian
Studies, the Institute of Criminology
(School of Law), and the Humanities
Institute of Ireland, University College
Dublin, Ireland, May.
Russell Smandych. “British Colonial
Law Administration in the Midnineteenth Century” Law and Society
Research Cluster Roundtable, University of
Manitoba, January.
Jane Ursel. “The Challenge of Chronic
Re-offenders in the Winnipeg Family
Violence Court,” Presentation to the
Domestic Violence Unit Public
Prosecutions Division of Manitoba
Department of Justice, June.
Jane Ursel. “Seventeen Years of
Specialized Family Violence Court Data
in Winnipeg: Lessons Learned” Congress of
the Humanities and Social Sciences, University
of Saskatchewan, May.
Jane Ursel. “Documenting Social
Change: Offending, Reoffending and
Rehabilitation” Breakfast and Brainstorm,
Manitoba Legislative Bldg. March.
Jane Ursel. “Winnipeg Family Violence
Court: a Contemporary Perspective” Law
and Society Research Cluster Roundtable,
University of Manitoba, January.
Jane Ursel. “Documenting Social
Change: Processes and Outcomes from
16 Years of Study of the Winnipeg
Family Violence Court.” This lunch has 33
Minutes, University of Manitoba, Jan.
Lori Wilkinson. “Ethnic Identity,
Inclusion and Canadian Heritage:
Observations of youth in a mid-sized
Canadian city” 19th Biennial Conference of the
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association,
Winnipeg, September.
John Anchan, Ester Blum, Lori
Wilkinson, Joyce Cabigting, and BongHwan Kim. “Does it take a Community
to Educate a Child? Supports of
newcomer children in their educational
achievement” 19th Biennial Conference of the
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association,
Winnipeg, September.
Lori Wilkinson. “Brain Waste and Brain
Drain: Accreditation and Philippine
Migration to Manitoba” Invited panelist
for the Global College Summer Institute,
University of Winnipeg and ANAK:
Aksyon Ng Ating Kabataan, July.
Lori Wilkinson, John Anchan, Esther
Blum, Shiva Halli, Bong-Hwan Kim
and Joyce Cabigting Fernandes. “An
Examination of Integration, Inclusion,
Exclusion and Bullying: A Snapshot of
the Experiences of Newcomer Youth to
the Prairies” at Strength in Diversity
Conference, invited by the Nigerian
Association of Manitoba as keynote
speaker, June.
Yvonne Hébert, Lori Wilkinson and
Mehrunnisa Ali. “New Modes of
Becoming in Three Canadian Cities:
Focus on Second Generation Youth and
Implications for Social Policy” Xi’an
University Conference, Xi’an Peoples
Republic of China, May.
Lori Wilkinson, Rana McDonald,
Fasil Demsash and Temitope Oriola.
“Negotiating the City: An Exposition of
Urban Life among Winnipeg Youth”
Canadian and International Education Society
Conference, University of Saskatchewan,
May.
Lori Wilkinson, Temitope Oriola,
Rana McDonald and Fasil Demsash.
“Inclusion and Exclusion among
Canadian Youth in a Mid-Sized Canadian
City” Annual Meeting of the Canadian
Sociology Association, University of
Saskatchewan, May.
Lori Wilkinson. “The Social Integration
of Newcomer and Second Generation
Youth in Canada” 9th National Metropolis
Conference, University of Toronto, York
University and Ryerson University,
Toronto, March.
Lori Wilkinson, E. Blum, J. P. Anchan,
S. Halli, J. Cabigting, and B-H. Kim.
“Experiences and Perceptions of Unfair
Treatment among Immigrant and
Refugee Youth in the Prairies” 9th
National Metropolis Conference, University of
Toronto, York University and Ryerson
University, Toronto, March.
Yvonne Hébert, Lori Wilkinson and
Mehrunissa Ali. “Reading and
Experiencing Urban Landscapes: Youth
in Three Canadian Cities” 9th National
Metropolis Conference, University of
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Toronto, York University and Ryerson
University, Toronto, March.
Students,” University of Manitoba Research
Grants Program, $7,296.
Lori Wilkinson. “Métis People and the
Experience of Discrimination, Inequality
and Racism: The Vertical Mosaic
Revisited” Invited by the Manitoba Métis
Federation and presented at Métis PostSecondary Education: Making the Connections,
University of Winnipeg, January.
Susan Prentice. Merit Award for
Research and Service, University of
Manitoba (2007)
Anchan, J. P., Wilkinson, L., Blum, E.,
Halli, S., Cabigting, J. & Kim, B-H.
(2007). “Immigration and Integration:
Becoming a Canadian.” 4th Annual Brown
Bag Lecture Series. University of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, January.
Andrew Woolford. “Genocidal
Networks and the Assimilation of Repair:
The British Columbia Treaty Process”
International Association of Genocide Scholars,
Sarajevo, Bosnia, July.
R.S. Ratner and Andrew Woolford “On
Becoming a Profession: Carving the
Mediation Niche” Canadian Law and
Society Association, University of
Saskatchewan, May.
2007 RESEARCH GRANTS AND
AWARDS
Sonia Bookman. “Global Brands,
Urban Culture,” University of Manitoba
Research Research Grants Program, $4,848.
Elizabeth Comack. Certificate of
Recognition, Arts Celebrating Arts, Faculty
of Arts, University of Manitoba,
September.
CCPA-MB, J. Loxley (P.I), L. Bruce, L.
Chartrand, Elizabeth Comack, L.
Deane, J. Distasio, P. Ghorayshi, J. Hill,
I. Hudson, P. Kulchyski, S. MacKinnon,
B. Reimer, J. Silver, and I. Skelton.
“Transforming Aboriginal and Inner-City
Communities” SSHRC/CURA, $1
million (2007-12).
Leo Driedger. International Peace Prize for
Outstanding Personal Achievement from the
United Cultural Convention of the U.S.
Rick Linden. Robert Mann, and
Reginald Smart. AUTO21 Network of
Centres of Excellence for a National Study of
Automobile Crime, $380,000.
Tracey Peter. “Investigating Mental
Illness and Stigma among University
Russell Smandych, Louis Knafla,
Amanda Nettelbeck, Robert Foster.
“Policing the Canadian and Australian
Frontiers of Settlement: A Comparative
Perspective.” International Council for
Canadian Studies (ICCS) International
Research Linkages Grant, $8,000.
Lori Wilkinson and John Lehr.
“Ethnicity, Civil Society, and Public
Policy” Glyn Berry Global Peace and Security
Fund (inaugural winner), to fund the
Canadian Ethnic Studies Association 19th
Biennial Conference, Winnipeg, September,
$23,655
Christopher Powell. “Reply to Keith
Doubt.” Canadian Journal of Sociology
Online, November-December 2007.
http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/replyto
doubt.html
Christopher Powell. “Review of Keith
Doubt, Understanding Evil: Lessons
From Bosnia” Canadian Journal of Sociology
Online, July-August 2007.
http://www.cjsonline.ca/reviews/evil.ht
ml
Susan Prentice. Review of Estrogen’s
Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause by J.
Prior (Vancouver: CMCOR) in Herizons
(Fall).
NEW FOR 2008
John Lehr and Lori Wilkinson.
“Ethnicity, Civil Society and Public
Policy: Engaging Cultures in a
Globalizing World” Canadian International
Development Agency, to fund the Canadian
Ethnic Studies Association 19th Biennial
Conference and a special issue of the Journal
of Canadian Ethnic Studies, Winnipeg,
September, $25,000.
Lori Wilkinson. “Ethnicity, Civil Society
& Public Policy: Engaging Cultures in a
Globalizing World” University of
Manitoba (VP Academic, Faculty of Arts,
Department of Sociology), to fund the
19th Biennial Conference of the Canadian
Ethnic Studies Association, Winnipeg,
September, $2,200
2007 BOOK REVIEWS
Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas. Review of
Erving Goffman by Greg Smith (New
York: Routledge) in Contemporary Sociology:
A Journal of Reviews (36) 6: 553–555.
Frank Cormier. Review of Unfinished
Constitutional Business? Rethinking Indigenous
Self-determination by Barbara Hocking
(Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press) in
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, vol. 49 no.3.
Tracey Peter. Review of The Madwoman
in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the
Ivory Tower by Deborah Keahey and
Deborah Schnitzer (Calgary: University
of Calgary Press) in Herizons (Winter).
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