Robert Andersen received a PhD in Sociology from McMaster University in 1998, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. His dissertation examines the survey practices of Canadian polling firms, evaluates the role of the media and pre-election polls during the 1997 Canadian Federal election, and analyses the dynamics of the election campaign. His teaching and research interests include quantitative methods, political sociology, the sociology of work, and Canadian society.
randerse@brocku.ca
Bernd Baldus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His interest in life course research stems from his work in sociological theory on the evolution of social structures, especially patterns of social inequality.
bbaldus@chass.utoronto.ca
Robert J. Brym is Professor of Sociology and Associate of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published widely on Canadian and Russian societies and the sociology of intellectuals. He is currently planning nationwide surveys that will critically examine the social bases of democracy in Canada and Russia. His next book (with John Lie) is Why Sociology? (Fort Worth TX: Harcourt Brace, 2001).
rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca
Joseph Dubonnet has an honours BA in Sociology from Nipissing University, and an MA from McMaster University. His sociological interests include political economy, social and economic development, with an emphasis on globalization and the environment.
John Fox is Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. He has published many articles and books on social psychology, sociology, and social statistics. His most recent book is Applied Regression Analysis, Linear Models, and Related Methods, published by Sage in 1997.
jfox@mcmaster.ca
Helga Krüger is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the sociology of work and on life course research. She is currently involved in a long-term study of labour market effects on women’s life courses.
hkrueger@sfb186.uni-bremen.de
Reza Nakhaie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor. His research focuses on the intersection of class, gender and ethnicity as they effect access to economic resources and political attitudes. He is involved in a SSHRCC funded project to evaluate the political and ethnic culture of Canadian professors. His most recent edited book is Debates on Social Inequality in Canada: Class, Gender and Ethnicity (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada, 1999).
nakhaie@uwindsor.ca
Geeorge S. Rigakos is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary’s University. He has published award-winning research on both critical criminological theory and policing woman battery. His most recent work focuses on ‘the new parapolice’ and the rise of actuarial practices in emergent neo-liberal risk markets.
george.rigakos@stmarys.ca