Core Faculty

Rochelle Côté
Associate Professor | Undergraduate Coordinator (Sociology)

Research Areas: Social Inequality – Ethnic Relations – Social Networks – Indigenous Entrepreneurship – Mixed Methods

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-3758 | E: rrcote@mun.ca | O: AA4057 |

Ailsa Craig
Professor | Acting Dean of the School of Graduate Studies

Research Areas: Cultural Sociology – 2SLGBTQAI+ Studies – Inequality, Equity, and Access – Sociology of Art

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-2686 | E: acraig@mun.ca | O: AA4068 |

Patrick Gamsby
Associate Professor

Research Areas: Social Theory – Critical Theory – Everyday Life – Space – Emotions

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-8170 | E: pgamsby@mun.ca | O: AA4065 |

Daniel Kudla
Associate Professor | Graduate Officer

Research Areas: Social Control – Poverty Governance – Homelessness – Policing – Neoliberal Urbanism

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-7584 | E: dkudla@mun.ca | O: AA4066 |

Scott Kenney
Associate Professor

Research Areas: Social Theory – Deviance – Interactionism – Victimology – Criminal Justice

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-8047 | E: skenney@mun.ca | O: AA4062 |

John McLevey
Professor | Department Head

Research Areas: Computational and Quantitative Methods – Social Networks – Computational Text Analysis – Culture, Cognition, and Emotion – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Sociology of Science – Environment and Society

T: (709) 864-7447 | E: mclevey@mun.ca | O: AA4060 |

Adrienne Peters
Associate Professor | Undergraduate Coordinator (Criminology)

Research Areas Social Control – Youth Justice – Psychological Health, Well-being, and Neurodiversity – Developmental Lifecourse – Policing

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-2665 | E: apeters@mun.ca | O: AA4053 |

John Peters
Associate Professor

Research Areas Labour Sociology – Social Inequality – Environment and Climate Change – Political Sociology

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-2086 | E: jpeters13@mun.ca | O: AA4069 |

Nicole Power
Professor

Research Areas Sociology of Work – Social Inequality – Fisheries and Rural Sociology – Human-Animal Relation

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-6914 | E: npower@mun.ca | O: AA4049B |

Mark Stoddart
Professor

Research Areas Environment and Society – Climate Change and Sustainability Transitions – Oil and Energy Transitions – Environmental Movements and Politics – Environmental Communication

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-8862 | E: mstoddart@mun.ca | O: AA4070 |

Allyson Stokes
Associate Professor | On Sabbatical Until January 2026

Research Areas Social Inequality – Sociology of Work – Sociology of Culture – Gender and Sexualities – Sociology of Education

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-8194 | E: a.stokes@mun.ca | O: AA4056 |

Jessica Templeman
Assistant Professor

Research Areas Border Criminologies - Sentencing - Race & racialization - Deportation

T: (709) 864-6913 | E: jtempleman@mun.ca | O: AA4063 |

Eric Tenkorang
Professor

Research Areas Demography – Global Health – Family Violence – Sociology of Africa – Quantitative Methods

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-2503 | E: eytenkorang@mun.ca | O: AA4049A |

Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Professor

Research Areas: Time, Space, and Everyday Life – Qualitative Methods – Symbolic Interaction – Science and Technology Studies – Sociology of Walls and Architecture

Faculty Profile

T: (709) 864-8677 | E: lvandenscott@mun.ca | O: AA4061 |