Supervisors

Department Supervisors & Availability

Please see below, a list of our departments faculty summarizing their research interests and availability to supervise students in the 2026-27 academic year. For more information, please see our Faculty & Staff Contact Page.

Dr. Katharina Maier

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: punishment, prisoner reentry, homelessness, drugs, victimization

Dr. Kevin Walby

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: surveillance; security; policing; risk; qualitative methods

Dr. Kelly Gorkoff

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: political economy of CJS; gender & CJS; State theories; social determinants of crime; crime policy

Dr. Sarah Heath

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: collaborative evaluation, youth participatory action research, criminal justice evaluation, Communication Intermediaries

Dr. Steven Kohm

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: cultural criminology; media and crime; environmental justice; sensory criminology; anti-colonial protest

Dr. Michelle Bertrand

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: Canadian juries; jury representativeness; eyewitness memory; eyewitness identification policy

Dr. Michael Weinrath

Supervising in 2026-27: Yes

Research Areas: prison Environment, problem-solving courts, procedural justice, therapeutic communities, pre-trial detention, and inmate classification.

Dr. Amelia Curran

Supervising in 2026-27: No

Research Areas: judicial interim release/bail, gangs, community-engaged research, qualitative methods, and post-structural theory

Dr. Marcella Cassiano

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Dr. Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land

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Dawnis Kennedy

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Javier Torres

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