JCURA recipients

Congratulations to the next generation of sociology researchers.

2023-24

Camille Grafton, Illuminating the Shades of Grey in the Black and White World of Consent Education.

Cas Allen, Transgender Travel: A Sociolegal Analysis of Safety and Risk.

Sunny Enkin Lewis, The Faces Behind “JewBook”: An Exploration of Online Jewish Community.

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2022-23

Adele Mark, Where’s the Pleasure in That? Examining the Impacts of BC’s Sex Education System on Women’s Sexuality.

Dominica Prasad, Eternal Records: A Sociological Analysis of Emigration Passes Used in the British India Indentured Labour Program.

Talia Shortt, The Social and Institutional Dimensions Behind Aviation Accidents: A Sociological Investigation Into the Dramatic Final Flight of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.

Hannah Thon, Seeing Power, Seeing Colour: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Colorblindness Within Academic Understandings of BDSM.

2020-2021

Cole Freeman, Modernity’s Slow Decline: Sociological Implications of New Social Movements.

Dorothy Poon, Knowledge Mediation and The Immigrant Experience in Victoria, BC: Vulnerability, Information Accessibility and Junctures for Empowerment.

Yang Yang, A Comparative Analysis of Discriminatory Gender Attitudes and Violence Against Women Across Countries.

2019-2020

Melina Emilia Cortina Castro, Impermanent Workers, Permanent Labour: Policy Analysis of Temporary Foreign Workers Programs in BC.

Caroline Lauder, Exploring the Intersection between Sociology and Marketing.

Candace Woodland, Bisexual Identity Maintenance: Facing Biphobia and Bi-Erasure in Popular Media.