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Prof. Shelley Clark Honoured with Arts Research Distinction
This award recognises Prof' Clark exceptionally rigorous and innovative quantitative research, spanning multiple regions and decades.
Read the full article on the Faculty of Arts website.
Published: 21 May 2026
Prof. Eidlin on the future for Québec’s Labour Movement
Sociologist and labour expert Professor Barry Eidlin was recently invited to address the delegates of the États généraux du syndicalisme (EGS, Estates-General of Québec Labour).
Read the full article with his reflections from attending the two-day symposium in April 2026 on the Faculty of Arts news website.
Published: 19 May 2026
Thomas Soehl awarded FRQ funding to study French-language integration among newcomers
The project will study the challenges allophone newcomers to Quebec face in building the francophone social networks necessary for integrating French into daily life.
Published: 2 Apr 2026
Prof. Skyler Wang's work on AI companionship featured in The Atlantic
Prof. Skyler Wang's recently published Social Media + Society article on "on-demand" intimacy was featured in The Atlantic.
Published: 1 Apr 2026
Prof. Skyler Wang wins the Computational & Data Systems Institute's 2026 Convergent Research Themes (CRT) Program Grant
Together with co-PI Prof. Claire Boone (Economics & DEEP), Prof. Skyler Wang’s project, "Gender, Choice, and Trust in AI-Mediated Mental Health Care," has been awarded a $10,000 grant to investigate how perceptions of therapeutic chatbots' gender shape trust, user experience, and patterns of engagement.
Published: 19 Feb 2026
McGill Sociology in the Senate
Prof. Barry Eidlin of McGill's Department of Sociology was recently invited to testify before the Canadian Senate's Committee on Transportation and Communications.
Drawing on over two decades of research into Canadian and U.S. labour relations, Prof. Eidlin's remarks focused on how back-to-work orders are an ineffective tool, as well as the importance of respecting Charter-protected rights.
Published: 19 Nov 2025
Don’t Panic: Population Projection is not a Crystal Ball
In response to the growing alarmism around the so-called "demographic cliff," Clark and colleagues explain population projections and why most demographers are not panicking.
Published: 23 Sep 2025
Orsola Torrisi awarded Anne Shepherd Prize from British Society for Population Studies
Congratulations to Orsola Torrisi, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and member of McGill’s Centre for Population Dynamics (CPD), on receiving the Anne Shepherd New Investigator Award from the British Society for Population Studies.
Published: 17 Sep 2025
FRQSC grant awarded to Prof. Isabel Pike
The FRQSC has awarded Isabel Pike, Assistant Professor in McGill’s Department of Sociology , a research grant through their Research Support for New Academics competition.
The grant spans three years and will go towards Pike’s project “The Demographic Dividend and the Re-Economization of Population.”
Published: 10 Jul 2025
SSHRC Insight Development Grant awarded to Prof. Wang
Prof. Skyler Wang has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research on the growing integration of AI into dating apps.
Congratulations to Christopher Dietzel (Concordia), Stefanie Duguay (Concordia), David Myles (INRS) and Prof. Wang on receiving funding for this project.
Published: 7 Jul 2025
Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang receives Arts Insight Dissertation Award
Former Sociology graduate student Chih-lan (Winnie) Yang, who defended in 2024, has been awarded the Arts Insight Dissertation Award for her dissertation “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Family among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Post-Marriage Equality Canada.” The award was officially conferred at the Arts Faculty Council Meeting on May 20.
In a large faculty like Arts this is a major accomplishment and speaks to the rigorous and high-quality work of our students.
Published: 22 May 2025
Visiting Justice in Sociology of Law
SOCI 395: Sociology of Law was honoured to welcome Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis as a guest lecturer this past Winter 2025 semester.
Justice Karakatsanis shared reflections on her career trajectory and spoke to the relationship between law and society.
Published: 24 Apr 2025
"In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’" - Prof. Shelley Clark in the Washington Post
Prof. Shelley Clark has co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post on the sharp decline in traditional married families in rural America.
Read the article here: In rural America, more women are saying ‘I don’t’
Published: 13 Feb 2025
Prof. Barry Eidlin authors opinion piece on the Amazon Quebec closures
Prof. Barry Eidlin has written an opinion piece for The Globe and Mail in response to Amazon's decision to close its Quebec operations.
Read the article here: Why the union hate, Amazon? What's really behind the closing of Quebec Operations.
Published: 30 Jan 2025