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Mariana Valverde is a professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006. She served as the Director of the Centre from 2007 to 2013 and was one of the founders of the Sexual Diversity Studies program. Prior to joining the University of Toronto in 1993, she was an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and taught in Women’s Studies at Trent University. In 2016, Valverde received the Law Society Association’s Harry J. Kalven Jr. Award for her empirical scholarship that has significantly advanced research in law and society. She has won the Association’s Herbert Jacobs Book Prize twice for her major contributions to socio-legal scholarship, including works such as 'Diseases Alcohol Dilemmas Freedom' and 'Everyday Law Streets: City Governance Age Diversity'. Her recent scholarship includes 'Michel Foucault', which provides an accessible account of Foucault’s work in the context of legal studies and criminological research. Valverde’s main research interests include urban law governance, Foucault, sexuality studies, and theories of spatiotemporality, complemented by her SSHRC-funded research project that explores legal tools in public-private partnerships.
Department of Sociology