Emily Alexander Editor

Patrizia Albanese is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. She is the author of Children in Canada Today (OUP Canada, 2009) and Child Poverty in Canada (OUP Canada, 2009), and a co-editor with Lorne Tepperman of Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, 3e (OUP Canada, 2012). She is past president of the Canadian Sociological Association. She was also interim chair of Ryerson's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology (2011-2012), interim director of the PhD in Policy Studies (2013), and currently sits on Ryerson's Research Ethics Board. Lorne Tepperman is a professor in the sociology department at the University of Toronto. He served as chair of the department from 1997 to 2003, and has won many teaching awards, including the Dean's Excellence Award, an Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts and Science, and an Oswald Hall Teaching Award given by the Department of Sociology. In 2003, Lorne received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Sociology Association. He is the author or editor of numerous books published by OUP, including Principles of Sociology: Canadian Perspectives, 3e (2014), Social Problems: A Canadian Perspective, 3e (2011), and Starting Points (2011). Emily Alexander is an independent social researcher who specializes in issues related to higher education, everyday life, work, and technology. Her current research focuses on student disengagement behaviours in the university classroom in order to evaluate and offer a new perspective on existing measures of disengagement. Having graduated with a master's degree in sociology from the University of Western Ontario, Emily hopes to pursue doctoral studies so that she may continue to tackle social issues through research, teaching, and community involvement.