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Assistant Professor
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Sociology
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- Assistant ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Science, Department of Sociology
BIO
Jan Doering is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research is situated in two, sometimes overlapping areas: 1) social control and conflict in urban neighborhoods and 2) individual experiences and responses in relation to discrimination. His recent research has appeared in the Urban Affairs Review, Social Problems, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. His first book Us Versus Them: Race, Crime, and Gentrification in Chicago Neighborhoods (Oxford University Press 2020) examines conflict over crime and gentrification in the era of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2023 - present
- Associate ProfessorMcGill University, Montreal, Canada2022 - 2023
- Assistant ProfessorMcGill University, Montreal, Canada2016 - 2022
- Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2014 - 2016
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, United States2014
- MAUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, United States2010
- DiplomBielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany2008
INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
- School of Cities