{"id":64,"date":"2013-12-23T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T22:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/template-beginner\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:15:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/wcarroll\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography\/CV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Download my sociological autobiography here.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

This invited chapter was published in Canadian Sociologists in the First Person, a book co-edited by Stephen Riggins and Neil McLaughlin and published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021.<\/p>\n

Download my cv<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEW<\/b>
\nIn February 2010, Elaine Coburn, co-editor of the journal Socialist Studies <\/em>at the time, interviewed me at some length. The transcript is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Key Passages<\/b><\/p>\n

1952\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Born close to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

1968\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Immigrated to Canada<\/p>\n

1971\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduated from Medway High School, Arva Ontario<\/p>\n

1975\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Graduated from Brock University with Honours B.A. in Sociology<\/p>\n

1976\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Received M.A. in Sociology from York University<\/p>\n

1981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Received Ph.D. in Sociology from York University<\/p>\n

1981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria<\/p>\n

1987\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Promoted to Associate Professor<\/p>\n

1987-8 Study Leave: Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam<\/p>\n

1993\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Promoted to Professor<\/p>\n

1994-5 Study Leave: Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane<\/p>\n

1994-7 \u00a0 Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Contemporary Social and Political\u00a0Thought<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Scholar, Kanazawa State University, Japan<\/p>\n

2000-1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Study Leave: Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study\u00a0in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)<\/p>\n

2000-3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Editor, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology<\/p>\n

2003-6\u00a0\u00a0 Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology, University of Victoria<\/p>\n

2006-9\u00a0\u00a0 Co-Chair of the Canadian Studies Program Committee, University of Victoria<\/p>\n

2008-12\u00a0 Director of the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program in Social Justice Studies, \u00a0University of Victoria<\/p>\n

2012-13\u00a0 Study Leave: field work in South America, Europe, Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and North America<\/p>\n

2010-14\u00a0 President, Research Committee 02 Economy and Society, International Sociological \u00a0Association<\/p>\n

2014-15 \u00a0Programme Co-chair, Society for Socialist Studies<\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Study leave; began co-directing The Corporate mapping Project, with Shannon Daub of CCPA-BC as Co-Director<\/p>\n

2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Visiting Professor, Institute of Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen<\/p>\n

2018-23 Vice-President, Research Committee 07 Futures Sociology, International Sociological Association<\/p>\n

2020 Elected to fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada<\/p>\n

Awards<\/b><\/p>\n

2022 Canadian Review of Sociology Best Article Award, Canadian Sociological Association, for “Mapping the Environmental Field: Networks of Foundations, ENGOs and Think Tanks,” with Nick Graham and Mark Shakespear as coauthors<\/p>\n

2019 Reach Award for Excellence in Research Partnership, University of Victoria (shared with Shannon Daub, Corporate Mapping Project Co-Director)<\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awarded a Partnership grant of $2.5 million from SSHRC for ‘Mapping the Power of the Carbon-Extractive Corporate Resource Sector’<\/p>\n

2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Article of the Year award from the Canadian Sociological Association, for ‘Discipline, field, nexus: re-visioning sociology’<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Community Outreach Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outstanding Contribution Award, Canadian Sociological Association<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Research Excellence Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award (Canadian Sociological Association), for\u00a0Corporate Power in a Globalizing World\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2004)<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Outstanding Service Award, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association<\/p>\n

1988\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award (Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association), for\u00a0Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism\u00a0<\/i>(UBC Press, 1986)<\/p>\n

1981\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship (declined)<\/p>\n

1977-80\u00a0\u00a0 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowships<\/p>\n

1975-77\u00a0\u00a0 Ontario Graduate Scholarships<\/p>\n

1975\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 P.A. Sorokin Award in Sociology (Brock University)<\/p>\n

1975 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Brock University Vice Chancellor’s Medal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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