The Authors/Les auteurs

Robert J. Brym is Professor of Sociology and an Associate of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. He is former Editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Current Sociology, and East European Jewish Affairs. His latest works include "Suicide bombing as strategy and interaction: The case of the second intifada," Social Forces (84, 3: 2006), with Bader Araj; "The return of the native: A cultural and social-psychological critique of Durkheim's Suicide based on the Guarani-Kaiowá of southwestern Brazil," Sociological Theory (24, 1: 2006), with Cynthia Lins Hamlin; and Sociology: Your Compass for a New World, 2^nd Canadian ed. (Toronto: Nelson, 2006), with John Lie and Steven Rytina. He is currently conducting SSHRC-funded research on suicide bombers with Israeli and Palestinian sociologists.
rbrym@chass.utoronto.ca

Trevor Harrison is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. His research interests include Canadian society, political sociology, and public policy.
trevor.harrison@uleth.ca

William Johnston is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. His intellectual interests include social class and social history.
william.johnston@ualberta.ca

Harvey Krahn is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. His research and teaching interests lie in the area of work and education, immigration studies and political sociology.
hkrahn@ualberta.ca

Howard Ramos is Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University. He has published on transnational human rights reporting, Canadian identity, and Aboriginal mobilization.
howard.ramos@dal.ca

David Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University. His research interests focus on the sociology of mass media and political sociology. In relation to the mass media, his research has been rooted in both political economy and cultural studies. The topics of this research have included discourses on communication technologies, new analysis, Canadian broadcasting policy, and Canadian awards shows.
youngd@mcmaster.ca