Mariana Valverde
Contents
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
Occupation
Academic
Notable Achievements
FRSC
Description
Criminologist and Sociologist. Professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Research interests are urban law and governance (historically and in the present) and, at the theoretical level, Foucault, sexuality studies, theories of spatiotemporality, and actor-network theory. Appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2006). A founder of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Received the Law and Society Association’s Harry J. Kalven Jr. Award in recognition of “empirical scholarship that has contributed most effectively to the advancement of research in law and society.” She has twice won the Association’s Herbert Jacobs Book Prize for a major contribution to socio-legal scholarship: in 2000 for 'Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom' (1998) and again in 2013 for 'Everyday Law on the Streets: City Governance in an Age of Diversity' (2012).
