Evangelia (Evie) Tastsoglou, Professor, Department of Sociology, cross-appointed in the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University. She is also an Adjunct Professor of the Panteion University, Athens, Greece (2018-present); a Fellow of the Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence (JMEUCE), Dalhousie University (2018-present); and a Research Fellow of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick (2018-present). She was the recipient of the Saint Mary’s University President’s Award for Excellence in Research (2020).
Education: Dr. Tastsoglou has been educated in Greece (Law Degree; 1981, School of Law, Division of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens); the United States (MA-Ph.D, Combined Degree, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 1990); and Canada (LLM, Law School, Dalhousie University, 2017)
Research and Publications: With sociological and legal training Dr. Tastsoglou has many years of expertise in working with gender and immigrant women in Canada and internationally. As founder and leader of the Gender Domain of the Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence (2003-2013) she led multiple projects on various aspects of migration with a gender-based and intersectional analysis in Atlantic Canada. Her research, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, is on women, gender and various aspects of international migration; Canadian immigration and integration; violence, citizenship, transnationalism and diasporas. She frequently engages with government and non-governmental organizations in consultative and advisory capacities.
She is currently the PI of the Canadian team of researchers in the multi-year CIHR-funded project “Violence against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Response”, part of an international project funded by the Gender-Net Plus Cofund.
Teaching: Dr. Tastsoglou has been teaching in recent years: Gender and International Migration; Women, Gender and Development; Classical Sociological Theory; Immigration Law and Policy Practicum; Contemporary Sociological Theory; Sociological Theory; Forced Migration and Refugees; Gender, Violence and Migration.
Service Highlights: She has served as president of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (2018-2022); president of RC 32 (the Research Committee on Women in Society) of the International Sociological Association (2010-2014), elected member of the International Sociological Association’s Research Council (2014-2018), chairperson of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Saint Mary’s University (2006-2012), and International Development Studies Coordinator (2017-2021).
http://www.smu.ca/academics/departments/sc-faculty-staff-profiles-evangelia.html.
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sociology/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1420124/full