Dr. Julianne DiSanto

Co-Investigator

Dr. Julianne DiSanto is a critical sociologist who brings an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and anti-oppressive lens to her work on community safety.  Dr. DiSanto has been part of the Sheridan College community since 2013 and joined the School of Public Safety in 2017 after completing her Ph.D. at York University.  Since then, she has developed degree-level, learner-centred curricula in community safety for the following courses, The Sociology of Community, Introduction to Criminology, Making Others: The Sociology of Deviance, Community Engagement and Social Justice, The Construction of Truth: New Media and Technology, and Gender and Violence (co-developer). Key areas of interest include knowledge production and mobilization; qualitative methods; difference and deviance; social justice and anti-oppression; discourse and representation; and epistemology and ways of knowing. Dr. DiSanto is a co-investigator on the Community Ideas Factory: The Life Skills Project and was a member of the Research EDI Advisory Committee and Self-Assessment Team at Sheridan College as part of the Tri-Agency’s Dimensions pilot program.