Julius Haag

Julius Haag

Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Sociology
  • Room:
    MN6256
  • Mailing Address:

    3359 Mississauga Road
    Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
    Canada

Julius Haag, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Toronto), is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity, criminalization, terrorism, and teaching and learning. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization on young people from racialized and marginalized backgrounds. In particular, his research has focused on the lived experiences of young people from the Afro-Caribbean community.

Professor Haag’s ongoing criminological research agenda employs qualitative methods in examining how young people navigate community-level violence and forms of hyper-surveillance by both peers and the police. He is also interested in the growing role of social media in both promulgating and intensifying real-world conflicts. His research interests related to teaching and learning focus on the experiences of racialized students with post-secondary education, including experiences with campus life, strategies for engagement and retention, and effective pedagogical practices. He is currently involved in a collaborative study of young people’s experiences with gun violence in the Greater Toronto Area, led by Julian Tanner, Scot Wortley, and Jooyoung Lee.

Professor Haag currently teaches courses in policing, the sociology of crime, and domestic radicalization and terrorism.

Education
M.A. (University of Toronto)
B.A. (University of Waterloo)

Publications

Recent Publications

Aukular, Harpreet and Julius Haag. 2018. “Youth at Risk and Diversity.” In Youth at Risk and Youth Justice: A Canadian Overview, edited by John Winterdyk & Russell Smandych. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press.

Haag, Julius and Scot Wortley. 2017. “Policing”. In Crossing Places: A Review of Urban Youth Policy 1960s-2010s, edited by Dirk Rodricks and Kathleen Gallagher. Toronto, ON: Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership Policy Series.

Other

Specialization
Policing; Youth Justice; Racialization; Ethnicity; Criminalization; Terrorism and Counterterrorism; Teaching and Learning
Current Courses
SOC109H5, SOC326H5, SOC379H5