Rate My Professor Sandra Bucerius

Dr. Sandra Bucerius is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, where she holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair. She received her PhD from the University of Frankfurt in Germany in 2009. As an urban ethnographer and qualitative researcher, her work focuses on prisons, the victim-offender overlap, immigration and crime, radicalization, and the opioid crisis. She directs the Centre for Criminological Research and the University of Alberta Prison Project, which is Canada's largest mixed-methods study on life experiences in Canadian prisons and has involved interviews with over 800 prisoners and 170 staff members. Her research has been supported by grants including a SSHRC Partnership grant, and she maintains research agreements with Correctional Service Canada, Public Safety Canada, Justice Alberta, and police services in Edmonton and Calgary.

Dr. Bucerius is the author of the 2014 monograph Unwanted: Muslim Immigrants, Dignity, and Drug Dealing, published by Oxford University Press, and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration (2014) and the Oxford Handbook on Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. She serves as co-editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook series in Criminology and on the editorial advisory board of the journal Criminology. Her contributions have been recognized with the 2016 Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, the Faculty of Arts Research Award, and the Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award. She is an executive member and publication editor for the Canadian Research Network on Terrorism, Security and Society.