Robert J.
Brym
Robert Brym’s main areas of research
are political sociology, race and ethnic relations, and the sociology
of culture. Most of his research has focused on Russia and Canada.
His publications include From Culture to Power: The Sociology of
English Canada (Oxford University Press, 1989), The Jews of
Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk (New York University Press, 1994) and
New Society, 3rd ed. (Harcourt Canada, 2001), Harcourt Canada’s
leading introductory sociology textbook. From 1986-89, Robert served
as Editor of the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
(the journal of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association)
and from 1992-97 as Editor of Current Sociology (the journal
of the International Sociological Association). In 1995 he won the
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association’s Outstanding
Contribution Award. With Rhonda Lenton, he recently co-authored
Love Online: A Report on Digital Dating in
Canada, sponsored by MSN.CA. He is currently involved in two
research projects. As part of an international team of more than 100
sociologists and political scientists centered at the University of
Michigan, he is analyzing the third wave of the World Values Survey.
With sociologists at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of
Science, he is conducting a study of recruitment and mobility in the
Russian civil service. Robert has taught introductory sociology many
times and in 1993 received an award for undergraduate teaching excellence
at the University of Toronto.
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