Mariana Valverde

Mariana Valverde
FRSC
Nationality Canadian
Academic background
Education Brock University (BA)
York University (MA, PhD)
Thesis French Romantic socialism and the critique of political economy
Academic work
Discipline Criminologist, sociologist
Sub-discipline Sociology of law
Institutions Trent University
York University
University of Toronto
Website http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/marianavalverde/

Mariana Valverde FRSC is a Canadian criminologist and sociologist. She is currently a professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of law.[1] She is also an occasional contributor to Spacing magazine.[2]

In 2000 Mariana Valverde won the Herbert Jacob book prize from the Law and Society Association for her book Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 1998).[3]

Major Works

  • Valverde, Mariana. (1991). The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1880s-1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Valverde, Mariana. (1998). Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Valverde, Mariana. (2003). Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge. Princeton University Press.
  • Valverde, Mariana. (2006). Law and Order: Signs, Meanings, Myths. Routledge.
  • Valverde, Mariana. (2012). Everyday law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity. Chicago University Press.

References

  1. ↑ Faculty list, Centre of Criminology. University of Toronto. Archived February 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ http://spacing.ca/national/author/marianavalverde/
  3. ↑ Winners of the Herbert Jacob book prize. Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. The Law and Society Association. Accessed August 29, 2008.
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