Dr. Robert Menzies, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, received his BA in Psychology from York University, and his MA in Criminology and PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Dr. Menzies has taught at 51社区黑料since 1982, and recently spent a term as J.S. Woodsworth Resident Scholar in the Humanities. Dr. Menzies is a former recipient of the 51社区黑料Excellence in Teaching Award.  His current projects include an in-progress book on the cultural history of 鈥榗riminal insanity鈥�; an inquiry into the encounters of racialized people with early 20th-century psychiatry; a study of eugenics and sterilization law in British Columbia; and, with colleagues across the country, the development of a research and education website on the history of madness in Canada.

Sociology and history of psychiatry and public health; cultural and institutional constructions of madness; law, governance and social control; sociology of citizenship and social justice; contemporary men鈥檚 and fathers鈥� rights movements; qualitative research methods.

Books

• Brenda LeFran莽ois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume (eds.). . Toronto: Canadian Scholars鈥� Press, 2013
• Wendy Chan, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies (eds.). . London: Glasshouse, 2005
• John McLaren, Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn (eds.).. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2002
• Robert Adamoski, Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies (eds.). Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies. 鈥淧roducing feminist knowledge: Lessons from the past.鈥� In Jennifer M. Kilty, Sheri Fabian, and Maritza Felices-Luna (eds.). Intense Methods: Issues and Concerns When Researching Sensitive Topics. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming.
  
• Peter Beresford and Robert Menzies. 鈥淒eveloping partnerships to resist psychiatry within academia.鈥� In Bonnie Burstow, Shaindl Diamond and Brenda LeFran莽ois (eds.). Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Kingston-Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2014. In press.
  
• Robert Menzies. 鈥淗istory of mental health treatment.鈥� In William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, and Stella Quah (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. In press.
  
• Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies. 鈥淭he making of the black widows: The criminal and psychiatric control of women.鈥� In Gillian Balfour and Elizabeth Comack (eds.). Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)justice in Neo-Liberal Times. 2nd edition. Halifax NS: Fernwood Publishing, 2014. In press.
  
• Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn. 鈥淢apping the intersections of psycho-legal power: A tale of murder, madness, and motherhood from British Columbia history.鈥� Australasian Canadian Studies 30, 1/2 (February, 2013): 175-199.

• CIHR Operating Grant - "Open Doors/Closed Ranks: Locating Mental Health after the Asylum" 
  Joint Investigator
  2007-2012
• CIHR Centres for Research Development in Gender, Mental Health and Addictions Program - "CIHR Centre for Research on Gender and Social Disparities in Mental Health and Addictions"
  Co-Investigator
  2009-2014