Dr. Robin Willey
Associate Professor, Sociology
Education
PhD, 2017, Sociology, University of Alberta
MA, 2010, Sociology, University of Alberta
BA (Co-op with distinction), 2007, Sociology / Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge
Teaching Areas
Sociology of Religion; Social Theory; The Family; New Religious Movements; Gender & Sexuality
Research Interests
Progressive movements in Canadian Evangelicalism; Art and social change in religious communities; Frontier and liminal masculinities in Alberta; Contemporary Christian sexuality; Faith-based Humanitarianism
Courses Taught
Sociology 100 (Sociological Concepts and Perspectives), 102 (Social Problems), 224 (Deviance and Conformity), 271 (The Family), 332 (The Development of Sociology I), 333 (The Development of Sociology II), 376 (The Sociology of Religion), 471 (Sociological Analysis: The Family), and 472 (Family and Society).
Selected Publications
Articles
With Amy Kaler, & John Parkins. (2024) 鈥溾�楪od鈥檚 Story鈥� as ideological determinant in faith-based cosmopolitanism.鈥� Journal of Contemporary Religion. 39(1), 107鈥�128.
With Kassandra Landry. (2022). 鈥溾�楥amp Syndrome鈥�: Exploring Frontier Masculinity in Alberta鈥檚 Oil Production Culture.鈥� NORMA, DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2022.2139513
With Paul Joosse (2020). 鈥淕ender and Charismatic Power.鈥� Theory and Society. As found at on May 25, 2020
With Amy Kaler & John Parkins. (2019). 鈥淎lmost at Home in South Sudan: International Christian Humanitarians and the Theopolitics of Recognition.鈥� Canadian Journal of Sociology. 44(2): 137-164.
(2019). 鈥淪hifting the Sacred: Rob Bell and the Postconservative Turn.鈥� Critical Research on Religion, 7 (1): 80-99.
(2016). 鈥淟iminal Practice: Pierre Bourdieu, Madness, and Religion.鈥� Social Compass. 63 (1): 125-141.
(2013). 鈥淭he Evangelical Sexual Marketplace: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Development, Exchange, and Conversion of Erotic Capital in an Evangelical Church.鈥� The Canadian Journal of Family and Youth. 22 (1) as found at on May 8, 2013.
With Stephen Kent. (2013). 鈥淪ects, Cults, and the Attack on Jurisprudence.鈥� Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. 14 as found at on May 29, 2013.
(2010). 鈥淏ecoming Data: Star Trek Wisdom and the Effects of Fieldwork on the Fieldworker.鈥� Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 22 (3) as found at on January 30, 2010.
Exhibition Catalogues
With Carolyn Jervis. (2022). Articles of Faith [Exhibition catalogue]. Edmonton, AB: John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery.