Sessional Lecturer - CRI494H1 - Adv. Topics in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies-EMERGENCY POSTING

Date Posted: 12/12/2024
Req ID: 41065
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Ctr of Criminology
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Description:

Course Number and Title: CRI494H1 - Advanced Topics in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (Topics: Senses of Justice)

Course description: This is a fourth year-level seminar that focuses on the senses of justice. The world today is characterized by enormous forms of political, social, economic, and other kinds of violence committed in conflict and peace times. In the aftermath of such violence, survivors grapple with the consequences of such harm that impact on their lives for a long time. Society must put in place systems, mechanisms, and processes to deliver justice and reduce the impact of violence on survivors, their families, and communities. In this course we will unpack the meanings of justice from the lens of people who survive violence. In particular, the course delves into understanding survivor’s senses of justice after conflict-related violence. Justice is understood in this course as something that is pluralistic and conceptualized by survivors as relational, holistic, and lived in the everyday. This sense of justice is called ‘lived justice.’ Justice as lived emanates from an in-depth study of women who survived wartime sexual violence in northern Uganda. Using this research as a foundation, the course has three parts. Part 1 provides background and experiences of human rights violations in various around the world. Part 2 introduces learners to emblematic notions and mechanisms of justice (transitional, restorative, traditional & transformative). Part 3 discusses the senses of justice as articulated by survivors in northern Uganda alongside specific case studies from other parts of the world. This will include place-based, relationship-based, needs-based, and compensation-based senses of justice.

Estimated course enrolment: 30

Estimated TA support: none

Class Schedule: FR:13:00-15:00 (In-Person)

Sessional dates: Jan. 1, 2025 - April 30, 2025

Salary:

• Sessional Lecturer I $9,457.90

• Sessional Lecturer I - Long Term $9,930.79

• Sessional Lecturer II $10,121.77

• Sessional Lecturer III $10,362.76

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Minimum qualifications: PhD in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences and related fields such as human rights, transitional justice, gender and women's studies, political science, sociology and conflict studies. 

Preferred qualifications: Candidates must have experience teaching courses on senses of justice, reparations, human rights and conflict-related violence and society at graduate and undergraduate levels. 

Description of duties: The design, preparation and delivery of course content in-class, including teaching lectures or seminars; creation of courseware; the development and administration of assignments, tests and examinations; supervising TAs; the marking and grading of student work, and the submission of grades to the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies in accordance with established policies.

Application instructions: Applicants must submit Curriculum Vitae and the CUPE 3902 (Unit 3) Employment Application Form located at: https://uoft.me/CUPE-3902-Unit-3-Application-Form to the attention of:

Scot Wortley Professor; Undergraduate Coordinator
Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
Canadiana Gallery, Second Floor
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West
Email: Meng Xiao meng.xiao@utoronto.ca.

Closing Date: 12/15/2024, 11:59PM EDT
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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement. 

 It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.  

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.