Julius Haag

Julius Haag, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Toronto), is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His areas of interest include policing, youth justice, racialization, ethnicity, criminalization, terrorism, and teaching and learning. His research draws on urban sociology, critical race theory, and cultural criminology to explore the individual and community-level impacts of policing and criminalization on young people from racialized and marginalized backgrounds. In particular, his research has focused on the lived experiences of young people from the Afro-Caribbean community.

Professor Haag’s ongoing criminological research agenda employs qualitative methods in examining how young people navigate community-level violence and forms of hyper-surveillance by both peers and the police. He is also interested in the growing role of social media in both promulgating and intensifying real-world conflicts. His research interests related to teaching and learning focus on the experiences of racialized students with post-secondary education, including experiences with campus life, strategies for engagement and retention, and effective pedagogical practices. He is currently involved in a collaborative study of young people’s experiences with gun violence in the Greater Toronto Area, led by Julian Tanner, Scot Wortley, and Jooyoung Lee.

Professor Haag currently teaches courses in policing, the sociology of crime, and domestic radicalization and terrorism.