We are proud to announce the publication of The Civil Sphere in Canada (University of British Columbia Press) co-edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and CCS Faculty Fellow, Mervyn Horgan (University of Guelph). We are grateful to support from Yale University and the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University Guelph. Special thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Connection Program and the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). Thanks to an ASPP Open Access Grant, Alexander and Horgan’s introductory chapter “Civil Sphere Theory and the Study of Canada” is freely available from the UBC Press website.
A book launch was held on June 3, 2025 at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences where many of the contributors gathered to celebrate.
Photos from the launch show (from L-R): Christopher Worden (PhD Candidate, University of Guelph), Dean Ray (Postdoctoral Fellow, York University), Thomas Kemple (Professor, University of British Columbia), Mervyn Horgan (CCS Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Guelph), Fuyuki Kurasawa (CCS Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor, York University), Daniel Kudla (Associate Professor, Memorial University), Matt Patterson (Associate Professor, University of Calgary), and Saara Liinamaa (Associate Professor, University of Guelph).
(Contributors not pictured: Bruna Brito (PhD candidate, University of Victoria), Brieg Capitaine, (Associate Professor, University of Ottawa), Jean-François Côté (CCS Faculty Fellow and Professor, Université de Quebec a Montreal), Laura Eramian (Associate Professor, Dalhousie University), Zachary Hyde, (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto), Lily Ivanova (CCS Pre-doctoral Fellow and PhD candidate, University of British Columbia), Peter Mallory (Associate Professor, St. Francis Xavier University), Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie (Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia-Okanagan), Elisabeth Rondinelli (Assistant Professor, Acadia University), Allyson Stokes (Associate Professor, Memorial University), and Galen Watts (Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo).