Rate My Professor Sandra Bucerius

Dr. Sandra Bucerius is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, where she holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair. She received her PhD from the University of Frankfurt in Germany in 2009. As an urban ethnographer and qualitative researcher, her work focuses on prisons, the victim-offender overlap, immigration and crime, radicalization, and the opioid crisis. She directs the Centre for Criminological Research and the University of Alberta Prison Project, which is Canada's largest mixed-methods study on life experiences in Canadian prisons and has involved interviews with over 800 prisoners and 170 staff members. Her research has been supported by grants including a SSHRC Partnership grant, and she maintains research agreements with Correctional Service Canada, Public Safety Canada, Justice Alberta, and police services in Edmonton and Calgary.