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Dana Sawchuk

Professor, Sociology
dsawchuk@wlu.ca
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Arts
Dana Sawchuk is an expert is the sociology of aging/aging studies. She specializes in aging and work, particularly the areas of late-career job loss and early retirement among white-collar professional women. She also maintains an interest in aging and the print media and in aging and activism."

Areas of Expertise

  • Gerontology and Aging
  • Religion

Biography

I received my PhD from the interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion, at the University of Toronto, in 2001. My MA is from the University of Winnipeg (1992). I joined the Department of Sociology as a full-time faculty member in 2001.

I am currently working on a research study, with Dr. Annette Nierobisz of Carleton College, that seeks to understand the factors that lead senior-level white-collar women to leave their jobs at mid-career. This project builds upon our research on job loss among older adults, which was published in our recent book, American Idle: Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era (Rutgers, 2025).

Alongside this research, I am very interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and in experimenting with innovative ways to engage students in the undergraduate classroom.

Languages

  • English

  • Spanish

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