Faculty
Martin Blais
Martin Blais, Ph.D. (Sociology) is a full professor in the Department of Sexology at the Université du Québec à Montréal and holds the Research Chair on Sexual Diversity and Gender Plurality. He is interested in intimacy, conjugality, sexual diversity and gender plurality. His research focuses more specifically on the forms of social inclusion and exclusion that affect LGBTQ+ people and influence their social inclusion and well-being.
Julie Lavigne
Julie Lavigne is an art historian and full professor in the Department of Sexology at UQÀM. Currently director of undergraduate programs in sexology, she is a faculty member of the Quebec Network for Feminist Studies and the Feminist Studies and Research Institute. Her research focuses on the representation of sexuality in contemporary art, television series and feminist and queer pornography. Her theoretical and thematic fields revolve around sexual scripts, sexual agentivity and feminist and queer theories of sexuality. She published, in 2014, La traversée de la pornographie : Politique et érotisme dans l’art féministe, by éditions du Remue-ménage . She also co-edited an issue of Recherches Féministes on Femmes et pouvoir érotique. Finally, her articles have been published in journals such as Glad!, Feminist Media Studies, Genre, sexualité & société, Recherches Féministes, Les Ateliers de l’éthique, Symposium: Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale and others.
Débora Krischke Leitao
Débora Krischke Leitão is a professor in the Department of Sociology at UQAM and holds a PhD in social anthropology. As a specialist in digital cultures, she studies gender identities, sexuality, the body, consumption, and forms of online intimacy.
Her recent research focuses on fatphobia in the context of the pandemic, digital drag practices, and online sociability. She is the author of Anthropologie du numérique (2023), a key work on the methods and issues of virtual fields. Her work is distinguished by an interdisciplinary approach, at the crossroads of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.
Vissého Adjiwanou
Vissého Adjiwanou is an associate professor of demography and quantitative methods in the Department of Sociology at UQAM and an associate professor at the University of Montreal. He holds a PhD in demography and specialises in family dynamics, gender inequalities, reproductive health and fertility, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
His recent work focuses on family recomposition, the role of step-parents, infant mortality, and the integration of African immigrants in Canada. He combines a classical demographic approach with computational methods (big data, machine learning).
Carl Rodrigue
Carl Rodrigue is an assistant professor in the Department of Sexualities, Relationships, and Families (SRF) at St. Jerome’s University (Waterloo, Ontario).
With a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree in sexology, he has developed interdisciplinary expertise in the study of diversity, functioning and development of non-marital relational and sexual configurations (e.g., one-night stands, friends with benefits, ex-partners).
He is currently working on developing a theory on the complexity of relational trajectories, highlighting the intersections between various relational domains such as sexuality, friendship, love, and family.