Rigakos, George S.
Professor of the Political Economy of Policing
- B.A. (Toronto), B.Soc.Sc. (Ottawa), M.A. (Simon Fraser), Ph.D. (York)
- Email Rigakos, George S.
- 613-520-2600 ext 3683
Current Research
Pacification; The political economy of public and private policing; 19th century police science
Teaching Interests
Policing and social surveillance; Police and capital; Political economy.
Recent Supervisions
2019 PhD. Caglar Dolek “Thieves, 岹ı, and Revolutionaries on the Margin: A Social History of the Police in the Altındağ Slums in Ankara, Turkey (1920s-1970s)”
2017 M.A. Kevin Brunet “The Power of Perspective: A Review of the Adoption of Police Body Worn Cameras”
2017 PhD. Gulden Ozcan “Orchestrating the Public: A Contribution to the Critique of Police Power”
2017 M.A. Garret Halas “Securing the Economy and Economizing Security: An Analysis of Material Influences Underpinning Canada’s Position on the Israel-Palestine Conflict”
2016 M.A. David Meinen “Pacification Through Humanitarian Aid: Examining Canada’s Security-Development Role in Haiti”
Publications
Online articles: .
Also: ; Golden Dawn and the “Dark Forces” in (2015); Greece’s Right-Wing Government is Massively Expanding Police Powers in (2021); and special issue of (2013).
Books, Reports and Anthologies:
University Baseball
- Since 2016, ڴǰ
- Since 2021, Founding President of of Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
- 2016. published in Canadian Baseball Network
- 2019. with Mitchell Thompson. in Baseball Research Journal 48(2): 16-23