2023 - Dr. Kristi Allain

Department of Sociology
BA (Trent), MA (Queen's) PhD (Trent)

Dr. Kristi Allain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Canada Research Chair in Physical Culture and Social Life. Her scholarly work examines physical culture and its relationships with Canadian national identity, marginalization, and privilege. It explores the various ways that power operates within physical culture and has a particular focus on how individuals construct, understand, and challenge expressions of gender, ethnicity, race, age, and nation. Her scholarly work has been prodigious as she has published 13 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and two reports in recent years, and has three articles and four manuscripts in development or review. Her work has proposed new theoretical frameworks for understanding hockey masculinity and the marginalization of older athletes and is often cited by other scholars. She is committed to communicating her scholarship to wider audiences including scholars, policymakers, and the public. As such, she speaks to the media on subjects such as hockey, curling, and national identity, and has been interviewed by outlets such as The Hockey News, The Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has recently been interviewed by major media outlets in Canada, the UK, and Germany on the Hockey Canada sexual assault cover-up.