Susan Machum
BA Hons. (St. Thomas), MA (Dalhousie), PHD (University of Edinburgh)
Professor
Dr. Machum is currently the Dean of the Social Sciences and has been a full-time, STU faculty member in the Sociology Department since January 2001. This year she is also the Acting Director of the School of Social Work. Her teaching and research interests are in social justice, social inequality, work, family, food systems, and rural-urban dynamics. For ten-years she held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Rural Social Justice, during which time she took an active role in promoting healthy rural communities and food production systems that supported family farming.