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. 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.