EDUCATION
PhD, Sociology
University of Toronto
2021 – Present
HBA, Sociology and Women & Gender Studies
University of Toronto
2021
Diploma, Photographic Technology
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
2010
DISSERTATION (IN PROGRESS)
Oil and Beef: Labour in a Time of Climate Crisis
Univ. of Toronto Committee: Dr. Ellen Berrey and Dr. Josée Johnston (co-chairs), Dr. Fedor Dokshin
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
Environmental Sociology; Work, Stratification, and Markets
PUBLICATIONS
Berrey, Ellen, Alex Hanna, Nathan Kim, and Kristen Bass. 2024. “U.S. and Canadian Higher Education Protests and University and Police Responses, 2012 to 2018.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 10:1-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231241297447
Bass, Kristen. 2024. “Strike versus Boycott: Discursive Repertoires and Contention in the 2012 Quebec Student Strike.” Social Movement Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2024.2345160.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Bass, Kristen. 2026. “Imaginaries of Change: Media Framing of Workers, the Environment, and Energy Transition in the Canadian Petroleum Industry.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Sociological Association, New York, NY, August 11. [Paper title revised to: “Jobs and Environment: Media Framing of Alberta Oil and Gas Workers, their jobs, and Canada’s ‘Just Transition’ Legislation”]
Bass, Kristen. 2024. “The Use of Emotion in Media Framing of an Energy Transition in Canada’s Petroleum Industry.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, QC, August 12.
Bass, Kristen. 2021. “Étudiants en grève: Cultural Repertoires of Labour Organizing in the 2012 Quebec Student Strikes.”
Paper presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Sociological Association, virtual due to COVID-19, May 31. [Winner of the ‘Best Student Paper’ award from the Political Sociology and Social Movements Research Cluster]
Berrey, Ellen, Fatima Al-Saadie, Kristen Bass, Matthew Halsall, Ariel Minnott, and Henry Rhyu. 2019 “When A Conspiracy Theory Comes to Town: The Policy Impacts of the Right-Wing Populist Movement against Sustainability Planning.” Paper presented at the Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice & Action Conference. Mississauga, ON, October 18.
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, & HONOURS
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2023-2027
Program Summer Level Fellowship
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2023
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2021-2022
Sociology Graduate Admission Merit Award
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2021
Governor General’s Silver Medal Nominee
University of Toronto
2021
Dean’s List Scholar
University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science
2018 – 2021
Jacob and Jenny Rosenberg Scholarship
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2021
E.J. Urwick Bursary
University of Toronto, Department of Sociology
2019
Jackman Scholar
University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Institute
2019
City of Toronto Women’s Studies Scholarship
University of Toronto, Women & Gender Studies Institute
2018
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