Shelley Z. Reuter, PhD

Shelley Z. Reuter was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in 2003, received tenure and promotion to Associate in 2007, and promotion to Professor in 2019. Prior to joining Concordia University, she was a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at Queen’s University, where she also earned her PhD (2001). She is the author of Testing Fate: Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to be Responsible (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), Narrating Social Order: Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification (University of Toronto Press, 2007) and a joint editor, with Katja Neves-Graça, of a special issue on Genes and Society of the Canadian Review of Sociology (2007). She has also published articles in Economy & Society, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Women’s Health & Urban Life, Sociology of Health & Illness, and Women's Studies International Forum. Her current projects include a qualitative study of  Canadian campus health clinic wellness promotion messaging. She is also writing a book on her mother's holocaust survival. Dr. Reuter teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including Contemporary Theory (402), Contemporary Feminist Thought (476), Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medicine (321 & 648), Motherhood and Childlessness (478) and, as the Honours Sociology Advisor, she also teaches the Honours Seminar (409).