James Côté is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, where he has taught since the early 80s. In addition to Ivory Tower Blues, he has also published numerous journal articles on student experiences with higher education. Research interests overlapping with higher education include the sociology of youth (Critical Youth Studies, Pearson Education, 2006), and the social psychology of identity (Identity Formation, Agency, and Culture, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002). These interests dovetail in a critique of contemporary culture where forms of human development are arrested or misdirected by special interests and outmoded institutions that undermine both people’s potentials to reach their full developmental capacities and the democratic potentials for the society as a whole.
Côté manages this site and posts the weekly blogs.
Anton L. Allahar is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, and has held visiting professorships in Cuba, Russia, Jamaica, and Fiji. His main areas of interest are economic and political sociology (ethnicity, class and nationalism) of the Caribbean and he has authored or co-authored about 8 books, edited another 4, and published over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters. Professor Allahar has also won 7 major teaching awards (national, provincial and university-wide), and was recently elected President of the Caribbean Studies Association, an international body of Caribbean intellectuals.