He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Sociology. He lectures and publishes in the sociology of education, sociological theory, the sociology of religion and the sociology of men and masculinities. Dr. Christy is a popular lecturer and the Canadian news magazine Macleans has named him a key lecturer at WLU in sociology. He has delivered academic papers at Cambridge University UK, the American University of Paris Paris, the University of California Los Angeles, ATINER Athens Greece, and Universidad de Granada Spain.