He joined the department in 2014. He teaches courses in quantitative methods, social policy and political sociology. He received his B.A. (2003) and M.A. (2004) in sociology from McGill University and his PhD (2012) in sociology from the University of Washington. In 2013-2014, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Professor Pettinicchio’s research interests include political sociology, social policy and social movements/collective action. He has recently published in Law and Policy, British Journal of Social Psychology, Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, and Comparative Sociology. Although some of his work focuses on the U.S., he has published several papers that are Canadian (e.g., same-sex marriage, ethnic nationalism) and international (e.g. religion and crime, cross-national political participation) in focus.