Heidi Rimke
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9101
Office: 5L28
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: h.rimke@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Dr. Heidi Rimke is a Winnipeg-born sociologist and criminologist with nearly 20 years of experience at the University of Winnipeg, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Acting Coordinator of Disability Studies. She returned to her hometown after completing her PhD in Ottawa in 2005. Her social scientific expertise focuses on health, wellness, illness, disability, and death, as well as criminality and deviance in historical and contemporary contexts. Her research encompasses the social determinants of health, medicalization, therapeutic cultures, public safety, and public health systems. She also examines workplace health and safety such as psychological harm as well as post-secondary education quality control problems and the myth of meritocracy in the neoliberal era.
Her sociological and criminological research was prominently featured in the 2019 documentary, The Cannibal on Bus 1170: Rethinking Moral Panics.
Professor Rimke offers courses in sociological theory, criminological theory, medical sociology, mental health and illness, the sociology of deviance, and the sociology and cultural studies of religion, spirituality, and the afterlife.
A recipient of numerous awards and research grants, including support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Dr. Rimke has published widely and has been invited to present her findings locally, nationally, and internationally. She has taught in Criminology, Sociology and Anthropology Departments at various universities since 1995, she is a member of several editorial boards, and she regularly serves as a peer reviewer for academic journals, publishers, funding agencies, and post-secondary institutions.
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For a short biography see Giving Back to the Past.