(Sociology & Social Policy, June 2004)
Thesis Title: Differences Matter: The Impact of Social Policy on the Working Poor in Canada and the U.S.
Committee: Katherine Newman (chair), Mary C. Waters, William Julius Wilson, and Jeffrey Reitz
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Current Position: Professor of Social Policy, Joint Appointment, School of Public Policy & Governance, RBC Chair in Applied Social Work Research, University of Toronto
Dr. Zuberi is RBC Chair and Professor of Social Policy at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Prior to his appointment at the University of Toronto, he was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Research Fellow at Harvard University and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. In 2015, he was elected member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He is currently completing research projects on social policy and urban poverty, health policy, education, immigrant access to services and settlement experiences, reducing hospital-acquired infection rates and hospital employment