Patricia Marchak

Wall Associate

Title

Professor

Department/School

Department of Sociology

Faculty

Arts

University

UBC

Geographic Location

Canada

Dr. Marchak has a number of areas of research interest including: sociology of resource industries, principally forestry and fisheries; state terrorism and ideologies, primarily in the South American context; political economic theory and political ideologies related to social structure; environmental issues and issues of sustainability. Dr. Marchak’s book, God’s Assassins: State Terrorism in the 1970s in Argentina (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999), was widely and favourably reviewed.

Primary Recipient Awards

Patricia Marchak – Distinguished Scholars in Residence – 2000
Dr. Marchak’s Institute project was the workshop entitled “Truth, Justice, Accountability and Reconciliation in Societies Emerging from Crimes against Humanity” held October 13-14, 2000. The workshop brought together leading researchers and practitioners in the field to consider the emergence of, and implications of, new models for achieving justice and reconciliation, as in the case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.