Mariana Valverde Explained

Mariana Valverde
Nationality:	Canadian
Website:	http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/marianavalverde/
Education:	Brock University (BA) York University (MA, PhD)
Thesis Title:	French Romantic socialism and the critique of political economy
Discipline:	Criminologist, sociologist
Sub Discipline:	Sociology of law
Workplaces:	Trent University York University University of Toronto

Mariana Valverde is a Canadian criminologist and sociologist. She is currently a professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of law.^[1] She is also an occasional contributor to Spacing magazine.^[2]

In 2000 Mariana Valverde won the Herbert Jacob book prize from the Law and Society Association for her book Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 1998).^[3]

Mariana Valverde is the daughter of Spanish poet and philosopher José María Valverde.

Selected works

• Valverde, Mariana. (1991). The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1880s-1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Valverde, Mariana. (1998). Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Valverde, Mariana. (2003). Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge. Princeton University Press.
• Valverde, Mariana. (2006). Law and Order: Signs, Meanings, Myths. Routledge.
• Valverde, Mariana. (2012). Everyday law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity. Chicago University Press.

Notes and References

1. http://criminology.utoronto.ca/home/faculty_staff.html Faculty list, Centre of Criminology.
2. Web site: Mariana Valverde, Author at Spacing National.
3. http://www.lawandsociety.org/prizes/hj2_prize.htm Winners of the Herbert Jacob book prize.