Dean Curran

Dean Curran is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He has previous degrees in economics, the philosophy of the social sciences, and a PhD in sociology. His research areas include the environment, digital and financial risk, social theory, and inequalities. He has publications in Big Data & Society, the British Journal of Sociology, Economy and Society, Antipode, Theory, Culture, and Society, Urban Studies, European Journal of Social Theory and a (2016) book with Palgrave Macmillan, Risk, Power and Inequality in the 21st Century. Most recently, he has edited the Handbook on Risk and Inequality (Elgar, 2022).