Christopher J. Schneider, PhD (Arizona State University), is professor of sociology at Brandon University. His research and publications have focused largely on information technologies and related changes to police work. Dr. Schneider has written or collaborated on eight books and published over 100 scholarly papers and essays. He is the author of Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media, 2ed (Lexington Books, 2024). Other recent books include Doing Public Scholarship: A Practical Guide to Media Engagement (Routledge, 2024) and Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo (coauthored with Stacey Hannem) (University of Regina Press, 2022).
Defining Sexual Misconduct received the 2024 Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award, an Honourable Mention for the 2023 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, and was shortlisted in The Hill Times Best Books of 2022. Dr. Schneider has received award recognition for his research, teaching, service, and public scholarship. More recently, he is the 2024 recipient of Brandon University’s Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Community Service and the 2022 recipient of Brandon University’s Senate Award for Excellence in Research. A frequent contributor to media, his work has appeared in hundreds of news segments and reports, including The New York Times and The Washinton Post. Dr. Schneider has also published dozens of opinion pieces, which have appeared in USA Today, and The Toronto Star, among other media outlets. He was endowed chair of criminology and criminal justice at St. Thomas University in the spring of 2019 and public visiting scholar at Wilfrid Laurier University in the fall 2016. His website is www.chrisschneider.org
