Dr. Judith Grant is the author of Charting Women’s Journeys: From Addiction to Recovery, due to be released in March 2008 through Lexington Books. She also teaches at the University Of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. She has taught sociology and criminology courses in Canada and the United States for the past 15 years.
With research interests in drugs and gender, women and addiction/recovery, violence against women, public policy issues, criminology and qualitative research methods, Dr. Grant’s international work has taken her to the Philippines and Sri Lanka, documenting gender analysis reports for Canadian agencies. She has traveled to Russia to present research on Canadian laws concerning domestic violence.
Grant’s current research projects focus on men’s stories of addiction and recovery in the Ozarks.
Grant received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She obtained her M.A. from the University of Toronto and her B.A. from the University of New Brunswick.