Mariana Valverde

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

Mariana Valverde FRSC 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.

Major 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.

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