Professor, Sociology and Criminology

Office: STH 424
905-688-5550 x4054
iezeonu@brocku.ca

Education:
PhD, University of Toronto
MPhil, University of Cambridge
MA, University of Leeds
BSc, Anambra State University of Technology

Ifeanyi Ezeonu received a first-class honours degree in sociology from the Anambra State University of Technology (now, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria). He has graduate degrees from the University of Cambridge (International relations), the University of Leeds (development studies) and the University of Toronto (criminology and socio-legal studies). He was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society.

He has research interests and has published on market criminality, street gangs and violent armed groups, the sociology of energy and natural resources, and the deleterious effects of market rationality in Sub-Saharan Africa. His book, Market Criminology: State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry (Routledge, 2018), introduces the concept of market criminology which extends the interrogative circumference of criminology to accommodate the ravages of market forces in variegated forms of capitalism. Ifeanyi Ezeonu’s research works cover both North America and Sub-Saharan Africa.