Associate Professor, Sociology

Office: STH 401
905-688-5550 x3460
mraddon@brocku.ca

Education:
PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, McMaster University

Mary-Beth Raddon researches topics of money and finance from the vantage point of social history, political economy and culture. She is especially interested in economic institutions, such as inheritance, charity, philanthropy, social welfare, households and cooperatives, whose primary logic is not market exchange. She has written a book on community currencies, which explores how new local exchange networks expose existing gendered patterns of reciprocity, work and shopping. Mary-Beth also researches on civic participation, social activism, and community-based research. These interests dovetail with her work in service-learning, a method of teaching that combines formal learning with community engagement. Areas of supervision include economic sociology and critical pedagogy.