About Dr. Christopher J. Schneider

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I am an award-winning full professor of sociology at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada. My research and publications have focused largely on information technologies and related changes to police work. I have written or collaborated on eight books and have published over 100 scholarly papers and essays. I have received award recognition for my research contributions and public service as well as more than a dozen teaching awards and related honours. 

My co-authored book (with Stacey Hannem) Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2022) received the 2024 Midwest Sociological Society's Distinguished Book Award in recognition of its substantive and original contributions to sociological understanding and an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Cooley Award, given for notable book in symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Defining Sexual Misconduct was shortlisted in The Hill Times Best Books of 2022. The book also informed a key change to Canadian military policy which removed “sexual misconduct” from military policy replacing it with the term “sexual assault.” 

I am the author of Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media, 2nd edition (Lexington Books, 2024). The first edition of Policing and Social Media reached No. 1 on Amazon's list of "Hot New Releases in Canadian Politics" and has received critical acclaim from scholars, activists, police practitioners, and journalists in media and in peer-reviewed academic journals. I have published on a range of substantive topics including, a co-authored research methods book (with 4,000+ citations) and papers, essays, and books that explore issues like police legitimacy and body cameras, crime, law, risk, riots and civil unrest, surveillance and technology matters, sexual misconduct, music culture, beard culture, mobile phones, celebrity, and public scholarship, to name a few.

My writing, research, and commentary have appeared in hundreds of news reports around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, NBC News, ProPublica, Chicago's WGN-TV, and CBC's The National. I have published dozens of opinion pieces, which have appeared in USA Today, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, among other media outlets. I previously held the Endowed Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice (spring term 2019) at St. Thomas University and the Public Visiting Scholar position at Wilfrid Laurier University (fall term 2016). I currently sit on the Brandon, MB John Howard Society Board of Directors.

I originally hail from Chicago ✶✶✶✶ and have an English bulldog named Deuce and an American bulldog named Luci.

For media inquiries and speaking engagements please contact me via email.