Positions
Education
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- Sociology
Graduate Studies
- Sociology, MA
- Education, MEd/PHD Program
- Master of Education
- PhD in Education (Educational Sustainability)
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
- 2028/29
Research
Research Interests
- Postsecondary Educational Choices
- Labour Market Outcomes
- School-to-work Transitions
- High School Pathways and Outcomes
- Institutional Stratification and Rankings
- School Discipline Practices
- Poverty
- Student Achievement
- Transfer and Mobility
- Literacy and Skills
- Cross-national Comparisons
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Book Chapters
Hillier, Cathlene, and David Zarifa. 2024. “The Landscape of Educational Inequalities in Northern and Rural Locations in Canada.” In Diversity and Equity in Canadian Schools: Fostering Human Flourishing, edited by Cathlene Hillier and Wendy Bokhorst-Heng. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press.
Zarifa, David, Cathlene Hillier, and Darcy Hango. 2022. “Location Matters: Education and Employment Inequalities in Northern and Rural Canada.” In Social Inequality in Canada, Seventh Edition, edited by Monica Hwang, Edward Grabb, and Jeffrey G. Reitz. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Seward, Brad, David Walters, and David Zarifa. 2016. “Education-Job Mismatch among Disabled Postsecondary Graduates” in The Sociology of Education in Canada: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives, edited by Wolfgang Lehmann, Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
Andersen, Robert and David Zarifa. 2012. “Academic Performance and Expectations of Canadian Students: The Role of School Disciplinary Climate” in Improving Learning Environments in School: Lessons from Abroad, edited by Richard Arum and Melissa Velez. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Zarifa, David. 2011. “Chapter 2: International Comparative Profiles of Adult Literacy” in Literacy for Life: Further Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL). Ottawa and Paris: Statistics Canada and the OECD.
Zarifa, David and Simone Greenberg. 2011. “Chapter 3: Skills and Outcomes” in Literacy for Life: Further Results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL). Ottawa and Paris: Statistics Canada and the OECD.
Davies, Scott and David Zarifa. 2009. “Institutional Theory and the Weberian Tradition” in Canadian Perspectives on the Sociology of Education, edited by Cynthia Rasky-Levine. Toronto: Oxford University Press.