María Sigríður Finnsdóttir, PhD Sociologist & HSS Specialist at the University of Alberta

I am also a part of the national HSS team at Digital Research Alliance of Canada and as part of that work I am involved in national research activity and advocacy focused on promoting social science and humanities research and computation along with other HSS specialists at universities across the country.

I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto, awarded in 2024. I am a mixed methods researcher with a substantive interest in women’s representation and gendered inequality in far-right politics. My current research takes up questions of political communication and gender in populist and far-right politics in Canada and in Western Europe using a variety of computational methods and tools.

I am currently co-lead on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, "Constellation of Truths: Mapping (Un)civil Society’s Knowledge Production in Diverse Border Regions," interrogating the epistemic struggles between activist groups in contentious border regions.