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After receiving my PhD in Sociology from York University in 2002, I joined the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002.
I teach courses in the undergraduate program, including Introduction to Sociology, Gender and Development, Poverty and Social Inequality as well as courses in the sociology graduate program.
My research falls within the areas of political sociology, international development and gender, Mexican social policy and comparative urban policy and security in North America.
My initial research on conditional cash-transfer program examined Mexican social policy as an example of global poverty alleviation trends. My later research examined the ways in which poverty programs were experienced by poor women and how social policy was intertwined with practices of clientelism and citizenship.
My SSHRC Insight Development grant is a collaborative project with Paula Maurutto (University of Toronto), Laura Macdonald and Jill Wigle (Carleton University) which compares urban social policies and security Mexico City, New York City and Toronto.
Merit Award, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University (2017)
Merit Award, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University (2020)
Merit Award, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University (2023)
Merit Award, Faculty of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University (2025)
Donald F. Morgenson Award for Excellence in Internationalization (2025)
When not on sabbatical, I am willing to supervise or sit on the committees of graduate students in the areas of political sociology, gender and development, and social policy and security.
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Luccisano, L., B. Mehta and K. Spooner. “Building Bridges: Canadian Studies Across Borders.” Canada Watch, Robarts Center, Spring 2025
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Wigle, Jill, Laura Macdonald, Lucy Luccisano and Paula Maurutto, “Struggling over City-making: The Community Program for Neighborhood Improvement in Mexico City” Journal of Urban Affairs, Open Access, September, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2250025
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Luccisano, L and P. Maurutto, "Neoliberal Populism in Ontario: Premier Doug Ford’s Strategic Politics", NORTEAMÉRICA, Year 18, number 1, 405-433 Jan to June 2023 https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2023.1.624
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Luccisano, L & L. Macdonald “Childcare and Foreign Policy in Canada and Mexico: The Politics and Practices of Gender Mainstreaming” México y Canadá: 80 años tendiendo puentes Graciela Martínez-Zalce (ed), (Mexico City, La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Y el Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América Del Norte, 2025), pp 180-203.
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Luccisano, L. & P. Maurutto “Neoliberalismo y políticas conservadoras en Toronto” Canadá Y Sus Paradojas En El Siglo XXI: Tomo II in Graciela Martínez-Zalce and Camelia Tigau (ed), (Mexico City, La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Y el Centro de Investigaciones Sobre América Del Norte, 2022), pp 127-160
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Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald. “Guns and Butter: Social Policy, Semi-Clientelism and Efforts to Reduce Violence in Mexico”, in Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds), Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelism, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016).
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Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, “The impact of the global financial crisis on Mexican social policy”, in Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon and Gerard Boychuk (eds), After ’08 Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis, (University of British Columbia Press, 2015), pp. 181-196.
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Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, “Mexico and Social Protection by the Federal Government and the Federal District: Obstacles and Openings to a Social Protection Floor” Global Social Policy, 2014, (3).
Undergraduate Courses:
- SY101: Introduction to Sociology I: Critical Foundations
- SY103: Introduction to Sociology II: Exploring Social Life
- SY452I: Welfare State and Citizenship
- SY405: Sociology of Poverty
- SY338: Women & Development
Graduate Courses:
- SY612: Welfare State and Citizenship
- SY614: Inequality, Migration and Diversity
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L. Luccisano & Kevin Spooner, U.S State Department FY19 Study Abroad Engagement Grant, 2019-2024
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L. Luccisano & Kevin Spooner, 100,000 Strong in the Americas: The 4th Santander Innovation Fund in Study Abroad, 2018-2019
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L. Luccisano, & P. Maurutto, L. Macdonald, Jill Wigle. SSHRC Insight Development Grant, June 2016
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L. Luccisano, Mitacs Globalink Research Award, February 2015
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L. Luccisano & Kevin Spooner, Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, Canadian Federal Government, October 2010 to October 2014
Contact Info:
Office location: DAWB 5-130
Office hours:
Tuesday: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM via Zoom, or by appointment
Languages spoken: English, Spanish, Italian and knowledge of French