Kenneth Westhues

Kenneth Westhues is a Canadian sociologist. He is a professor emeritus of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, where he was the chair of the department from 1975 to 1978. He is the author or editor of several books about workplace bullying in academia.

Early life Westhues earned a PhD in sociology from Vanderbilt University in 1970.

Career Westhues was a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph in 1971. He subsequently joined the Sociology department at the University of Waterloo, where he was the department chair from 1975 to 1978.

Westhues initially published research about the relationship between church and state. He subsequently published research about the hippie movement.

Selected works