About Rick Helmes-Hayes Rick Helmes-Hayes is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Waterloo. Books by Rick Helmes-Hayes Measuring the Mosaic An Intellectual Biography of John Porter by (author) Rick Helmes-Hayes Forty Years 1963-2003 Department of Sociology, University of Toronto edited by Rick Helmes-Hayes assisted by Anne Mitchell The Vertical Mosaic Revisited edited by Rick Helmes-Hayes & James Curtis