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Chair of Sociology and Legal Studies, St. Jerome's University

Director of Human Sciences, St. Jerome's University

Adjunct Professor, School of Planning, University of ��ݮ��Ƶ

PhD. (Sociology), York University
MA (Sociology), York University
BA (Honours), Trinity College, Dublin

Research and teaching areas

• Contemporary and classical theory and methodology
• Phenomenology, hermeneutics, analysis
• The culture of cities: Dublin, Montreal, Toronto
• City life and well being: the grey zone of health and illness
• Theorizing community and the urban-rural discourse
• Sociology of the family (parent/child relations)
• Ancient Athens (Homer, Sophocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
• Socrates and sociology

Recent course offerings at the undergraduate level have included:

• SOC 101 Introductory Sociology
• SOC 302 Introduction to Contemporary Theory
• SOC 355J Power and Parenting
• SOC 369J The Sociology of Community
• SOC 408 Contemporary Debates in Sociological Theory

Recent graduate offerings have included:

• SOC 704 Key Debates in Social Theory
• SOC 708 Contemporary Debates in Sociological Theory
• SOC 717 Reflexive Research Methodology
• SOC 789 Hermeneutics, Dialectic, Plato

Selected publications

Books

• Bonner, K. 1998. Power and Parenting: A Hermeneutic of the Human Condition. New York: St.  Martin’s Press. (176 p.)
• Bonner, K. 1997. A Great Place to Raise Kids: Interpretation, Science, and the Urban-Rural Debate. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (241 p.) (Paperback ed. 1999)
• Bonner, K. 1992. Gemeinschaft and Socialization: Myth, Ideology, or Reality. Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Research Report 498-89-1004). (170 p.)

Articles

• Bonner, K. 2013. (Forthcoming) “Exciting, Intoxicating and Dangerous: Some Tiger Effects on Ireland and the Culture of Dublin.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol 40, No X (xxx- xxx)
• Bonner, K. 2013. (Forthcoming) "Socrates and Crito: Anxiety and the Engagement between the Empirical and Analytic (Ideal) Worlds of Athens." Selected Papers from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. Moraga, California: ACTC Press.
• Bonner, K. 2013. (Forthcoming) “Eros and Ironic Intoxication: Profound Longing, Madness and Discipleship in Plato’s Symposium and in Modern Life“ In History of the Human Sciences, Vol 26, No 3 (xxx-xxx)
• Bonner, K. 2011. “Politics, Principles, and Death in Antigone” In the Selected Papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses Moraga, California: ACTC Press. (157- 164)
• Bonner, K. 2011. “The Illness of Hope, the Cure of Truth and the Difference of Principle: A Reflexive Analysis of Antigone’s and Meursault’s Confrontation with Death.” In Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability. Ed. Tristanne Connolly. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Press. (43 – 56)
• Bonner, K. 2010. “Peter McHugh and Analysis: The One and the Many, the Universal and the Particular, the Whole and the Part.” In Human Studies. Vol 33 (253–269)
• Bonner, K. 2010. “Temple Bar, Density and Circulation: The City as a Terrain of Many Voices.” In Circulation, ed. Will Straw and Alexandra Boutras. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Bonner, K. 2009. “A dialogical exploration of the grey zone of health and illness: medical science, anthropology, and Plato on alcohol consumption.” In Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Volume 30, Issue 2 (81- 103)
• Bonner, K. 2008. “Health, Well-Being and Intoxication.” Health, Illness and Disease: Inter-Disciplinary Perspectives, (11pp)
• Bonner, K. 2008. “Arendt’s Concept of Action: The Tension between Citizen Participation and Planning in Dublin” In Acts of Citizenship, Eds. Engin Isin and Greg Nielsen. London: ZED Books (137 – 159)
• Bonner, K. 2007. “A Fry-up and an Espresso: Bewley’s Café and Cosmopolitan Dublin.” New Hibernia Review, 11(2): 9-20.
• Bonner, K. 2007. “Reflexive Theorizing while Traveling in Montreal and Toronto: The Global Cities Discourse, New Urbanism and the Travel Essays of Jan Morris.”  In Ed. J. Sloane, Urban Enigmas: Montreal and Toronto and the Problem of Comparing Cities. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Bonner, K. 2004. A Collaborative Essay on the Story of Dublin: The Vitality of Old Place in New Times. The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30, (2): 10-20.

Books/Journals edited

• Bonner, K. (Series Co-Editor) & A. Boutras and W. Straw (Eds.) 2010. Circulation and the City. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Bonner, K. (Series Co-Editor) & J. Sloane (Ed.) 2007. Urban Enigmas: Montreal and Toronto and the Problem of Comparing Cities. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Bonner, K. (Co-Guest Editor) 2004. Special issue “Continuity, Contradiction and Change in Contemporary Dublin,” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30 (2).
• Bonner, K. (Series Co-Editor) & A. Blum 2003. The Imaginative Structure of the City. McGill-Queen’s University Press series on The Culture of Cities.

Interviews

• Bonner, K. 2006. “Building Research Networks.” Special Issue: Open Letter on Poetics and Public Culture in Canada.
• Bonner, K. 2004. Rolling with the Waves: An Interview with Peter J. Finnegan (on Dublin’s Vision Document). The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30 (2): 60-66.