B.A. Honours
Trinity College (Dublin)
1974
M.A.
York University
1980
Ph.D.
York University
1987
B.A. Honours
Trinity College (Dublin)
1974
M.A.
York University
1980
Ph.D.
York University
1987
Research Grant
St. Jerome's University
2011
Co-Investigator
Canadian Institute of Health Research
2006 - 2011
Co-Investigator
SSHRC
2000 - 2005
Research Grant
2006
Contemporary and Classical Theory and Methodology, 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)
2013 Co-Guest Editor (with Alexandra Slaby) of the Special Double Issue "Culture and ‘Out of Placeness' in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland, 2008-2013." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol 37, Nos.1+2, 2011.
2002 Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Space, Place and the Culture of Cities." Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol 11(1).
1998 Power and Parenting: A Hermeneutic of The Human Condition. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press. (176 p.)
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)
1992 Gemeinschaft and Socialization: Myth, Ideology, or Reality. Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Research Report 498-89-1004). (170 p.)
2014 (Forthcoming) “Principles, dialectic, and the common world of friendship: Socrates and Crito in conversation.” In History of the Human Sciences 2014, Vol XX(X) 1–23 DOI: 10.1177/0952695113518782
2013 “Reason Giving, City Icons and the Culture of Cities: Data from a Radical Interpretive Perspective.” In Compaso: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. Volume 4, Number 2, Summer 2013, pp. 21-31.
2013 A Floating Anchorage of Identities: An Introductory Essay on Culture in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland” (with Alexandra Slaby). In the Special Double Issue “Culture and ‘Out of Placeness’ in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland, 2008-2013.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol. 37, No. 1 + 2, 2011, pp. 23- 34.
2013 Exciting, Intoxicating and Dangerous: Some Tiger Effects on Ireland and the Culture of Dublin.” In the Special Double Issue “Culture and ‘Out of Placeness’ in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland, 2008-2013.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol. 37, No. 1 + 2, 2011, pp. 50-75.
2013 “Eros and Ironic Intoxication: Profound Longing, Madness and Discipleship in Plato’s Symposium and in Modern Life.” In History of the Human Sciences, Volume 26: Issue 5 (December 2013), pp. 116-133.
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, pp. 157-164.
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, pp 43-56.