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1990 - 2001
NAME:

John O'Neill

CITIZENSHIP:

Canadian and U.K.

ADDRESS:

York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
M3J 1P3

TELEPHONE:

(416)736-5148 ext. 66915 (office)

(416) 736-5732 (office fax)

(416) 653-8838 (home)

(416) 653-7323 (home fax)

E-MAIL:

joneill@Yorku.ca


EDUCATION:

1952-1955

London School of Economics and Political Science, B.Sc. (Hons.) (Sociology)

1955-1956

University of Notre Dame, M.A. (Political Science)

1957-1962

Stanford University, Ph.D. (History of Social Thought)


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Continuing:

Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University

1998-01

Visiting Research Fellow, Goldsmiths College, University of London

1995-01

Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, England

1993-94

Director, Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

1991-94

Senior Scholar, Laidlaw Foundation, Toronto, Children at Risk Programme


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
American Sociological Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
International Institute of Sociology
International Association for Semiotic Studies
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Francaise
International Sociological Association
Societé des Amis de Montaigne
Renaissance Society of America
Toronto Semiotic Circle
Merleau-Ponty Circle
International Association of Philosophy and Literature
Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute


GRADUATE FACULTY OF SOCIOLOGY

1993-94

Director, Graduate Programme in Sociology Recruiting Committee
Theory and Methods Examination Committee
Admissions Committee
Colloquium Committee

Continuing:

Member of Graduate Faculty in Social and Political Thought
Member of Graduate Faculty in Philosophy
Adjunct Member in Comparative Literature, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto


COLLEGE

Fellow of Founders College since 1964


HONOURS AND AWARDS

1997-02

Honorary Visiting Professor School of Social and International Studies, University of Sunderland, U.K.

1994-

John O'Neill Teaching Award instituted in the Department of Sociology

1991-94

Senior Scholar, the Laidlaw Foundation, Toronto

1990-91

President of the Toronto Semiotic Circle

1990

Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-25 March 1990


GRANTS

1992-93

Laidlaw Foundation Grant for Study of Children at Risk, $25,000

1991-92

Laidlaw Foundation Grant for Study of Children at Risk, $15,000

1990-91

Member of the Royal Society of Canada Global Change Programme, Health Issues Panel, $23,492

1989-90

SSHRC Grant for Textual Studies in Psychoanalysis, $30,204


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2000-

Co-editor, The Journal of Classical Sociology
International Advisory Board, Sociology, Journal of the British Sociological Association
Chair, External Review Committee on Department of Humanities, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 12-14 January, 2000

1972-

Continuing: Co-editor, Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
Board Member, Theory Culture and Society, Human Studies

1998-

Editorial Board, European Journal of Social Theory

1995-

Associate Editor, Body and Society

1993-

NEH Summer Institute Seminarist on the Philosophy of Giambattista Vico, Institute for Vico Studies, Emory University, Atlanta

1991-93

Member of the Royal Society of Canada Program for Global Change, Health Issues Panel

1989-90

President, Toronto Semiotic Circle and International Summer School for Structure and Semiotic Studies


TEACHING

Graduate Courses Taught : York University

2000-01

Religion, Law and Psychoanalysis: Genealogies of Violence

1998-00

Theories of Social Justice

1997-98

The Pleasure of the Text: Freud/Derrida

1996-97

Theory of the Text: The Primal Scene of Theorizing

1995-96

Hegel's Dialetic of Recognition and Desire

1994-95

Theory of the Text: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

1993-94

Administration

1992-93

Sabbatical Leave

1988-92

Theory of the Text: Freud's Five Case Histories

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Staffordshire University, U.K.

2000-01

Bataille: Violence and Excess

1998-00

Cyberdiscourses: Mythology and Psychoanalysis

1992-93

Sabbatical Leave

1988-92

Theory of the Text: Freud's Five Case Histories


Graduate Supervisions:

Over the years, I have supervised at least 31 Ph.D. thesis and many more Master's Degrees. I have been a member of countless committees in several programmes; (Philosophy, English, Psychology, Environmental Studies) as well as external examiner at home and abroad.

For more information please see Publications and Invited Lectures.

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