Bonnie Honig
Research Professor
- 750 N. Lake Shore Drive
- 4th Floor
- Chicago, IL 60611
Joint appointment
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University
Education
Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
M.Sc., London School of Economics
Curriculum vitae
Bio
Bonnie Honig, Research Professor at ABF is also Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, at Northwestern, and appointed (by courtesy) at Northwestern Law School. Working in legal and…
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Research focus
Normative political theory, contemporary democratic theory with particular attention to the area of law and politics. Research addresses how constitutions, legal norms, the centrality of rights, and cultural politics operate to help or hinder spontaneous and organized collective actions in democracies.
Projects
- Antigone, Interrupted (in development)
- Latest finding: Dec 22, 2009
- This project is in development. It will be a book about the ways in which Antigone, the heroine of Sophocles' famous 5th centruy play and a nearly universal figure of civil disobedience admired…
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Publications
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Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
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Antigone's Laments, Creon's Grief: Mourning, Membership, and the Politics of Exception"
- Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Thought
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“Agonality: Conceptions of Agonism in Arendt and Arendt scholarship”
- Hannah Arendt-Handbuch: Leben–Wer–Wirkung
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Presentations
- Antigone, Interrupted: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism
- Nov 2009
- From Lamentation to Logos: Antigone's Offensive Speech
- Oct 2009
- Antigone, Interrupted: Humanism and the Future of Democratic Theory
- Oct 2009
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Professional Service & Recognition
co-convenor, American Political Science Association Convention, 2011.