Bonnie Honig

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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

Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy
Antigone's Laments, Creon's Grief: Mourning, Membership, and the Politics of Exception": Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Thought
“Agonality: Conceptions of Agonism in Arendt and Arendt scholarship”: Hannah Arendt-Handbuch: Leben–Wer–Wirkung

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Presentations

Antigone’s Two Laws: Greek Tragedy and the Future of Humanism: Mar 2010
“Ismene’s Forced Choice”: Mar 2010
“Lex Through Text: Law, Culture and Humanities Scholars Discuss the Texts that Shape Their Scholarship”: Mar 2010 William MacNeil, Karl Shoemaker, Kay Warren, George Pavlich

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Professional Service & Recognition

Co-convenor, American Political Science Association Convention, 2011.
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, 2008-09