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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

Cover of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy 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, 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.