TAPSS TEAM & GUEST FACULTY

Julia Jansen (Philosophy UCC) is a specialist in Phenomenology and Kantian philosophy, with particular research interests in the field of Aesthetics. She also works in the areas of feminism and critical theory. She is the co-editor of Rediscovering Aesthetics (Stanford 2009) and Critical Communities, Aesthetic Practices (forthcoming with Springer) and the author of Imagination in Transcendental Philosophy: Kant and Husserl Reconsidered (under review).

Kieran Keohane (Sociology UCC) is this year's Director of TAPSS. He is a cultural analyst who works in the interpretive tradition of Social & Political thought, drawing from traditions of sociology, philosophy, psychoanalysis and literary criticism. He is an editor of International Political Anthropology and reviewer for several other journals. He chairs the Graduate Education Committee of the Irish Social Sciences Platform.

Patrick O'Mahony (Sociology UCC) is the former director of the Center for European Social Research. His fields of interest range from the philosophy of the social sciences to social theory to substantive issues in civil and the public sphere. He is co-author with G. Delanty of Nationalism and Social Theory (Sage, 2002), and Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology (Macmillan, 2001). He is also editor with Kieran Keohane of Irish Environmental Poltics after the Communicative Turn (Manchester University Press) and is currently writing The Contemporary Theory of the Public Sphere (Peter Lang).

Joel Walmsley (Philosophy UCC) is a specialist in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and cognitive science. His recent publications include Mind: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction to the Major Theories (Hackett, 2006) and his current research interests focus on the use of dynamical systems theory in cognitive science, the concept of explanation, and emergent properties.

Agnes Czajka is Assistant Professor at the American University of Cairo. Her areas of interest include contemporary social and political thought, continental political philosophy, and critical citizenship and refugee studies. Specifically, she is interested in the intersections between ethico-normative interpretations of Europe and Europeanisation and the politics of refugee-ness; refugee politics in the Middle East and on the peripheries of Europe; intersections between discourses of the nation-state and refugee politics; and the relationship between the political and the ethical.

Carmel Hannan Lecturer in Sociology at University of Limerick, has worked for many years as a social researcher: At the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex (1996-1999) - at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin (1999-2001) - at the University of Oxford (2001-2006) where she taught a graduate course on research methods (2004-2006). Her research has covered a diverse range of topics such as friendship, social networks and unemployment duration, subject choice in schools, policy evaluation and more recently, changes in family formation in Ireland.

Anders Petersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology & Social Work and the Centre for Philosophy of Science Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark, and currently President of the Danish Sociological Association. His research & publication interests are in the field of the social pathologies of contemporary civilization, especially the topic of depression and related phenomena associated with the transformation of subjectivity and social action associated with the new spirit of capitalism and individual and collective existential conditions of neoliberal globalization.

Arpad Szakolczai Professor of Sociology at UCC is a social theorist who has published widely on Reflexive Historical Sociology, the intellectual lineages of Nietzsche, Weber, and Foucault; Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Art; Sociology of the Renaissance; the Genesis of Modernity and Crises of Civilization. He is establishing and developing a new disciplinary field of inquiry and research represented by the journal International Political Anthropology. He is currently completing a book on the Genealogy of the Public Sphere.