Stephen J. Mennell#
| Membership Number: | 2958 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.stephenmennell.eu./index.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor Emeritus, University College Dublin
- 1999 - 2002 Director, Institute for the Study of Social Change (now the Geary Institute), University College Dublin
- 1993 - 2009 Professor of Sociology in the National University of Ireland; Head of the Department of Sociology, University College Dublin, 1993 - 1999, 2002 - 2005; Acting Deputy Head, 2008 - 2009
- 1990 - 1993 Professor of Sociology, and Head (1990 - 1992) of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. PDF of interview from Monash Observer, 1990
- 1987 - 1990 Reader in Sociology and Comparative European Studies, University of Exeter
- 1967 - 1970 Assistant Lecturer, 1970 - 1978 Lecturer, 1978 - 1987 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Exeter
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociological theory
- Historical sociology
- Sociology of food
- American society
- Work of Norbert Elias
- Civilising and decivilising processes
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Prix Marco Polo, Paris, 1988 (for Français et Anglais à Table)
- 1986 Grand prix international de littérature gastronomique (for All Manners of Food)
- 2004 Doctor of Letters by the University of Cambridge in 2004
- 2004 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004
- 2009 Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2009
- 2011 Member of Academia Europaea in 2011
