Bruce O'Neill, Ph.D.

Bruce O’Neill is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University. His research explores the cultural and spatial politics of cities with an ethnographic focus on Bucharest, Romania.

 

O’Neill’s book, "Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest, Romania" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), was awarded the Anthony Leeds Book Prize in Urban Anthropology and the William A. Douglass Book Prize in Europeanist Anthropology. His previous book, "The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order" (Duke University Press, 2017), received the Society for Romanian Studies Biennial Book Prize. Professor O’Neill’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays and the Fulbright programs.

 

At Saint Louis University, Professor O’Neill teaches courses on social theory, ethnographic methods, and on contemporary urbanism. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and an MSc in Cities, Space and Society from the London School of Economics.

 

To learn more about professor O’Neill’s work, visit his webpage.