Stephen Mennell

Who is Stephen Mennell?

Stephen Mennell is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University College Dublin.

He gained his BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and his Doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. He was a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. After returning from America, he taught at the University of Exeter, England, from 1967 to 1990, when he became Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Australia, before returning to Europe as Professor at UCD in 1993. At UCD, along with his wife Barbara, he founded UCD Press on behalf of the university, and he also served as first Director of what is now the Geary Institute, a new social scientific research institute established with Irish government support.

Stephen Mennell's major intellectual influence is Norbert Elias, and he is now a member of the Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation, Amsterdam - in effect one of Elias's executors. He is General Editor of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English, which are being published in 18 volumes by UCD Press.