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Bruce O'Neill, Ph.D.

Coordinator, Urban Studies Minor
Professor


Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford University

Research Interests

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. 

Professor O’Neill is the author of Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest, Romania (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) and The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order (Duke University Press, 2017). His 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.

Publications and Media Placements

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