Dr Will van den Hoonaard

Will van den HoonaardProfessor Emeritus
BA (University of New Brunswick), MA (Memorial University), PhD (Manchester University)

Will C. van den Hoonaard is a longstanding field researcher whose current areas of teaching and research cover qualitative and ethnographic research, research ethics, the Baha’i community, and the world of mapmakers. He has served on the (Canadian) Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics, SSHRC Standard Grants Committees, the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, and as Book-Review Editor of several journals. Before coming to UNB, he represented an international NGO at the United Nations in New York and conducted fieldwork in Iceland. His book, The Seduction of Ethics was listed by Hill Times as one of the top 100 Canadian non- fiction books in 2011 It also received “Honorable Mention” by the Charles H. Cooley Award Committee of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2012.

Selected Publications

  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (2005) Etching the Idea of “Unity in Diversity in the Baha’i Community: Popular Opinions and Organizing Principle. In Margit Warburg, ed. Baha’i and Globalisation. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.
  • van den, W. C. Hoonaard 2004 The Epistemological Framework of Qualitative Research: Is It Still a Cinderella to Quantitative Research? In Jurij Fikfak, Frane Adam, Detlef Garz, eds. Qualitative Research: Differing Perspectives, Emerging Trends. Ljubljana, Slovenia: ZRC Publishing, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, University of Ljubljana.
  • van den, W. C. Hoonaard (2003). Is Anonymity an Artifact in Ethnographic Research? Journal of Academic Ethics. 1(2):141-151.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (2002) Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (2001). Is Research-Ethics Review a Moral Panic? Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. 38(1):19-36.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (2000). Getting There Without Aiming at it: Women’s Experiences in Becoming Cartographers. Cartographica 37(3):47-60.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (1997) Working with Sensitizing Concepts: Analytical Field Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (1996) The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (1992) Reluctant Pioneers: Constraints and Opportunities in an Icelandic Fishing Community. New York: Peter Lang.
  • van den Hoonaard, W. C. (1991) Silent Ethnicity: The Dutch of New Brunswick. Fredericton: New Ireland Press.

 

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Dr Will van den Hoonaard

Professor Emeritus
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Phone: (506) 453-4849
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