Barry Cannon

Biography

I am originally from County Donegal, and after having completed my BA in UCD (1985), in English and History, I spent fifteen years abroad in London, Barcelona and Lima, Peru. During that time I worked in libraries, local government, English language teaching and international development. While in London, I completed a part-time MSc in Sociology, graduating in 1995. On returning to Ireland in 2000, I began my PhD in DCU, with Prof. Peadar Kirby, researching populism in the context of Latin America, particularly in Venezuela and Peru. Finishing in 2004, I went to work with Comhlamh, the Irish Association for Returned Development Workers, working on a project on international volunteering (www.volunteeringoptions.org). I then returned to DCU in 2006 and led an international development research project on democratization and development in the Central American region. In 2010, I won an Irish Research Council Fellowship to research the Latin American Right, including spending two years in the University of Salamanca, Spain. In 2013 I started my present position with Maynooth.

Research Interest

Sociology