Will. C. Van den Hoonaard

Dr. Will van den Hoonaard is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick, and Research Associate at the Atlantic Centre for Qualitative Research and Analysis, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada. He has authored and edited 10 books. A scholar of many interests, he has published books and articles in the field of research ethics, sociology, cartography, religious studies, resource management, history, immigration, Bahá’í Studies, ethnography, and Scandinavian studies,

He is a founding member of Canada’s Inter-Agency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and the first Chair of its Social Sciences and Humanities Working Committee on Ethics. He has served on numerous national academic bodies, including standing-grant committees of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. He is former Chair of the Historical Cartography Section of the Canadian Cartographic Association and served as book-review editor of a number of scholarly journals.

A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he holds other awards, including the University of New Brunswick Merit Award, the “Global Citizen” Award on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, and the University of New Brunswick President’s Medal (2007). Recently, National Geographic featured his new book, Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography, in a personal interview. His other book, The Seduction of Ethics: Transforming the Social Sciences won an honourable mention by the Cooley Awards Committee of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and was the basis of gaining the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute for the Improvement of Health located in Bethesda, MD.

Professor van den Hoonaard was born in the Netherlands and received a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1977. In the late 1970s he represented the Bahá’í International Community, an international non-governmental organization at the United Nations in New York.