Nick Hardy, 1978-2023

Originally from London, United Kingdom, Nick joined the department of sociology on the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Fredericton campus in 2013. Nick was a beloved teacher, respected scholar and recipient of UNB’s faculty of arts Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020.

Nick completed his bachelor’s degree in politics and sociology at the University of Essex, followed by a master's in ethics, politics and public policy. After six years working in research roles in London, he moved to Canada in 2006 to pursue a PhD in Sociological Theory from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

For a brief period, Nick taught at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario before establishing himself at UNB. Nick generously served the Department of Sociology as the director of graduate studies and acting chair; he has also served as a faculty of arts representative on Senate.

UNB will remember Nick for his wit, caring nature, dedication to providing interesting and engaging lectures, and his published work which generated engagement and critical responses from fellow theorists in sociology. Above all, he was a treasured colleague and a cherished friend to many in the UNB and Fredericton communities.

Publications

Hardy, N. 2021. Catcher in the lie: resisting bovine ordure in social epistemology. Journal of Critical Realism 20:1-21.

Hardy, N. 2019. Integrating Archer and Foucault. Journal of Critical Realism 18:1-17.

Hardy, N. 2018. “Developing Pearce’s new materialism” in Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, crime and deviance. Eds. S. Bittle, L. Snider, S. Tomb. London: Routledge. 73-86.

Hardy, N. 2015. The contingencies of power: reformulating Foucault. Journal of Political Power 8(3):411-429.

Hardy, N. 2015. Alea capta est: Foucault’s dispositif and capturing chance. Foucault Studies 19:191-216.

Hardy, N. 2014. Wolff, Althusser, and Hegel: outlining an aleatory materialist epistemology in Rethinking Marxism. 26(4):454-71.

Hardy, N. 2013. “A history of the method: examining Foucault's research methodology” in The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism. Eds. B. Dillet, I. MacKenzie, and R. Porter, Edinburgh University Press. 95-121.

Hardy, N. 2013. Theory from the conjuncture: Althusser’s aleatory materialism and Machiavelli’s dispositif. Décalages: the Journal of Althusser Studies, 1(3), Art.5.

Hardy, N., 2011. 'Foucault, genealogy, emergence: re-examining the extra-discursive' in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Wiley-Blackwell, 41(1):68-91.

Waters, I., Hardy, N., Delgado, D., and Dahlmann, S. 2007. Ethnic Minorities and the Challenge of Police Recruitment. The Police Journal, 80(3):191-216.