I retired in 2016. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of British Columbia in 1975.

I was Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universität Konstanz 1980-1981, and visiting research associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1981. As a visiting professor, I have taught at the University of Toronto, Northumbria University and the University of Wales at Bangor.

As a student of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and Wittgensteinian sociology, I investigate lay and professional use of language in talk and texts, including such categories as “teacher,” “student,” “woman/girl,” “man/boy.”

As a student of state-organized crime, I investigate Canadian institutions’ complicity in barbarism.

I think a lot about the responsibility of academics as “intellectual citizens.”

• My book with Stephen Hester, The Montreal Massacre (Laurier Press, 2003), was shortlisted for the Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences for 2004.
• My work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese and has appeared (in English) in the German journal Zeitschrift für Soziologie.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and Wittgensteinian sociology.

• Eglin, Peter and Stephen Hester. The Montreal Massacre. (2003)
• Eglin, Peter. Intellectual Citizenship and the Problem of Incarnation. (2013)
• Eglin, Peter. “Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.” In D. L. Brunsma et al (Eds.), Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights. (2013)
• Eglin, Peter. “Language, culture and interaction.” In F. Sharifian (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Language and Culture. (2014)
• Hester, Stephen and Peter Eglin. A Sociology of Crime. Second edition (2017)