About Shannon C. Stimson
Shannon C. Stimson is an American political theorist and historian of ideas, whose more recent work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of the early modern period through the nineteenth century. She is the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Government department at Georgetown University. Her academic posts have included appointments at Harvard University (1984-1991), UC Berkeley (1991-2014), the Fulbright Professorship in the United Kingdom, the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, the John K. Castle Chair in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University and she has been a Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens' College, Cambridge on two occasions. Her research has been supported through fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, as well as by several prize fellowships. Her articles have appeared in numerous edited volumes, journals of political thought, economics, the history of economic thought, and political science in America and Europe. She has served on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, the Adam Smith Review, and the Journal of Politics. Reprinted in 2014 as: Stimson, Shannon C. (July 2014). Stimson, Shannon C.; Milgate, Murray (1991). Stimson, Shannon C.; Milgate, Murray (2011). Stimson, Shannon C. (1987), "Jonathan Swift", in Milgate, Murray; Eatwell, John; Newman, Peter K. (eds.), The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, vol.
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