Shannon Stimson
Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-4682
Office Location: 760 Barrows/109 Moses
Office Hours: W 12:30-2 & by appt.
Summer 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
Shannon Stimson is Professor of Political Science and a co-director of the Traver’s Program in Ethics and Governmental Accountability. Her field of research is political theory and the history of political and economic thought. She has held the Fulbright Professorship in the U.K., the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford and a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge. Her books include After Adam Smith: Conceptual Transformations of Politics and Political Economy (forthcoming, Princeton University Press), Modern Political Science (co-editor, 2007), Writing a National Identity (Manchester, 1993), Ricardian Politics (1991), The American Revolution in the Law (1990). She teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses, including Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, History of 18th and 19th century economic thought, and Political Ethics in the Age of Terror; graduate seminars in Greek and Roman political thought, Stoic traditions in ancient and early modern thought, Staging Politics in Shakespeare, Conceptual debates in Contemporary Rule of Law. She has contributed numerous articles to journals of economics, political science, and political thought in American and Europe and has served on the editorial board of the American Political Science Review.