He is the author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Brandeis University Press 2007), which critically assesses the development of this controversial and enigmatic German-Jewish refugee’s political philosophy and its legacy. Professor Sheppard is currently working on a book that explores the ways in which German Jewish intellectuals grappled with issues of loyalty from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is also co-editing The Nachlass of Simon Rawidowicz with David N. Myers (UCLA) and Benjamin Ravid (Brandeis University, Emeritus). He and Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) are managing editors of multi-volume “Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought” on Brandeis University Press/UPNE.