institutions awards nationality main_interests birth_date article_title name alma_mater
university of california , berkeley david and elaine spitz prize american adam smith , history of economics 08 october 1951 shannon c. stimson
 shannon c. stimson harvard university
shannon c. stimson

shannon c. stimson -lrb- born october 8 , 1951 -rrb- is an american political theorist , philosopher , and historian of ideas , whose work and teaching spans the economic and political thought of both ancient societies and the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries .
she has been professor of political science at the university of california , berkeley since 1991 , where she is also affiliated and has served on the faculty boards of programs in the political economy of industrial societies , and of peace and conflict studies .
professor stimson received her phd from harvard university , and prior to moving to berkeley taught at harvard as both a graduate student and then a faculty member from 1976 to 1991 .
she has held the fulbright professorship in the united kingdom , the christensen fellowship of st. catherine 's college , oxford university , an appointment as a distinguished visiting scholar at queens ' college , cambridge university and the john k. castle chair in ethics , politics and economics , and in political science at yale university .
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 '' , and presently serves on the editorial board of the adam smith review , and has contributed to the `` blackwell encyclopedia of political thought '' .
