Shannon C. Stimson 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.
"Classical Political Economy", in Coole, Diana H.; Gibbons, Michael; Ellis, Elisabeth et al., The encyclopedia of political thought (2014); see also Adam Smith
