Ian Shapiro
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Biography
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also serves as Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004. Shapiro is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a past fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town, Keio University in Tokyo, and Nuffield College, Oxford. His most recent books are The Real World of Democratic Theory; Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror; The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences; and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz). His current research concerns the relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.
Education & Training
- JDYale Law School (1987)
- PhDYale University (1983)
- MPhilYale University (1980)
- BSBristol University (1978)
Activities
- Two-part conference co-organized with Kahreen TebeauBridgewater Lodge, Cape Town, South Africa 2006"After Apartheid: The Second Decade"
- "The state of democratic theory"Cape Town, South Africa 2006Political science workshop
- "Power and democracy." Keynote lecture Copenhagen, May 2001Copenhagen, Denmark 2001Danish and Norwegian Democracy and Power Project
- "Optimal deliberation?"Oxford, United Kingdom 2000Deliberating about Deliberative Democracy
- Visiting FellowOxford, England, United Kingdom 1999Research and Scholarly Work
- "Competing models of democracy"Moscow, Russia 1997Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
- "Democracy in the Modern age"Moscow, Russia 1997"Democracy in the Modern age"
- “Democratic theories of justice”Moscow, Russia 1997“Democratic theories of justice”
- Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Political ScienceCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (1997-1998)Research and scholarly work
- Visiting Fellow, Nuffield CollegeOxford, England, United Kingdom 1995Research and scholarly work
- "Harnessing the profit motive: Education and housing in the new South Africa."Cape Town, South Africa 1994Conference on South Africa in Transition
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Evelyn Miller-Barstow Prize for the study of politics | University of Bristol, England | 1977 |
Professional Service
Organization | Role | Date |
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American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy | Vice President | 2013 - 2015 |
Yale University | Committee on Academic Resources | 2012 - 2014 |
UNDP | Project on “Accelerating Access to Justice” in developing countries | 2005 - 2006 |
The Future of American Democracy Foundation | Committee Member | 2005 - Present |
Public television series on “Great Negotiations in History | Board Member | 2005 - Present |
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale | Director | 2004 - 2014 |
APSA | Leo Strauss prize committee, for the best PhD dissertation in political philosophy | 2004 |
Yale School of Management | Provost’s Standing Advisory and Appointments Committee | 2002 - 2010 |
Committee on Cooperative Research | Member | 2001 - 2003 |
American Political Science Association's annual meeting | Normative Political Theory | 2001 |
American Political Science Associateion | Council Member | 1995 - 1997 |
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy | Council Member | 1991 - 1999 |