Professor Stimson is the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom , Professor in the Department of Government, and a Faculty Fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Stimson is a political theorist and historian of political thought. Her teaching, research and published works have explored political economic thinkers from the 17th-19th centuries, topics in ancient political and economic thought, and the dynamics of theater and politics in the writings of William Shakespeare. Her current research is focused on the the17th century economic and political thinker, Sir William Petty (1623-1687), and his writings on religious toleration, political arithmetic and state reformation in the context of the English Civil War and Restoration. She has held the Fulbright Professorship in the United Kingdom and the Christensen Fellowship of St. Catherine's College, Oxford. She has twice been elected to a distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge, and held the John K. Castle Chair in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale University. She is a nominator for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, and a Mark DeWolfe Howe Prize Fellowship (Harvard Law School). 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 the Journal of Politics, and at present serves on the editorial boards of Yale University Press and the Adam Smith Review. Her books include: The American Revolution in the Law: Anglo-American Jurisprudence Before John Marshall (Princeton, 1990, 2014); Ricardian Politics [with M. Milgate] (Princeton, 1991, 2014); After Adam Smith: a century of transformation in politics and political economy [with M. Milgate] (Princeton, 2011), winner of the David and Elaine Sptiz Prize, 2011; T. R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle pf Population, the complete 1803 edition with five critical essays (Yale, 2018).
