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Ian Shapiro, 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 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 and Nuffield College, Oxford. His most recent books
are The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences,
and Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing
Inherited Wealth (with Michael Graetz). His new
book, Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against
Global Terror is forthcoming from Princeton University
Press. His current research concerns the relations between
democracy and the distribution of income and wealth.
Campus address: 124 Prospect Street, Room 101
Phone: (203) 432-5253
E-Mail: ian.shapiro@yale.edu
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