Steven B. Smith (political scientist)
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Steven B. Smith (born 1951) is the
Political Science at Yale University. From 1996 to 2011 he was the Master of Branford College
at Yale.
Early life and education
Steven Smith was born in 1951. He received his undergraduate degree from
G. W. F. Hegel.[1]
Career
In 1981 Steven Smith received his
constitutional government. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science, Director of the Special Program in the Humanities, and Acting Chair of Judaic Studies and from 1996-2011 served as the Master of Branford College. He is an honorary member of Manuscript Society. He has received several awards and prizes including the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize given by Phi Beta Kappa
and the Lex Hixon ‘63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2009. Smith describes himself as an East Coast Straussian.
His books include Spinoza, Liberalism and Jewish Identity (1997), Spinoza's Book of Life (2003), Reading Leo Strauss (2006), The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009), Political Philosophy (2012) and his latest, Modernity and Its Discontents (2016).
He is married and has one son.
References
- ^ "Higher Degrees". University of Durham Gazette. 22 (New Series): 20. 31 January 1977. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
External links
- Yale University
- Branford College
- Academic Earth Political Philosophy Course
- "Introduction to Political Philosophy" - Smith's OpenYale Course
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