Political Science Department

Faculty -- Susan Meld Shell

department of political science


Susan Shell
Susan Meld Shell
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University

Susan Shell is the author of Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation and Community (University of Chicago Press, (1996), The Rights of Reason: A Study of Kant's Philosophy and Politics (University of Toronto Press, 1980).  She is also the co-editor (with Robert Faulkner) of America at Risk: Dangers on the Horizon (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming).  She has also written on Rousseau, German Idealism, and selected areas of public policy.  She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Council of Learned Societies, The Bradley Foundation, the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst and the Radcliffe Institute. She is currently Chair of the Department of Political Science.

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Office: McGuinn 231                                                                Phone: 617-552-4168
Email: susan.shell@bc.edu