Political Science Scholar Heralded For Best Book
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Professor of political science Nancy Hirschmann has received the American Political Science Association’s 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics. The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, her fourth book, examines the traditional Western understanding of freedom in the context of contemporary issues such as domestic violence, welfare reform, and Islamic veiling.
Professor Hirschmann’s research explores the intersection of analytical philosophy, feminist theory, and the history of political thought. She serves as vice chair of the political science department and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study). In addition, she has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She came to Penn in 2002 from Cornell University and holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and an A.B. from Smith College.
The Schuck Award is the highest honor given to political scientists for work on gender.