Beth A. Simmons

Beth Simmons
Born Beth Ann Simmons
1958
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Redlands (B.A.)
University of Chicago (M.A.)
Harvard University (M.A.), (Ph.D.)
Known for Mobilizing for Human Rights, Who Adjusts?
Awards Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research
Scientific career
Fields Political Science, international relations
Institutions University of Pennsylvania
Influences Robert Keohane

Beth A. Simmons (born 1958) is an American academic and notable international relations scholar. She is a former Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at the Department of Government. Her research interests include international relations, political economy, international law, and international human rights law compliance.

Early life

Simmons was born in 1958 in the San Francisco Bay Area in California and attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California where she excelled in speech, debate, and music. She earned a BA in political science and philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Redlands, an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in government from Harvard, where she was a student of famed international relations theorist Robert Keohane.

Career

Simmons taught as an assistant professor at Duke University (1991–1996) and as an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1996–2002) before joining the faculty of Harvard University in 2002, where she was Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard Law School.[1] In 2016, she became Andrea Mitchell University Professor in Law and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[2][3]

Simmons served as President of the International Studies Association from 2011-2012. She was succeeded as President by Etel Solingen of the University of California, Irvine.

She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009[4] and the American Philosophical Society in 2017.[5] In 2010 she was awarded the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.[4]

Books

  • Simmons, Beth (1994), Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939, Princeton University Press, p. 334, ISBN 978-0691017105
  • Simmons, Beth (2009), Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521712323

References

  1. ↑ "Beth Simmons". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Beth Simmons". Penn Law. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Simmons elected to American Philosophical Society". University of Pennsylvania. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 Beth Simmons, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, archived from the original on May 11, 2012, retrieved March 4, 2018
  5. ↑ "Newly Elected - April 2017". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 14 July 2017.


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