Edward Stettner
Edward Stettner is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science. He was awarded this chair by President Diana Chapman Walsh at Commencement in 1995. He has taught at Wellesley College since 1966, and his special fields of interest are political theory and American political thought.
Before joining the Wellesley faculty, Mr. Stettner was a preceptor at Princeton University in the Department of Politics, and then a lecturer in political science at Rutgers University.
He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1962, graduating magna cum laude, with high honors in political science, and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He then received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University, in 1964 and 1968 respectively. Professor Stettner has been the recipient of fellowships from Princeton University, the Ford Foundation, the Leopold Schepp Foundation, and Wellesley College.
Professor Stettner has written Shaping Modern Liberalism: Herbert Croly and Progressive Thought (University Press of Kansas, 1993), and has edited Perspectives on Europe (Schenkman, 1970). He published a chapter on "Vigilantism and Political Theory" in Vigilante Politics (Rosenbaum and Sederberg, eds.), as well as publishing articles and reviews in Polity, The American Political Science Review, Perspective, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of American History, and other periodicals.
Professor Stettner was Associate Dean of the College at Wellesley from 1977 to 1986, and was Dean of the Faculty from 1986 to 1988. He also served as Acting Dean of the College in 1980-81 (semester II), 1982-83 and 1987-88. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science from 1976 to 1979 and 2002 to 2004, and directed the Washington Internship Program from 1973 to 1976, 1993 to 1998 and 1999- present. He has served on many committees at Wellesley, including the Committee on Faculty Appointments, the Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, and the Advisory Committee on Budgetary Affairs, all of which he has chaired at one time or another. Professor Stettner was awarded the Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Wellesley College in 1997. He is also a Trustee of Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts.
Active in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) since 1968, Professor Stettner served as President of the Massachusetts State Conference of the AAUP from 1975 to 1977, and has been a member of the national Council of the AAUP as well as President of the Wellesley College Chapter.
Mr. Stettner and his wife, Laura, live in Southborough, Massachusetts. They have three children.
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