Office: Chambers 3014
brshaw@davidson.edu
Phone: (704) 894-2393
Fax: (704) 894-2071

Political Science Department
Davidson College
P.O. Box 7031
Davidson, NC 28035-2057

Brian J. Shaw is professor of political science and a former chair of Davidson's Political Science Department, Humanities Program, and First-Year Writing Program. He has taught widely within the department and in these programs, offering survey courses in political philosophy and first year and advanced seminars on such topics as the thought of Immanuel Kant, Homer and Thucydides, family policy, and urban design. In 2010 Prof. Shaw's survey course on the "Foundations of Liberalism" was awarded the "Spirit of Inquiry Award" by the John W. Pope Center for Educational Policy, and in 2012 he received Davidson's Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award. Prof. Shaw's articles have appeared in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Philosophical Forum, Journal of Politics, and other journals.