Marquette Professor and Shorewood Resident Receives Humanities Fellowship to Write Book on Adam Smith Released: May 24, 2006 Dr. Ryan Hanley, assistant professor of political science at Marquette University and Shorewood resident, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2006-07. Hanley will take a year’s sabbatical from teaching to write a book that examines the moral and political philosophy of one of capitalism’s founding fathers, Adam Smith.    In an age of globalization, Hanley is part of a new generation of scholars rediscovering Smith’s arguments for capitalism. “The book primarily addresses specialists in the history of eighteenth-century political ideas interested in Smith as a moral philosopher-turned-economist,” he said. “It also addresses more broadly a civic problem of modern society—the moral effects of global capitalism.” The NEH fellowship is a highly competitive grant awarded to university and college professors, as well as independent scholars. Prior to coming to Marquette in 2004, Hanley was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, his master’s from Cambridge University and, most recently, his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2002. Hanley will return to Marquette in the fall of 2007. He teaches courses on power and justice, the political philosophy of capitalism, postmodern politics and Enlightenment political thought. Office of Marketing and Communication Contacts Brigid O'Brien Miller Director of University Communication Phone: (414) 288-7445 Send e-mail Anne Broeker Sr. Media Relations Specialist Phone: (414) 288-0286 Send e-mail