Simon Stow received a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1993; an MA in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal in 1997; and a Ph.D. in Political Science from The University of California, Berkeley in 2002.  He joined the Department of Government at the College of William and Mary in the fall of 2002 where he teaches classes in the history of political thought, American political theory, and seminars on topics in political thought.   A native of the United Kingdom, he is now a permanent resident of the United States.