Dr James Ashley Morrison

Dr Morrison is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE. He is also the Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning). He specialises in International Political Economy.

Prior to his start at LSE, he was an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College (2008-2013) and a fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University (2012-2013).

He has a PhD in Political Science and a Master’s in History from Stanford University. He is also an alumnus of the University of Chicago (graduated 2003) and a member of Trinity College at Cambridge University (matriculated 2002). And he has been an Associate Member of Nuffield College at Oxford University.

His scholarship lies at the intersection of international relations, history, and political theory. Specifically, he is interested in the influence that ideas–and, more specifically, the intellectuals who wield ideas–can have on foreign policy. Drawing upon my previous training, He approaches this agenda with the perspective and tools of a historian.

Expertise

International political economy, ideas and intellectuals in foreign policy, international organisation, history of political and economic thought, British economic history, and early American history.