Glory Liu's research focuses on the history of political thought, American intellectual history, and political economy.
Her first book, Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism (Princeton, 2022) traces the reception and influence of Adam Smith's ideas in American thought, politics, and culture from the eighteenth century to today. It was named a 2023 PROSE Category Winner in Economics from the Association of American Publishers, a Top 5 Biographies of Economists by the Wall Street Journal, and the 2024 Winner of the Best Monograph Award from the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. It was also featured in a 3-part series on Freakonomics and named an NPR Books We Love in 2022.
She is currently working on two new projects: one on Asian American political thought before the invention of “Asian America,” and another on the political economy of the feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Prior to working at Georgetown, Dr. Liu was the Assistant Director for the Center for Economy and Society and Assistant Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins. She received her PhD in Political Science in 2018 from Stanford University.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of Government