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Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

  • Education

    • Cornell University
      • Ph. D. in Philosophy, 1986
      • M.A. in Philosophy, 1984
    • Brasenose College, University of Oxford
      • Visiting Student, 1984–1985
    • Bowling Green State University​

      B.A. in English Literature, 1979

      • M.A. in Philosophy, 1981
  • Professional Experience
    • University of California, San Diego (2022–Present)
      • Distinguished University Professor
      • Henry E. Allison Endowed Chair in the History of Philosophy
    • University of Notre Dame (2014–2022)
      • George N. Shuster Professor of Philosophy
      • Concurrent Professor of Classics
    • University of Oxford (2004–2014)
      • Professor of Classical Philosophy
      • Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall
      • Chair of the Faculty Board (2013–2014)
    • University of Colorado at Boulder (1988–2004)
      • Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Classics (1998–2004)
      • Chair, Department of Philosophy (2003–2004)
      • Acting Chair, Department of Classics (1998–1999)
      • Associate Professor (1991–1998)
      • Assistant Professor (1988–1991)
    • Colby College (1986–1988)
      • Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
  • Visiting & Honorary Positions
    • Honorary Research Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (2014–Present)
    • Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013)
    • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TOPOI Excellence Cluster
      • Senior Fellow, 2013
      • Visiting Scholar, 2012
    • Saint Louis University, James Collins Visiting Professorship (2012)
    • University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Erskine Visiting Professor (2003)
    • Yale University, Visiting Professor (2002)
    • Cornell University
      • Visiting Associate Professor, 1997
      • Visiting Professor, 2007
    • Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor (1995)
    • Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Visiting Fellow (1992–1993)
    • University of Arizona, Visiting Assistant Professor (1985–1986)
  • Academic Distinctions & Fellowships
    • Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich (2025)
    • University of Notre Dame Research Grant, Project on the Commensurability of Goodness (2016–2019)
    • John Fell Foundation Research Grant (2011)
    • Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2011; 1988–1989)
    • National Endowment for the Humanities, Director, Summer Seminar (2004)
    • Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury (2003)
    • Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado (2003)
    • Outstanding Graduate Advisor, University of Colorado (2000)
    • University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship (1992–1993)
    • University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award (1990)
    • Prescott W. Townsend Doctoral Fellowship (1984–1985)
    • Cornell Sage Fellowships (1983–1985)
    • Novus Competition for Younger Scholars, First Place (1983)
    • Lowell Leland Award, Outstanding English Literature Major (1979)

Books

  • Fractured Goodness: Aristotle’s Response to Plato’s Form of the Good (Oxford University Press, 2024)

  • Principles and Praxis in Ancient Greek Philosophy, edd. with David Keyt (Springer Verlag, 2024)

  • Revisiting Aristotle’s Fragments, edd. with Mesquita & Noriega-Olmos (De Gruyter, 2020)

  • History of the Philosophy of Mind, 6 vols., edd. with R. Copenhaver (Routledge, 2018)

  • Virtue, Happiness, and Knowledge edd. with D. Brink and S. Meyer (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  • The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, with Robert Pasnau (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  • Aristotle’s De Anima trans. with introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  • The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle, ed. (Oxford University Press, 2012)

  • Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2011; 2nd edition 2023)

    • Chinese translation, 2014​

    • Japanese translation, 2021

  • Aristotle (Routledge, 2007; 2nd edition 2014)

    • Chinese translation, 2015​

    • Turkish translation, 2022

  • Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2003)

  • The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002)

    • Chinese translation, 2015​

  • Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 1999)

Editorial Work

  • Editor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

  • Co-editor (with R. Copenhaver and M. Timmons), Oxford Guides to Philosophy

  • Section Editor, History of Philosophy, Philosophy Compass

  • Section Editor, Aristotle, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Christopher Shields
CU Distinguished Professor 
Henry E. Allison Professor of Philosophy
University of California San Diego

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