Beth Simmons

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Beth A. Simmons is an international relations scholar. She is currently Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at the Department of Government.

Simmons was born in California and attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California where she excelled in speech and debate and music. She was a finalist in the Miss Teenage America contest for her outstanding grades and talents in singing and flute playing. She earned a BA in political science and philosophy with summa cum laude from the University of Redlands, an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in government from Harvard.

Simmons has taught as an assistant professor at Duke (1991-1996) and as an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1996-2002). In 2002 she joined Harvard's faculty.

She is the author of many works. For Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years, 1923-1939 (Princeton University Press, 1994) she won the 1995 American Political Science Association Woodrow Wilson Award for the best book published in the previous year in government, politics, or international relations.

Her research interests include international relations, political economy, international law, and international human rights law compliance.

Simmons was a student of famed international relations theorist Robert Keohane.