Edward Shils

For the management professor, see Edward Benjamin Shils.

Edward Shils
Born(1910-07-01)July 1, 1910[1]
Springfield, Massachusetts[2][3]
DiedJanuary 23, 1995(1995-01-23) (aged 84)
Chicago
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
University of Leiden
Main interests
sociology, social philosophy

Edward Albert Shils (1 July 1910 – 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy. His work was honored in 1983 when he was awarded the Balzan Prize. In 1979, he was selected by the National Council on the Humanities to give the Jefferson Lecture, the highest award given by the U.S. federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.[4]

  1. ^ Social Security Death Index
  2. ^ Edward Shils Archived 13 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Leiden University "faculty since 1575" site.
  3. ^ Ann T. Keene, Shils, Edward Albert Archived 20 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine at American National Biography Online, Sept. 2005
  4. ^ "Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities" Archived 20 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, National Endowment for the Humanities website (retrieved January 22, 2009).