Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger serves as the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College. She concurrently holds appointments as a 2021-22 Research Affiliate (co-lead, Theory of AI Practice Initiative) at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, External Professor and Science Board member at the Santa Fe Institute, and Senior Advisor to the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. Previously, she held the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress (2020-2021).

Her research examines critical intersections of governance, economics, and ethics. Key focus areas include:

• International political economy of outsourcing
• Ethical dimensions of whistleblowing in government
• Complexity theory applications in economics
• AI ethics and policy implications

Stanger's influential scholarship includes the books Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, alongside co-editing Complexity Economics.

She has received significant recognition through prestigious fellowships:

• Library of Congress's Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History
• Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Research Affiliate position
• Santa Fe Institute External Professorship

As a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Stanger has provided expert Congressional testimony five times. Her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University anchors her interdisciplinary approach to policy-relevant scholarship.