Jon Shelton

Jon Shelton is Professor and Chair of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, affiliated with the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the intersection of education, labor, and political systems in American history.

• Key Roles: Vice-Chair of Green Bay’s Equal Rights Commission, Board Member of Labor and Working-Class History Association, Board Member of Wisconsin Labor History Society, Vice-President for Higher Education at American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin.

Scientific Awards:

• International Standing Conference of the History of Education’s First Book Award (2018)

Publications: Author of The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2023) and Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order, winner of the 2018 First Book Award. Published works in Washington Post, Dissent, Jacobin, and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.