James C. Scott is an American political scientist, anthropologist, and historian. He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Political Science at Yale University
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He is the author of six books on topics including peasant rebellions, political economy in Southeast Asia, and technological change and its impact on human societies. Scott also co-authored a book with Peter Turchin on the Neolithic transition to agriculture. A member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Humanities Center, and a fellow of the German Marshall Fund.
In 2012 he was elected to be a member of the American Philosophical Society.