268:. The following year, Hirschmann was appointed the Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences while also continuing to serve as graduate chair and vice chair of the Department of Political Science. Three years later, she received a new appointment as the Geraldine R. Segal Professors in American Social Thought alongside
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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory.
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