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James C. Scott
Scott in 2016
Born	(1936-12-02)December 2, 1936 Mount Holly, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	July 19, 2024(2024-07-19) (aged 87) Durham, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Williams College (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Political science, anthropology
Institutions	University of Wisconsin Yale University
Doctoral students	Ben Kerkvliet Melissa Nobles Erik Ringmar Eric Tagliacozzo Elizabeth F. Cohen

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James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, anarchism, and high modernism. His primary research centered on peasants of Southeast Asia and their strategies of resistance to various forms of domination.^[1] The New York Times described his research as "highly influential and idiosyncratic".^[2]

Scott received his bachelor's degree from Williams College and his MA and PhD in political science from Yale. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison until 1976 and then at Yale, where he was Sterling Professor of Political Science. Since 1991 he directed Yale's Program in Agrarian Studies.^[3] He lived in Durham, Connecticut.^[1]^[4]

^ ^a ^b Schuessler, Jennifer (December 5, 2012). "James C. Scott: Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism". New York Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
^ Schuessler, Jennifer (December 4, 2012). "James C. Scott, Farmer and Scholar of Anarchism". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2019. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
^ "Academic Prize 2010, Award Citation". Fukuoka Prize. 2010. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
^ Scott, James C. (March 26, 2009). "James Scott interviewed by Alan Macfarlane" (Interview: video). Vol. 1. Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane. Cambridge, England. Archived from the original on July 27, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2014.