Edward A. Stettner *68

Edward Stettner, the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science emeritus at Wellesley College, died at home, March 10, 2013. He was 73.

Stettner graduated from Brown in 1962, and earned a master’s degree in politics from Princeton in 1964. He began teaching at Wellesley in 1966 before completing his Princeton Ph.D. in 1968. He taught at Wellesley until 2008, and was a former associate dean of the college.

He taught courses in political theory and specialized in American political thought. His main publication was a study of the American political theorist Herbert Croly (1869–1930) — Shaping Modern Liberalism: Herbert Croley and Progressive Thought . He had served as vice chair of the board of trustees of Mount Ida College in Newton, Mass. A loyal Princetonian, he had been an APGA board member (2005–2008) and an Alumni Schools Committee interviewer (2009–2013). For 28 years, he contributed to the Graduate School’s Annual Giving campaign.

He is survived by Laura, his wife of 46 years; three children; and three grandchildren.

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