The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

Dr. C. Bradley Thompson
Executive Director
BB&T Research Professor
Huron Consulting Scholar

Email: tthomp2@clemson.edu
Office Phone: (864) 656-1724
Office Address: 325B Sirrine Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634

Ph.D., Brown University

C. Bradley Thompson is the BB&T Research Professor at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has also been a visiting fellow at Princeton and Harvard universities and at the University of London.

Professor Thompson is the author of the prize-winning book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty. He has also edited The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams, Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader and was an associate editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. His current book project is on “The Ideological Origins of American Constitutionalism.”

Dr. Thompson is also an occasional writer for The Times Literary Supplement of London. He has lectured around the country on education reform and the American Revolution, and his op-ed essays have appeared in scores of newspapers around the country and abroad. Dr. Thompson's lectures on the political thought of John Adams have twice appeared on C-SPAN television.

Dr. Thompson's Book Publications