Shapiro's early work in
political science covered the conventional areas of the discipline, including
political psychology,
decision theory and
electoral politics. Around 1980, however, under the influence of philosophers such as
Michel Foucault, Shapiro began employing concepts from
continental philosophy and
cultural studies including
governmentality, micropolitics, the movement-image, the time-image, and
rhythmanalysis, while introducing unconventional devices such as
first-person narrative into his essays. Shapiro's postdisciplinary political thought is the subject of a forthcoming volume from the Routledge book series "Innovators in Political Theory", which will feature a retrospective of his most important essays in a single volume. Shapiro is the editor of a book series in
political theory (with the University of Edinburgh Press) entitled
Taking on the Political; previously, he was editor the journal Theory and Event from 2004 to 2009, a book series in
international studies and
comparative politics (with the
University of Minnesota Press) entitled
Borderlines. Shapiro received his Ph.D. in
political science from
Northwestern University in 1966, before moving on to a position as professor and chair of the
University of Hawaiii at Mānoa's Political Science Department. Shapiro has also taught at the
University of California, Berkeley (1968–1970), the
University of Massachusetts Amherst (1979 and 1986), the
University of Bergen in
Norway (1972–73), the
Tisch School of the Arts at
New York University (2002), and the
European Graduate School in
Saas-Fee,
Switzerland. With his colleagues at the
University of Hawaii at Mānoa Political Science Department, Shapiro founded what is sometimes called the Aloha School. ==Bibliography==