Eric Schliesser's (PhD, The University of Chicago, 2002) research encompasses a variety of themes, ranging from economic statistics in classical Babylon, the history of the natural sciences and forgotten 18th-century feminists (both male and female) to political theory and the history of political theory and the assumptions used in mathematical economics. He was previously affiliated with Syracuse University, Leiden University, and Ghent University, and has been a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara and Chapman University.