Thomas Shevory is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. He has published five books and numerous scholarly articles on issues related to law, public policy, and popular culture, with special attention to health and environment.

Shevory's work on legal history has investigated the political meanings of early constitutionalism, focusing on the relationship between ideology, interpretation and political economy in the jurisprudence of John Marshall and the early Supreme Court.

BODY/POLITICS: STUDIES OF PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION, AND RECONSTRUCTION (Praeger 2000), informed by critical theory, exposed political and ideological constructions of advanced reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, and plastic surgery through analysis of multiple case studies.

In NOTORIOUS HIV: THE MEDIA SPECTACLE OF NUSHAWN WILLIAMS, Shevory revealed constructions of race and HIV within the geographies of deindustrialized America. Drawing upon ethnographic methodologies, Shevory exposed the nature of the media panic in the case of Nushawn Williams, a young African-American man accused of knowingly transmitting HIV to young women in a small upstate New York town. The book has been described by critic Michael Bronski as a "stirring analysis of the case."

His most recent book, TOXIC BURN: THE GRASSROOTS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WTI INCINERATOR, continues a methodological approach that intertwines ethnographic observation with political and legal analysis to recount the history of the WTI incinerator, at one time, one of the most contested EPA sanctioned facilities in the U.S. Citizen opposition to its siting and operation is a benchmark in the evolution of the modern environmental justice movement.

His most recent project involves analysis of popular cultural responses, especially musical, to 9/11, the "war on terror," and the Iraq war.

Shevory l has taught as a Fulbright Scholar at The Free Independent University of Moldova and Moldova State University, in Chisinau, Moldova. He has been Coordinator of the Ithaca College Environmental Studies Program and Chair of the Department of Politics.

Last year he again taught at a Fulbright  Scholar at the National University of Mongolia, in Ulanbaatar.

Shevory is also co-Director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival  (with Patricia Zimmerman). FLEFF is a one-week multimedia inter-arts extravaganza that reboots the environment and sustainability into a larger global conversation, embracing issues ranging from labor, war, health, disease, music, intellectual property, fine art, software, remix culture, economics, archives, AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights.

Shevory teaches courses on U.S. Politics, Environmental Politics, the Politics of Health, the Politics of Popular Culture, and the Politics of Popular Music.