He received his Ph.D. in political economy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2005. Prof. Shelton’s first teaching experience was as a post-doc teaching masters students in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He then taught for two years at Wesleyan University before coming to CMC in 2008. At CMC he has taught mostly macroeconomics at the intermediate and advanced levels, but elsewhere he has taught courses in economic growth, game theory, social choice, and public economics.