Parker Thomas Moon (1892 – 1936) was an American educator and political scientist, born in New York City, and educated at Columbia College (BA 1912) and took his PhD at Columbia University in 1921, He became assistant professor in 1920, associate professor in 1926, and full professor in 1930. In 1921, he became managing editor of the Political Science Quarterly.[1]

He was a member of the staff of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He is best known as the author of Imperialism and World Politics, (1926). He also wrote 'The Labor Problem and the Social Catholic Movement in France, (1921). In 1929, Moon and Carlton J.H. Hayes published a high school textbook, Modern History. [2] He served as president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Catholic Association for International Peace.

He also contributed to periodicals and year books.

References

  1. ^ "Parker Thomas Moon dies suddenly," New York Sun June 12, 1936
  2. ^ Hayes, Carlton J.H., and Parker Thomas Moon, Modern History, The Macmillan Company, 1929.