Sharon A. Lloyd (born 1958) is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California.
[3] Lloyd graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981 where she studied with Philippa Foot and Rogers Albritton, and earned her PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1987, where she wrote her dissertation under John Rawls and T.M.
She has served as co-editor for Pacific Philosophical Quarterly and as Review Editor for Philosophy & Public Affairs.
[4] She has also written many peer-reviewed papers, as well as many articles, commentaries, and presentations on topics ranging from Hobbes and the application of Hobbesian ideas, to the philosophies of Machiavelli and John Stuart Mill, to contemporary liberalism and liberal feminist philosophy.
Martinich, writing in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, as one of the most significant books about Hobbes published in the last twenty five years.