Jonathan Bean

Jonathan Bean is a research fellow at Independent Institute and a professor of history at Southern Illinois University. Bean is the author of several books, and his scholarly publications have appeared in such journals as The Independent Review, Journal of Policy History, and Enterprise and Society. Bean was a member of the Illinois State Advisory Panel for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2011–2023) and is a member of the Academic Hall of Fame at St. Michael’s College. He received the Henry Adams Prize for Best Book of the Year from the Society for History in the Federal Government and the Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference. Bean has testified before the U.S. Senate on corruption in government contracting, consulted for the Japanese government, and served as an expert in court cases involving corporate litigation and a successful civil rights challenge to discrimination by the Small Business Administration.