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Hilton Root
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Academic work
Discipline	Political economy
Institutions	Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University
Website	hiltonroot.gmu.edu

Hilton Root is an American academic. He is a professor of public policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University, in Virginia.^{[1][third-party source needed]} He specializes in international political economy and international development.^{[citation needed]}

His published work includes Dynamics among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States, which was published by the MIT Press in 2013.

• Mellon Post-Doctoral Program in Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
• Ph.D., University of Michigan
• Diplôme d’Etudes Avancées, Politics & Law, Université de Bourgone, Dijon, France
• M.A., University of Michigan
• B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo^[2]