I studied in France at the Université de la Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure before moving to the UK. I was awarded a PhD in History in 2011 by the University of Cambridge, and subsequently took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford. In 2015 I joined the Open University.
I am a historian of ideas focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, with particular interests in the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of imperialist thought, and the Scottish Enlightenment. Publications include 'The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and 'A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment' (Bloomsbury, 2021). I am currently writing a history of the idea of national independence in the Enlightenment.
Experience
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2020–presentSenior Lecturer in History, The Open University
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2015–2020Lecturer in History, The Open University
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2010–2015Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, University of Oxford
Education
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2011University of Cambridge, PhD, History
Publications
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2021A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment, Bloomsbury
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2015The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution, Cambridge University Press
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