I'm an FWO postdoctoral fellow. I defended my DPhil (PhD) dissertation in Politics at the University of Oxford in 2022, where I was the inaugural David N. Lyon Scholar at Oriel College. I'm primarily a historian of political thought, and am especially interested in, and committed to, recovering early modern women’s political thought. I aim to bring their perspectives to bear on contemporary political concerns.
Prior to the DPhil, in 2016 I graduated cum laude from University College Utrecht, where I majored in philosophy and history. In 2019 I completed the MPhil in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where I wrote on Maria von Herbert's correspondence with Kant. My doctoral work has been supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the University of Oxford, and the Prins Bernhard Cultural Foundation.
I'm currently working on two projects. The first derives from my doctoral dissertation at Oxford and recovers a novel ethics of partisanship through engagement with the works of two eighteenth-century English political thinkers and partisans, Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay. The manuscript is currently under review at Oxford University Press. My second project focuses on the history of ambition and its relation to politics, with a special interest in female ambition.
