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I am a doctoral student in political philosophy with research interests in the political thought of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. I am particularly interested in the development of the republican tradition, historical notions of the role of “ambition” in political life, and the conceptual tension between the “Lawgiver” and the political autonomy of his people, especially as it occurs in the thought of Machiavelli and Rousseau. I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the university's "Fundamentals" program and minors in Classical Studies and Romance Languages & Literatures. In the interim before my matriculation at Duke, I undertook postgraduate studies in intellectual history and French civilisation at the University of London and Sorbonne Université, respectively.

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