Laurelin Beatrijs Middelkoop

Laurelin Middelkoop is a PhD candidate at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where she co-convenes the Intellectual History Working Group. Her research focuses on ideas of international confederation in early modern European political thought – ranging from global visions of world governance to European unions, with a specific focus on the French philosopher the Abbé de Saint-Pierre. She obtained her undergraduate degree in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, after which she completed a MA degree in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History at UCL/Queen Mary University of London, where she focused particularly on the history of natural law, and ideas of empire in art, respectively.