Alexander Batson
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexander Batson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Civitas Institute. He is an intellectual historian of early modern Europe. Batson’s current projects address European imperial ideology, maritime law, the emergence of historical scholarship in the Renaissance, and the political and legal thought of the Protestant Reformer Philip Melanchthon. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Journal of the History of International Law, Reformation & Renaissance Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Grotiana. Batson earned his Ph.D. from Yale University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. from Yale University