Alexander Batson
Assistant Professor
Alexander Batson is an assistant professor of intellectual history at the School of Civic Leadership. He is an historian of early modern Europe. His research focuses on intellectual history, jurisprudence, the history of classical scholarship, and the Protestant Reformation. His monograph project, The Secure Sea: The Greek Tradition in European Imperial Ideology, examines how early modern thinkers used ancient Greek literature and history to craft visions of empire based around limited, secure, territorial seas. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes, and Journal of the History of International Law, among other places.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. from Yale University
