Author Archives: Anna Plassart

I studied in France at the Université de la Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure before moving to the UK to pursue graduate work. I was awarded a PhD in History in 2011 by the University of Cambridge, and subsequently took up a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, University of Oxford. In 2015 I joined the Open University as a Lecturer in History. I am a historian of ideas focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe. My research centres on the interactions between British (especially Scottish) and continental political philosophy. I have particular interests in the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of imperialist thought, and the Scottish Enlightenment. Publications on the topic include "A Scottish Jacobin: John Oswald on Commerce and Citizenship" (Journal of the History of Ideas 71:2, 2010), "Scottish Perspectives on war and patriotism in the 1790s" (The Historical Journal, 2014), and 'The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution' (Cambridge University Press, 2015).