Alexander Batson

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Alexander Batson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Civitas Institute. An intellectual historian of early modern Europe, his 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. Baston earned his Ph.D. at Yale University.

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