THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The history of political thought, intellectual history, the age of revolutions, American history, French history, legal and constitutional history.
BIOGRAPHY
Angus Harwood Brown is a historian of political thought, with a particular interest in the history of democracy and democratic revolutions in the (very) long eighteenth century. He is currently working on a book on constitutional guardianship in the American and French Revolutions, and on a new research project on debates about perpetual peace and world government since the eighteenth century.
Prior to coming to the University of Chicago Angus completed a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, focused on the history of political thought. His work has recently been published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, the American Journal of Legal History, and the Intellectual History Review, and he was the recipient of the International Society for Intellectual History’s 2024 Charles Schmitt Prize.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Sieyès’s Constitutional Jury, the Pennsylvania Council of Censors, and the Debate on the Conservative Power in the French Revolution," Journal of the HIstory of Ideas 85, no. 3 (2024): 479-508.
"The Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the Debate on the Guardian of the Constitution in the Early United States," American Journal of Legal History 64, no. 1 (2024): 1-26.
"Republican nostalgia, the division of labour, and the origins of inequality in the thought of the Abbé Sieyès," Intellectual History Review 34, no. 2 (2024): 433-456.
RECENT AWARDS
2024 Charles Schmitt Prize from the International Society for Intellectual History for his paper “Republican Hegemony as Perpetual Peace? Sieyès’ Theory of International Politics and the Intellectual Origins of Kant’s ‘Federation of Peoples’.”