Morgan Golf-French is a historian of early modern Central Europe. He completed his BA at University College London and his MA as part of the intercollegiate London programme in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History. He then returned to the UCL History department for his PhD. After receiving his doctorate in 2020, he held a two-year lectureship at the University of Oxford followed by research fellowships at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel. The manuscript of his first monograph, examining the relationship between history-writing, political thought, and theories of race in the German Enlightenment, is currently under review.
At the Turin Humanities Project, he will research how racial ideas were taught and studied at German universities. He is particularly interested in how students interpreted the ideas presented to them in the classroom and whether these ideas informed their later activities vis–à–vis slavery, serfdom, and colonial projects.
