Samuel Harrison completed the MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge in 2020, then returned to Cambridge for his PhD, which he completed in 2024. His thesis, entitled The concept of citizenship in France from 1789 to Napoleon, argued that the French Revolution depoliticised the concept of citizenship and introduced to it a strain of authoritarianism that still reverberates today. Outside the Revolution, his other work explores the history and theory of the idea of dignity.
In his research for the THP he will be examining the links between eighteenth-century discourses of oriental despotism, moral sentiments, and abolitionist and anti-abolitionist ideas.
