Dr. Andrew Jainchill

Biography

Andrew Jainchill is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and his B.A. from Reed College in 1996. His primary research interests lie in early modern Europe, focusing specifically on eighteenth-century France and the French Revolution. Jainchill's published work includes 'Reimagining Politics: Terror, Republican Origins, and French Liberalism' (Cornell University Press, 2008) and he has also edited a critical edition of D’Argenson's 'Considérations sur le gouvernement' (Liverpool University Press, 2019). He has held positions such as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has been a residential fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris. Jainchill is actively involved in editorial boards for journals such as 'Oxford University Studies in Enlightenment' and previously for 'Modern Intellectual History' and 'French Historical Studies'. He is currently engaged in significant research projects, including a study on French political thought in the early Enlightenment and an intellectual biography of the political writer René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d’Argenson.

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