Georgios Varouxakis

Georgios Varouxakis is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought.

His work to date has focused primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century political thought (British and French). He has also written on political thought on nationalism and cosmopolitanism, empire, and on the intellectual history of ideas of ‘Europe’ and ‘the West’ and attitudes towards the EEC/EU. Previously, he has been Research Fellow at University College London, Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

He grew up in Crete and was educated at the University of Athens (BA) and University College London (MA and PhD).