Dr Anna Plassart

Professional biography

Research interests

My research focuses on the history of European ideas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in Scottish and French political philosophy. 

I have published on the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of democratic and imperialist thought, and the Scottish Enlightenment. My first book examined the Scottish reception of the French Revolution, and looked at the ways in which David Hume and Adam Smith's intellectual heritage was reshaped by their Scottish readers during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. 

I am current writing a Leverhulme-funded monograph examining eighteenth-century ideas of national independence. I am also a General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Dugald Stewart.