Theodore Christov

Born and raised in Bulgaria, Theodore Christov received his PhD in Political Theory from UCLA in 2008. He holds an MTS from Harvard and a BA from Thomas Aquinas College. From 2008-11 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of political theory at Northwestern University. In 2011 he joined the faculty at George Washington University, where he teaches political theory and intellectual history. His research interests lie in the fields of intellectual history, particularly 17th and 18th centuries, and modern political and international thought; the history of international law; and classical theories of international relations. In 2015-16 he will be a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress working on his next book project on the influence of European empires in the history of international law, particularly political theories of statehood in the Americas.