Thomas Graul
Modern Europe, Intellectual History and Political Thought, Legal History, and the History of International Order
Thomas Graul is a PhD Candidate in Yale’s Department of History. He is interested in Modern European intellectual history, legal history, and the history of international order. His dissertation project reconstructs a conceptual history of the nation-state and the transformation in legal ideas of sovereignty, statehood, and federalism in Central European Thought in the decades before and after the First World War. At Yale, he has served as the co-convener of Yale’s Modern Europe Colloquium and a co-coordinator for the Yale Center for Representative Institutions. Prior to coming to Yale, Thomas received his MPhil from the University of Cambridge and his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. His research has been generously supported by Yale’s Macmillan Center and the Fox International Fellowship.