Abigail Gabrieli is a senior concentrating in History and pursuing a secondary in Government.  Her research interests lie in early modern European and American intellectual history, in the intersections between discourses of political and legal thought, epistemology, and gender and sexuality.  She is also deeply interested in the ways in which producing historical scholarship can be an actively ethical force in the present.  Beyond her academic work, she chairs the Institute of Politics’ Policy program, staffs Contact Peer Counseling, and serves as a PCC for the History department.

Gabrieli received a 2016 Kissel Grant to work on her thesis, which will place seventeenth century Anglophone debates about legal epistemology in transatlantic context. By tracing the scars that contingent historical pressures left on our intellectual inheritance to their origins, she hopes to shed new light on the conflict between substantive and procedural legitimacy in deliberative democracies.

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