Two Postdoctoral Fellows to Join Clements Center Team

May 07, 2014

Charles Drummond is currently completing a Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he has organized seminars and symposia and has taught courses on British political history and the history of political thought. His dissertation, sponsored by the Cambridge Overseas Trust, is entitled “Political Thinking and Military Power in Later Stuart Britain, 1660-1701.”

Recently, Drummond’s research has shifted forward into the eighteenth century and westward towards colonial America. He is working on a project on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The resulting monograph will connect patterns of republican political thought in the early modern British Atlantic to the “original meaning” of this most controversial of amendments.

Drummond, who hails from Plymouth, Michigan, earned an M.Phil. in early modern European history at the University of Cambridge in 2010 as an Eben Fiske scholar. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2009 and did research for his senior thesis at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Drummond has worked in private equity in London and as an aide for state and federal political campaigns in the U.S. In addition, he has held internships in Washington, D.C. relating to human rights, law, and national security.

Nina Silove is currently completing a D.Phil. (PhD) in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include grand strategy, strategic planning, and U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific. Most recently, Nina was a Research Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, she was a visiting Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, the Tutor for International Politics in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford, Deputy Principal of Postmasters (Junior Dean) at Merton College Oxford, Convener of the Merton College Global Directions research group, and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the University of Sydney. Nina graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with first class honors from UTS, where she also received the Alumni Association Achievement Award for Contribution to the University.

Nina and Charles will contribute to the life of the Center by conducting reserach, teaching courses, and leading a speaker series. For more information about the Clements Center’s Post-Doctoral Fellows program, please visit the program page or email Jacqueline Chandler at [email protected].