Adela Halo is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School. Halo is a modern intellectual historian with a particular interest in the French Revolution and its impact on European thought in the ‘long’ nineteenth century and beyond. Her research to date has centered on Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), an influential but overlooked figure of the French Revolution who cast a long shadow over nineteenth-century European politics and ideas. Broadly, Adela is interested in ideas of democracy, equality, liberty, crisis, corruption, and order during the 18th and 19th centuries. She was previously a lecturer in the history of political thought at University College London (2020-2024) where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on democracy and political thought from the ancients to the moderns.