Andrew Gibson is an America and the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Florida’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education. His research focuses on the history of political and international thought, with particular interest in the realist, republican, and “reason of state” traditions.

His book manuscript, The Atlantic Machiavellians, explores how twentieth-century historians and strategists turned to Niccolò Machiavelli as a prism for understanding the geopolitical crises of their age. From the First World War to the Vietnam War, figures such as Friedrich Meinecke, Gerhard Ritter, Hans Baron, Felix Gilbert, and J. G. A. Pocock reinterpreted Machiavelli’s legacy to confront enduring questions of power, ethics, and international order. The project reveals how Machiavelli became a contested figure—a “realist” in international relations, a “republican” in political theory, and an intellectual ally to the United States during the Cold War. 

His current projects include a monograph-length applied history of American republicanism—probing how civic virtue, territorial security, and institutional balance have shaped U.S. foreign policy—and a study of “reason of state” thinking in postwar American scholarship, tracing its journey from German historiography to mid-century U.S. strategic discourse.

Andrew earned his Ph.D. in Government (with distinction) from Georgetown University, M.A. degrees in Social Science from the University of Chicago and Government from Georgetown, and a B.A. in Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy (with honors) from Michigan State University’s James Madison College. He has been a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center, a Doctoral Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and a Lecturer in Georgetown’s Department of Government. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, with his wife, Mariel, and their dog, Birdie.