Madeleine Armstrong received a Ph.D. in History from Trinity College, Cambridge. She was recently a research project manager and lecturer at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. At Princeton, she will prepare the manuscript of her book, Love & Duty in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke. Her research is focused on the family in the history of political thought, especially in the writings of Edmund Burke and in the conservative tradition. She also studies the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the origins of the political Left and Right. Armstrong is from Vancouver, Canada, and completed her undergraduate degree in History and English with distinction at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.