Andréa (she/they) is a third-year PhD candidate at the European Institute, LSE, and an Associate Fellow at the university of Essex.

She focuses on the interrelation of universalism and Eurocentrism in philosophical discourses by bringing attention to the different incarnations of those philosophical discourses. They explore the tensions between a universalistic discourse of rational subjects ‘without a face’ and the embodied exclusions from that discourse – particularly on the basis of coloniality, race, gender, and class. She attempts to develop a non-Eurocentric and radical articulation of universality through Merleau-Ponty’s embodied “conceptless universality”. 

Andréa holds a bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po Paris (specialism in European history and political sociology) and a dual master’s degree between Sciences Po Paris and the LSE in European studies (Culture and Conflict in a Global Europe programme). She received the prizes for Best Dissertation and Best Overall Performance in her programme.

Before joining the European Institute, she worked as a teaching and research assistant at the College of Europe (Bruges), in the Politics Department and the General Studies programme, and as a research officer at the Fondation abbé Pierre, an organization fighting against social exclusion and poverty in France and Europe. 

Andréa’s research is funded by an ESRC scholarship.

Academic Supervisors Professor Simon Glendinning and Professor Jonathan White Teaching  GV262 – Contemporary Political Theory