My name is Emily Huber, I was born in London to South African parents and I grew up in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2021, I moved back to London to pursue a BSc in Politics at King’s College London, from which I graduated with a first-class degree in 2024.
During my undergraduate degree, I specialised in political theory, particularly the history of political thought. I engaged with the work of thinkers including Bernard Mandeville, Hannah Arendt, Adam Smith, and F.A. Hayek. This further inspired my interest in themes of injustice as well as democracy and the relationship between the private and the public sphere. My undergraduate dissertation aimed to demonstrate that in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft advanced an open-ended objective for women’s emancipation. Her focus concerned individuals’ achievement of self-actualisation rather than a specific vision of society, thereby highlighting the limitations of classifying her thought to a particular political tradition.
During my master’s degrees at Columbia and LSE, I am excited to build on my current research interests through a diversification from politics into history. In particular, I aim to explore themes of injustice, violence, and peacebuilding from an intersectional perspective, focusing on southern Africa.
Alongside my academics, I compete in track and field. I have represented King’s College London at the British University Championships in shot put as well as taking on the role of field captain for the team in my final year. In my free time I enjoy reading, hiking, and skiing, as well as attending concerts and musicals.
