# Timo McGregor Henry Hart Rice Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University ![mcgregor](/sites/g/files/omnuum4141/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/historicizingconsent/files/mcgregor_bio_picture_macmillan_-_timo_mcgregor.jpg?itok=DCeAlEwV) email Timo McGregor is a historian of legal and political thought in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world. His research focuses on conceptions of political community beyond and in between states and empires, with a particular focus on chartered companies and corporate colonizing in the Dutch and English empires. McGregor is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale MacMillan Center, where he is working on a book project exploring forms of inter-imperial collaboration and polity formation in seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch settlements in the Guianas, West Africa, and Northeastern America.