Madeline McMahon graduated summa cum laude in History from Princeton in 2013, with certificates in European Cultural Studies, Medieval Studies, and Latin. She then completed a post-baccalaureate degree in classics at Columbia in 2014. In 2015, she received an MPhil with distinction in early modern history from the University of Cambridge, where she was a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, an Honorary External Research Studentship from Trinity College, and the Gordon Duff Prize in book history. She is now a first-year graduate student in history at Princeton. Her research interests lie at the intersection of scholarship and religion in early modern Europe. She is also a co-editor for the intellectual history website JHI Blog.