Eamonn Bellin is a PhD candidate in history at Georgetown. He studies the intersection of imperial power, regimes of unfree plantation labor, and liberal politics in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His dissertation research compares and connects the post-emancipation transformation of plantation economies in the United States and British colonies in South America and South Asia. His research has been supported by fellowships from Georgetown's Global Irish Studies Center, the American Revolution Institute, Tikvah Foundation, Laura Bassi Scholarship, The Public Interest Fellowship, and Evan Armstrong North Award. Eamonn was named the 2026 Rising Expert on Europe by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. He is also a fellow at Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. He worked previously as the academic programs and editorial associate at the Alexander Hamilton Society, a foreign policy nonprofit. Eamonn completed his MA in history at Georgetown and his BA in international affairs and philosophy at the George Washington University.