Brigitte Leucht is a Reader in International History and Politics at the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on the history of European integration including the recent publication Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present (with K Seidel and L Warlouzet, 2023). Brigitte has taught widely across history and politics subjects in Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (IHEID, Geneva), Denmark (Copenhagen), and the UK (LSE, Westminster, Oxford, and Brunel).