Leigh T.I. Penman is a historian of ideas who received a PhD from the University of Melbourne in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2009. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Oxford, University of London (Goldsmiths), and the University of Queensland. He is the author of Hope and Heresy: The Problem of Chiliasm in Lutheran Confessional Culture (2019), and The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism (2020).