Margarita Markoviti completed her PhD in European Studies at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece and Prof Maurice Fraser. She holds a BA in History from King’s College, University of London, a Master en Affaires Européennes from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Sciences Po, Paris and an MSc in European Studies Ideas and Identities from the LSE. She has taught European studies and comparative politics and institutions at the Government Department of the LSE. She has worked as journal referee and research assistant at the Department of International Relations, the European Institute and LSE Enterprise. Her research interests include religion and national identity, education policies and European integration, religious freedoms and social cohesion in light of religious pluralism. For the purposes of her dissertation, entitled “Education and the Europeanization of Religious Freedoms: France and Greece in Comparative Perspective”, she has conducted extensive research and fieldwork in the fields of religious freedoms and education across Europe.