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Roosevelt Visiting Professor: Kristin Hoganson

Kristin Hoganson is the Fall Roosevelt Visiting Professor from mid-September to mid-October of 2023. ... Read more

Book Presentation: Telling America’s Story to the World

On 6 October 2023, the RIAS is hosting the presentation of Harry Stecopoulos’s new book, Telling America’s Story to the World. ... Read more

Invitation: 1st Lecture in Seminar Series by Kristin Hoganson

On Monday 25 September 2023 Professor Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will give the inaugural lecture in the Seminar Series on Modern North American History. ... Read more

Webinar: From Slavery to Freedom

On Thursday 12 October 2023 the RIAS and The Netherland-America Foundation in New York will organize a webinar “From Slavery to Freedom in the American South and Dutch Caribbean.̶ ... Read more

Dario Fazzi New Professor by Special Appointment

As of 1 September 2023, Dario Fazzi is the new Professor by Special Appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and Leiden University’s Institute for History. ... Read more

Call for Papers: International Fall PhD Seminar 2023

The next in-person seminar will take place in Middelburg on 6-8 December 2023. We kindly invite applications from current doctoral candidates whose research covers any aspe ... Read more

New Seminar Series on Modern North American History

This series, organized in collaboration with Sciences Po-Paris, is one of very few of its kind in Europe. It intersects with various significant historiographical trends, continuing the move toward ... Read more

RIAS/UCR “Sustainable Freedoms” Essay Prize 2023

The RIAS is pleased to announce the winner of the third annual RIAS/UCR “Sustainable Freedoms Essay Prize” for the best essay on an issue that connects environmental issues to human rig ... Read more

New Book by Damian Pargas about Global Slavery

The RIAS Director Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel published the edited collection The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History  (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). This ope ... Read more

Virtual Exchange on Ecological Threats to Delta Regions

RIAS senior researcher Dario Fazzi and postdoctoral researcher Gaetano Di Tommaso set up a virtual collaboration with College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2022 thanks to a VIS grant. ... Read more

2023 Research Fellow at the RIAS

Mariia Kravchenko (Kyiv, Ukraine) is our Visiting Short-Term Fellow for June 2023 ... Read more

New Book Chapter by Our PhD Candidate, Marcella Schute

Our PhD candidate Marcella Schute has published a chapter in the book called Legacies of Slavery and Contemporary Resistance which came out with Cambridge Scholars Publishing on 9 ... Read more