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Rothermere American Institute
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The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith! https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
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Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social · Sep 12
We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).

The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.

Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)
Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Jun 4
We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Jun 4
The RAI's Visiting Winant Professor, Kimberley Johnson, was a panel member at the recent University of Oxford Sheldonian Series: Truth.

You can watch the recording on YouTube via this link bsky.app/profile/ox.a...

You can read the news article here www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Apr 24
EVENT: Sheldonian Series - Truth

📆 13 May
🕠 5:30- 6:30pm
🎟️ Oxford staff and students only

Join the Vice-Chancellor to hear from panellists debating the limits and challenges to truth today.

The series aims to promote freedom of speech and inclusive inquiry within the collegiate University.
Promotional poster for the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Series titled "Truth," featuring a painted ceiling with dynamic and colorful figures, scheduled for Tuesday, 13 May, from 5:30 to 6:45 PM.
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · Jun 3
A gorgeous day here at Oxford. I’ll be speaking Thursday at @raioxford.bsky.social:
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Apr 14
The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · Apr 16
Interrupting my usual programming to share that my doctoral dissertation has won the Society of American Historians' Allan Nevins Prize!

I'm so grateful to the friends and mentors who have taught me this beautiful profession, especially in dark times.

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Allan Nevins Prize | Society of American Historians
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Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social · Apr 14
Senior Americanists! It is a great time to bring your talents to Oxford for 27-8, 28-9 or 29-30. (Yes, just think about that.) The Harmsworth Visiting Professorship is as lovely a gig as it gets, now with a more transparent process of appointment
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Apr 14
The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Apr 14
The Faculty of History and the RAI are delighted to announce that expressions of interest are now invited for the Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History for the academic years 2027-28, 2028-29, and 2029-30. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
www.rai.ox.ac.uk
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Mar 7
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the RAI/St Edmund Hall Broadbent Career Development Fellow in US History since 1600, a three-year postdoc starting September 2025! Closing date 22 April. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Mar 7
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We’re excited to announce that applications are open for the RAI/St Edmund Hall Broadbent Career Development Fellow in US History since 1600, a three-year postdoc starting September 2025! Closing date 22 April. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/vacancies.
Jobs and Vacancies
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · Feb 14
Recent PhD in 20th century US history, or planning to defend before Sept 2025?
We are looking for the next *Mellon Research Fellow*, a three-year postdoc with our large and thriving American history group. Deadline 9 March so don't delay!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/
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Vere Harmsworth Library @vhllib.bsky.social · Feb 12
📚 Our new Alain Locke Collection books are on the shelves & ready to borrow! 📚

This collection, funded by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, focuses on African American history, politics, biography & culture.

Find out more via our blog post:
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/02/...
New Alain Locke Collection Titles – Winter 2024-5 intake! | Vere Harmsworth Library News
The new selection of titles for the Alain Locke Collection are now available and on display in the Vere Harmsworth Library!
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Feb 12
Join us online or in-person at 5pm GMT today for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · Jan 20
Genuinely think this will be a highlight of my career. I am so excited to be finally meeting the brilliant Claire Rydell Arcenas and Glory Liu *in person*! 12 Feb, 5-7pm RAI Oxford - drinks to follow. Thanks to @raioxford.bsky.social for adopting us. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roundt...
Roundtable: 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Feb 7
Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · Jan 20
Genuinely think this will be a highlight of my career. I am so excited to be finally meeting the brilliant Claire Rydell Arcenas and Glory Liu *in person*! 12 Feb, 5-7pm RAI Oxford - drinks to follow. Thanks to @raioxford.bsky.social for adopting us. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roundt...
Roundtable: 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Feb 7
Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social · Jan 20
Genuinely think this will be a highlight of my career. I am so excited to be finally meeting the brilliant Claire Rydell Arcenas and Glory Liu *in person*! 12 Feb, 5-7pm RAI Oxford - drinks to follow. Thanks to @raioxford.bsky.social for adopting us. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roundt...
Roundtable: 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'
www.rai.ox.ac.uk
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · Dec 15
Brilliant essay on Biden, & the closing of an age of US politics, by @aipsmith.bsky.social, head of the @raioxford.bsky.social.

"The light of Biden’s world is dying. Biden was born precisely when that world was coming into being. He leaves office as it finally dies"
www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
How will history judge Joe Biden?
America’s 46th president wanted to be the man who restored normality, writes Adam Smith, a professor of US politics and political history at the University of Oxford. Instead, he will be a character i...
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Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social · Dec 3
There is no more brutal peer review process, and fierce competition among academics than the RAI Bake Off.
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Dec 3
A very successful 2024 #RAIBakeOff. It was an intense competition, but ultimately, the 'Make America Cake Again' won both the judges award and people's choice. Thank you to all who participated!
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Dec 3
Thank you to our judges, @emilybrady.bsky.social and Kimberley Johnson for taking their roles incredibly seriously!
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Dec 3
A very successful 2024 #RAIBakeOff. It was an intense competition, but ultimately, the 'Make America Cake Again' won both the judges award and people's choice. Thank you to all who participated!
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Adam Smith @aipsmith.bsky.social · Dec 3
#RAIBakeoff 2024!
An annual insight into America’s reputation
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Erin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social · Dec 3
Serious work event - the annual RAI Bake Off. Fierce competition and delicious bakes. @raioxford.bsky.social

(Special shout out to my own 'Yee-Haw Cupcakes')
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Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · Dec 2
Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...
Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World
This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, th...
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Dec 2
Our final AHRS of Michaelmas term will be tomorrow, Tuesday 3 December at 16:00 at the RAI with Beth Wilson (Oxford) discussing her work on 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South.'
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Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social · Dec 2
The biggest competition in Oxford happens this week! Tomorrow we will hold our fourth annual RAI Bake Off. It is highly competitive and delicious. Here are some of our favourite entries over the years. Special shout out to @emilybrady.bsky.social for her Barbenheimer cake entry last year.
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