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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Doing this tmrw!
Come hear @danielpemberton.bsky.social and @tgreiving.bsky.social discuss Tim's new biography on John Williams. Tomorrow at 5 pm at the RAI. Books will be available for purchase. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w...
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Doing this tmrw!
Come hear @danielpemberton.bsky.social and @tgreiving.bsky.social discuss Tim's new biography on John Williams. Tomorrow at 5 pm at the RAI. Books will be available for purchase. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w...
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Come hear @danielpemberton.bsky.social and @tgreiving.bsky.social discuss Tim's new biography on John Williams. Tomorrow at 5 pm at the RAI. Books will be available for purchase. www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w...
Did you know our history professors sometimes break out into traditional hymns during their annual lectures? Thank you Professor Gould for the lovely song. Full lecture available here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/article/harm...
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Did you know our history professors sometimes break out into traditional hymns during their annual lectures? Thank you Professor Gould for the lovely song. Full lecture available here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/article/harm...
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Interviewing @tgreiving.bsky.social next week in Oxford about his remarkable John Williams biography…
In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
John Williams: A Composer's Life
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November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interviewing @tgreiving.bsky.social next week in Oxford about his remarkable John Williams biography…
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In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
John Williams: A Composer's Life
rai2.web.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
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Come and discover books and online resources about the history of sport in the US and its links to politics, identity, religion and economics with our new American sports book display! 📚⚾🏈
Find out more at our blog: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/11/...
@raioxford.bsky.social
Find out more at our blog: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/11/...
@raioxford.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Come and discover books and online resources about the history of sport in the US and its links to politics, identity, religion and economics with our new American sports book display! 📚⚾🏈
Find out more at our blog: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/11/...
@raioxford.bsky.social
Find out more at our blog: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/11/...
@raioxford.bsky.social
In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
John Williams: A Composer's Life
rai2.web.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In two weeks, Wed 26 Nov, we are hosting a talk with author @tgreiving.bsky.social and film composer Daniel Pemberton about Tim's new book, John Williams: A Composer's Life. Details on the website here: rai2.web.ox.ac.uk/event/john-w... @oupprimary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
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Tomorrow (Oct 22) at 5:00 pm BST, join @raioxford.bsky.social in welcoming Tom Arnold-Forster for a discussion of his book, Walter Lippmann, exploring the life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers.
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Tomorrow (Oct 22) at 5:00 pm BST, join @raioxford.bsky.social in welcoming Tom Arnold-Forster for a discussion of his book, Walter Lippmann, exploring the life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers.
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
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Next week, Oct 22 at 5:00 pm BST, join @raioxford.bsky.social in welcoming Tom Arnold-Forster for a discussion of his book, Walter Lippmann, exploring the life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers.
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Next week, Oct 22 at 5:00 pm BST, join @raioxford.bsky.social in welcoming Tom Arnold-Forster for a discussion of his book, Walter Lippmann, exploring the life and ideas of one of the twentieth century's leading political thinkers.
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/5JVx5O9
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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.)
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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September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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.)
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.)
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...
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...
June 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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...
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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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.
📆 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.
April 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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.
📆 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.
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A gorgeous day here at Oxford. I’ll be speaking Thursday at @raioxford.bsky.social:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/harmsw...
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/harmsw...
June 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A gorgeous day here at Oxford. I’ll be speaking Thursday at @raioxford.bsky.social:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/harmsw...
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/harmsw...
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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
April 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
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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.
sah.columbia.edu/content/priz...
I'm so grateful to the friends and mentors who have taught me this beautiful profession, especially in dark times.
sah.columbia.edu/content/priz...
Allan Nevins Prize | Society of American Historians
sah.columbia.edu
April 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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.
sah.columbia.edu/content/priz...
I'm so grateful to the friends and mentors who have taught me this beautiful profession, especially in dark times.
sah.columbia.edu/content/priz...
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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
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
April 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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
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
April 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
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🚨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
www.rai.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨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.
🚨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
www.rai.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨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.
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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/
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/
February 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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/
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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📚 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/...
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!
blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📚 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/...
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/...
Join us online or in-person at 5pm GMT today for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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
February 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Join us online or in-person at 5pm GMT today for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Join us online or in-person next week for this exciting roundtable discussion.
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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...
"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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December 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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...
"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...