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Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster

Tom Arnold-Forster

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

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster

Tom Arnold-Forster

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

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

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.)

We are looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

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...

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.

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.

A gorgeous day here at Oxford. I’ll be speaking Thursday at @raioxford.bsky.social:
www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/harmsw...

Jobs and Vacancies

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.

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...

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

Jobs and Vacancies

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

🚨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

🚨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.

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/

📚 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/...

Join us online or in-person at 5pm GMT today for this exciting roundtable discussion.

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.

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...

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...

There is no more brutal peer review process, and fierce competition among academics than the RAI Bake Off.

Thank you to our judges, @emilybrady.bsky.social and Kimberley Johnson for taking their roles incredibly seriously!

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!

#RAIBakeoff 2024!
An annual insight into America’s reputation

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')

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...

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-...

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.'

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.

Last month I had an article out! A profile of a photograph Eslanda Robeson took of Langston Hughes, who sent it on to Louise Jefferson. Tracing the transatlantic contours of activistic and friendship networks in the interwar period through the lens (pun) of photography!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Congratulations to Katie Fapp and Sarena Martinez on passing their DPhil vivas

A big congratulations to two of our postgraduate members who successfully recently completed their DPhils! Read about it here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/article/cong...

The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances

On Wednesday 27 Nov at 12:30, we will have our last USA election focused lunchtime seminars with Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London) who will focus the discussion on 'Shifting Voter Allegiances'- details here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/presen...