On Tuesday, April 8, the Clements Center for National Security, the Center for European Studies (CES), and UT International Relations and Global Studies (IRG) will host Maeve Ryan for a public talk on Experiments in ‘Improvement’: Slavery, Liberation and Governance in the British Imperial World. The event will be in RLP 1.302B, Patton Hall from 12:15-1:30 PM.
Dr. Maeve Ryan is a Reader in History and Foreign Policy at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where she co-directs the Centre for Grand Strategy. At the heart of this centre is an ‘applied history’ approach, which aims to bring more historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy. Maeve directs the centre’s major research projects and impact activities, including the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy, the Forum on Future British Strategy, the World Order Study Group, The Engelsberg Programme for Applied History, Grand Strategy and Geopolitics (in partnership with the University of Cambridge; supported by the Ax:son Johnson Foundation); the £1.05m Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme, ‘Interrogating Visions of a Post-Western World’; the Maymester Sumer School, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize-funded project on the origins and future of the idea of ‘world order’. Along with Prof. Alessio Patalano, she also co-directs the centre’s new Indo-Pacific Programme.
A former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Maeve’s research focuses on modern global history, the history of slavery, emancipation, human rights, and humanitarian governance, British foreign policy and diplomatic history, and on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of world order in the 21st century.
Maeve leads a number of high-impact policy engagement projects, including an ESRC Impact Acceleration-funded project in collaboration with the Cabinet Office National Security Secretariat. Maeve has also acted as a Co-PI on the King’s Together-funded project “Advancing the enforcement of anti-slavery legislation in Mauritania: lessons learned from other African countries”.
Maeve is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Before joining King’s in 2016, Maeve was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of History at the University of Leicester. She also helped to found the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Geopolitics. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in History from Trinity College Dublin.