Anne Ruderman

Dr Ruderman is an economic historian of Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World with a particular focus on the transatlantic slave trade. Her current book project, Supplying the Slave Trade, looks at how European slave-ship outfitters tried to figure out African consumer demand for their products and re-exports in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is under contract with Yale University Press.

Prior to joining LSE, Dr Ruderman held a Prize Fellowship in Economics, History and Politics at Harvard University (2016-2018). She received her Ph.D. with distinction in History from Yale University in 2016. Her dissertation won the Hans Gatze Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in European History from Yale University and was a finalist for the 2018 World Economic History Congress Dissertation Prize in the ancient, medieval and early modern category. Dr Ruderman graduated from Princeton University in 2001. Before graduate school, she worked as a staff reporter for the International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily in Milan.

Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Economic History Association, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, the American Historical Association, the Beinecke Library, the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Harvard University's Center for Economics and History and a RIIF Seed Fund Award at LSE.

In 2019, Dr Ruderman won the LSESU Excellence Award for Innovative Teaching.

She is an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for the 2020-21 year.

She welcomes applications from PhD students interested in slavery or the transatlantic slave trade, Early Modern Europe, the Atlantic World, racial discrimination and inequality, and women's history.

Expertise Details

Transatlantic slave trade; Early Modern Europe; Atlantic World; Venice; race and slavery; trading strategies; consumption; knowledge construction; digital history

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Yale University (2012 — 2016)
• Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) Yale University (2011 — 2012)
• Fox International Fellowship Yale University (2010 — 2011)
• Master of Arts (M.A.) Yale University (2006 — 2009)
• A.B. Princeton University (1997 — 2001)
• Highland Park High School (1993 — 1997)