Anne Ruderman

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Anne Ruderman is a Ph.D. candidate, studying the slave trade. Her dissertation looks at how European slave-ship outfitters met (supposedly) idiosyncratic African demand for European products and re-exports in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During the 2013 spring semester she was a Visiting Faculty member at Sciences Po in Paris, where she created and taught the seminar, “Slavery, Resistance and Abolition in an International Perspective.” For a syllabus click here. 

Ruderman received a M.A. from Yale in 2009 and a M.Phil. in 2012. During the 2009-2010 academic year she joined the Yale University faculty as a Visiting Lecturer in the Italian Department, teaching Elementary Italian. During the 2010-11 academic year she received a Fox International Fellowship. Her dissertation research has been funded by the Economic History Association, the History Project, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Georg Walter Leitner Fellowship, the MacMillan Center, the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, the Beinecke Library and the Program in Economic History at Yale. She has also held a visiting fellowship at the Centre for the Study of International Slavery at the University of Liverpool. 

She has presented her work at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Princeton University, the University of Liverpool, the Social Science History Association, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Presentation in French) and the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale. 

Prior to graduate school, Ruderman worked as a staff reporter for the International Herald Tribune’s Italy Daily in Milan. She graduated phi beta kappa from Princeton University in 2001, where she wrote a historiography of Princeton University history department senior theses for her senior thesis.