Dr 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.

Since joining LSE in 2018, Dr Ruderman has won several research and teaching awards, including the LSESU Excellence Award for Innovative Teaching (2019), the Council for European Studies first article prize (2020), and an Excellence in Education Award (2021). She also won a National Science Foundation grant (2021-2024), an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2020-21), and an Arthur H. Cole grant from the Economic History Association (2019).

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.

Teaching

EH316 Atlantic World Slavery

EH401 Historical Analysis of Economic Change

EH431 Women in Economic History

EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia

Curriculum Vitae

Read Dr Ruderman's CV here: Dr Anne Ruderman CV [PDF]

Expertise

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