Oran Patrick Kennedy was the RIAS Short-Term Fellow between September and December 2024.
Oran received his Ph.D. in History from Leiden University in 2021. Over the past years, he served as a lecturer at Leiden University, Radboud University and the University of Groningen. His research interests include eighteenth and nineteenth-century US/North American history, African American and African Canadian history, slavery and emancipation in North America, freedom seekers and the Underground Railroad, abolitionism and anti-slavery movements, and race and citizenship, the antebellum period, and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.
At the RIAS, Oran explored campaigns for Black citizenship and resistance to racial exclusion in the Midwestern United States between the early American republic and Reconstruction. He also participated in the “Contesting Black Citizenship from the American Revolution to the Present” conference at the RIAS in December 2024.
