The Marilyn B. Young Research Grant aims to support research on the history of US foreign policy and especially its overlap with social and civil rights history.
The grant is offered to scholars who are interested in using the RIAS holdings and collections to further their research. The travel grant honors the memory of the late Marilyn Young, a leading historian of American foreign relations and a professor of history at New York University. She was also a longtime RIAS friend and supporter, and her work has inspired generations of scholars in Europe and the United States.
The maximum grant available is €800, and the financial support is intended to cover travel and accommodation expenses in Middelburg. The minimum research period at the RIAS is 1 week, and applications should be submitted each year before 25 April, Marilyn Young’s birthday.
The Marilyn B. Young travel grant recipient will be selected based on the applicant’s scholarly qualifications, the scholarly significance of the project, and its consistency with Professor Young’s intellectual interests.
Applications should include the completed form, a description of the research project (1-3 pages), a CV, and be submitted to info@roosevelt.nl.
Past Winners
The Marilyn B. Young Research Grant has been awarded since 2018.
2025: Mara Fiorentini (University of Rome Tor Vergata), “From Washington to Soweto, Black Power Movement, Antiapartheid, and Nixon Foreign Policy in South Africa.”
2024: Sky Lukas Mkuti (University of South Africa & IIE MSA), “An Analysis of the United States’ Counterterrorism in East-Africa since 9/11, with specific reference to Kenya.”
2023: Katharina Weygold (Brown University), “African American Women and Haiti during the U.S Occupation, 1915 — 1934.”
2021: Jacopo Perazzoli (University of Bergamo), “Wilson and Wilsonianism in the 20th Century: Influences and Receptions in the Euro-Atlantic.”
2020: Hannah Walton (University of Geneva), “Women’s Diplomacy and Inter-American Relations: Eleanor Roosevelt and Latin America, 1933-1962.”
2019: Dr. Michelle Carmody (University of Melbourne), “Amnesty International and the Challenge of Human Rights in US Foreign Policy.”
2018: Professor Simon Hall (University of Leeds), “Fidel, Harlem, and the Making of the 1960s.”
