Giles joined the RIAS in 2002 (when it was still called the Roosevelt Study Center) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he was promoted to tenured senior researcher in 2005. Between 2008 and 2012 he also taught as an Associate Professor at University College Roosevelt, and between 2009 and 2018 he held the Ernst van den Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since WWII at Leiden University. In 2017 Giles was appointed Academic Director of the RIAS and from 2019 to 2022 he served as the Roosevelt Chair of New Diplomatic History. He is currently the dean of Leiden University College The Hague.
Research Interests
Giles Scott-Smith’s research has four broad fields of interest:
The history and practice of public diplomacy
The ‘cultural Cold War’
The networks and ideologies of anti-communism
The study of diplomacy from the perspective of ‘new diplomatic history’
