UCL Americas Public Seminar Series: The Opportunities and Costs Posed by Overseas Americans
Join Professor Sarah Snyder from the American University, Washington D.C., for the second seminar of the 2024/25 series.
UCL Americas Public Seminar Series: The Opportunities and Costs Posed by Overseas Americans
16 Oct 2024, 17:00 – 18:30
This talk will illuminate the long history of Americans living overseas, including the ways in which they have aided the U.S. government and enhanced American soft power, but also how they have presented liabilities, as was seen most recently in the extensive negotiations to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
Chaired by Jonathan Bell
Sarah Snyder
Sarah B. Snyder is a historian who specialises in the influence of non-state actors, such as human rights activists and expatriates, on U.S. foreign relations. She is the author of From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press, 2018), which explains how transnational connections and 1960s-era social movements inspired Americans to advocate for a new approach to human rights. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations awarded it the 2019 Robert H. Ferrell Prize for distinguished scholarship in the history of American foreign relations.
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