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Welcome to the Trans-Atlantic Forum!

The Trans-Atlantic Forum was formed in 2011 to develop activities that promote collaboration between Washington University scholars and their counterparts in Europe working in the humanities and social sciences.

Working with Paris’s Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities (EHESS) and the University of Amsterdam, we jointly train a cohort of graduate students, selected from the three universities, under the rubric Social Studies of Institutions. Our respective core research teams are engaged in a multi-year joint project on conceptual and methodological dimensions of studying institutions. This also involves a yearly conference.

More exchanges between Washington University departments and European academic counterparts are under development.

Latest News:

Dr. Adrienne Strong

February 7, 2019
Dr. Adrienne Strong
Dr. Adrienne Strong received a dual PhD degree in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Amsterdam (2017) and is a former Trans-Atlantic Forum participant (2012-2013). Dr. Strong is now an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, where she continues to be interested in researching maternal mortality in […]

Homework and Fieldwork

March 20, 2018
Homework and Fieldwork
Why were you excited to participate in the TAF program? The collaborative component! Through the Transatlantic Forum I have been able to exchange ideas directly with a wide network of faculty and graduate students from the three institutions involved. This year- the year I participated (2017/2018)- I am a second-year student from the research masters […]

Studying in St. Louis

February 15, 2018
Studying in St. Louis
Reflections on Life at Wash U and Beyond with Fenneke Wekker (UvA) Why were you excited to participate in TAF program? The main thing for me was the opportunity to live abroad for a period of time, because I’ve never done that before. And I would have never chosen St. Louis, or probably even Paris. […]

Economics (SASE)

May 17, 2017
2015-2016 SSI participants: Laura Chartain, Lauren Crossland-Marr and Marie Le Clainche-Piel, will all present at the 2017 SASE meetings in Lyon France.