Welcome

RSF welcomes the 2025-26 Visiting Class! We hope the information on this site will make your stay at RSF more enjoyable and productive. On Wednesday, September 3rd, we’ll have two introductory meetings for the new class. In the first session, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, visiting scholars and researchers will meet with RSF President,… Read More Welcome

Goodbye Scholar Event

The End of the year scholar goodbye event will take place on Wednesday, June 18th, cocktails starting at 5:30 in the library and dinner at 6:30 in the dinning room. We hope you can all join us then for passed small plates and cocktails.

Visiting Scholar Seminar, June 3: Caitlin Dickerson

Dear RSF: Please join us next Tuesday, June 3rd at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Caitlin Dickerson entitled “Deported: The Hidden Toll of American Expulsion.” Dickerson is an immigration reporter at The Atlantic, where she has been on staff since 2020. Her 2022 cover story on the 1st Trump administration’s deportation… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, June 3: Caitlin Dickerson

Visiting Scholar Seminar, May 28: Eric Patashnik

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, May 28th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Eric Patashnik entitled “The Demand-side for Policy Improvements: Investigating the Pressure for Good Government”. Click here for the background reading. Patashnik is the Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Brown… Read More Visiting Scholar Seminar, May 28: Eric Patashnik