Alanna O'Malley

Alanna O'Malley

Chair of United Nations Studies, Leiden University | Historian

Alanna O’Malley is Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice (Leiden University), and a historian focusing on the United Nations, decolonization, Congo and the Cold War. Her current research focuses on recovering the invisible histories of the UN, investigating the role of the Global South challenging the liberal world order from 1945-1981.

She completed a PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence from 2007-2012. In 2009, she was a Visiting Scholar at New York University, in Spring 2017 a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney and from August 2017-February 2018 she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the History Department of George Washington University in Washington D.C.

My work
Analyse - Geopolitiek & Wereldorde
Thinking differently about the UN at 75