About Us
The Roosevelt Group is a membership organization, think tank, and publication whose purpose is to nurture a community and reveal perspectives on the world via our members.
Who We Are
Founded in 2017, the Roosevelt Group is a student-led organization situated in St Andrews, Scotland. The Group is largely composed of student members at the University of St Andrews.
The Roosevelt Group combines each member’s international outlook, academic rigor, and curiosity to generate a range of conversations. Our 50-member active roster includes a variety of nationalities and spans various academic degree paths.
We aim to gather students and professionals alike for our speaker events and networking opportunities.
The Roosevelt Group publishes two formats of written work that allow our members to explore and express their passions and interests: Quick Takes and New Annales.
Quick Takes are short pieces on a member’s topic of choice, while New Annales is the Roosevelt Group’s biannual publication. The name comes from the 20th-century French Annales school of history, created by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, which considers numerous structures like time, natural history, and social history. Its beauty rests in the fact that the Annales has no sens unique—it is left to take on a life of its own from generation to generation.
Advancing the British-American connection
Our Name
We take our name from
Theodore,
Franklin,
and Eleanor.
Theodore Roosevelt represents the ultimate leader as he overcame childhood infirmities to become a formidable politician, war hero, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner, sculler, boxer, and more. Outside the ring, he fought against government corruption, ushered in a new era of United States foreign policy, and alongside Scotsman John Muir, led the U.S. conservationist movement.
The Roosevelt Group admires Franklin Roosevelt’s bold leadership of the Navy and his great strides toward social progress in the midst of the Great Depression.
Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the 20th-century’s most powerful voices for the disenfranchised. She worked to improve civil rights in the United States and promoted human rights internationally.
Beyond their personal styles, the Roosevelts remind us to work toward bettering ourselves and the world at large.