Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Faculty Associates

Our faculty associates develop innovative programming that engages researchers, students, and the public in the work and ideas of leading theorists and practitioners across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

These faculty leaders, experts in their areas of study, are committed to creating connections among scholars, schools and disciplines across the University and around the world:

  • Joanna Aizenberg, [Photo by Tony Rinaldo]

    Director of the science program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a director of the Kavli Institute for Bionanoscience, a founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute

  • Ann Blair, [Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer]

    Senior advisor to the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and Harvard College Professor and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Leah Price, [Photo by Tony Rinaldo]

    Senior advisor to the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

  • Robert J. Sampson, [Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer]

    Director of the social sciences program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Past Radcliffe Institute Faculty Associates who have helped shape and design our multidisciplinary Academic Ventures programming include:

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  • Brigitte Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School
  • Joan V. Ruderman, president and director of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 
  • Dimitar D. Sasselov, professor of astronomy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
  • Rosalind A. Segal, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, the Ted Williams Senior Investigator, and a member of the Departments of Neurobiology, Cancer Biology, and Pediatric Oncology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute