Joanna Aizenberg
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics

Seema Alavi
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Jamia Millia Islamia (India)
South Asian History
Travel, Migration, and the Wahabi Diaspora: The Turn toward Arabic Learning and Culture in Nineteenth-century South Asia

Kamal Aljafari
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Artist (Israel)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
A Cinematic Occupation

Uri Alon
Grass Fellow
Weizmann Institiute of Science (Israel)
Systems Biology
Design Principles of Biological Circuits

Cynthia Becker
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Boston University
Art History
Afro-Islamic Art and Performance in Morocco: The Trans-Saharan History of the Gnawa

Jericho Brown
American Fellow
University of San Diego
Poetry
The New Testament: Poems

Joy H. Calico
Burkhardt Fellow
Vanderbilt University
Musicology
Musical Remigration: Schoenberg’s “A Survivor from Warsaw” in Postwar Europe

Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
The Open: BeComing Animal

Siddhartha Deb
New School
Nonfiction and Current Issues
Do You Know Who I Am? Stories of Wealth and Poverty from the New India

Emily I. Dolan
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Musicology
The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre, 1750–1810

Debra Ann Fischer
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Yale University
Astronomy
Searching for Earths in the Alpha Centauri System

Robin Fleming
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Boston College
European History
Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain

Peter Galison
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
History of Science
Building Crashing Thinking

Erin E. Gee
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Independent Composer (United States)
Music Composition
"SU-O" for Voices and Orchestra

Ben J. Green
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
University of Cambridge (England)
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Discrete Rigidity Phenomena

Jerry R. Green
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Choice, Rationality, and Welfare Measurement

Linda G. Griffith
Harvard Stem Cell Institute Radcliffe Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioengineering
New Approaches to Probing Autocrine Growth Factor Loops in Stem Cells

Leslie Hewitt
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Artist (United States)
Visual Arts
Still Life

Daniel Andres Hojman
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Choice, Rationality, and Welfare Measurement

Alison Knowles
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Independent Artist (United States)
Visual Arts
Fluxus Around the Clock

Roy Kreitner
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (Israel)
Legal History
From Promise to Property, from Populism to Expertise: The Political Career of the Dollar, 1862–1913

Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow and Bunting Fellow
Harvard University
English Literature
A History of Stage Directions

James Mallet
Helen Putnam Fellow
University College London (England)
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Species and the Ecology and Evolution of Biological Diversity

Andrea R. Nahmod
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Dispersive Wave Phenomena from a Nondeterministic Viewpoint

Rachel Ollivier
École Normale Supérieure (France)
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Representations of p-adic Reductive Groups in Characteristic p

Heather Paxson
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Crafting American Artisanal Cheese: Economies of Sentiment, Ecologies of Production

Ann Pearson
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Investigating the Deep Biosphere

Katie Peterson
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Deep Springs College
Poetry
Strange Litany

Jennie E. Pyers
Marion Cabot Putnam Memorial Fellow
Wellesley College
Developmental Psychology
The Acquisition of Spatial Language in American Sign Language: Understanding the Ties to Cognitive Development

Agustín Rayo
Burkhardt Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philosophy
Language as Decision Making

Ravit Reichman
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Brown University
English Literature
Lost Properties of the Twentieth Century

Leonard Retel Helmrich
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Scarabeefilms (Netherlands)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Position of the Stars

Claire Roberts
Australian National University/Powerhouse Museum (Australia)
Asian Art History
The History of Photography in China and the Hedda Morrison Archive at Harvard-Yenching Library

Leigh Royden
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Plate Tectonics: Thinking from the Top Down

Russ Rymer
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Independent Writer (United States)
Nonfiction and Current Issues
Out of Pernambuco: Music, Craft, and a Disappearing Tree

Alex Samorodnitsky
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Computer Science
Some Properties of Boolean Functions

Humaira Awais Shahid
Rita E. Hauser Fellow Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Khabrain Group of Newspapers (Pakistan)
Journalism
Violence Against Women in South Asia

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Hrdy Fellow
Boston University
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Muslim Youth: Gender, Sexuality, and Public Piety in Indonesia’s New Middle Class

Reuven Snir
Haifa University (Israel)
Cultural Studies Theory and Practice
“Arabs of the Mosaic Faith”: The Participation of Jews in Modern Arab Culture

Gigliola Staffilani
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Dispersive Wave Phenomena from a Nondeterministic Viewpoint

Ma Thida
Physician and Independent Writer (Burma)
Nonfiction and Current Issues
Vipassana Meditation in a Burmese Prison

Godfried Toussaint
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
McGill University (Canada)
Computer Science
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Musical Rhythms of the World

Graduate Fellows

Elaine Auyoung
Harvard University
English Literature
The Economy of Literary Representation

Ellen Exner
Harvard University
Historical Musicology
King Frederick the Great and the Origins of Modern Musical Life in Berlin (1732 to 1756)

Kristi Olson
Harvard University
Philosophy
Freedom, Justice, and the Market

Prudence Peiffer
Harvard University
Art History
Routine Extremism: Ad Reinhardt and Modern Art