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The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Announces 2021–2022 Fellows
The Institute will welcome the 2021–2022 class to Cambridge for a year of in-person research, writing, and interdisciplinary exchange. The class was drawn from a wide pool of international applicants, and the acceptance rate was 2.4 percent.
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s work spans all disciplines and professions. The Institute is unique among Harvard University’s many distinguished schools: interdisciplinary by design and animated by an institutional legacy of promoting inclusion.
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Youth Leadership
Across the country and around the world, young people are leading calls for social change. A new mentoring and leadership development program at Harvard Radcliffe Institute empowers Harvard undergraduates and local high school students to drive meaningful change in their communities.
Law, Education, and Justice
Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s focus on law, education, and justice reflects a growing bipartisan consensus that historically high rates of incarceration in the United States constitute a national crisis.
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The Fellowship Program annually selects and supports artists, scholars, and practitioners who bring both a record of achievement and exceptional promise to the Institute.
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Whether looking to work on individual projects or to collaborate with colleagues, researchers at all levels will find opportunities at Radcliffe.
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While Radcliffe activities remain remote, we invite you to join us us for a virtual event or to explore our digital exhibitions.
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Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Schlesinger Library pause, briefly, in the fight for equality to celebrate achievements past and present on International Women's Day.
Read the winter issue of News from the Schlesinger Library to learn how Diana Carey and colleagues changed on the fly to keep collections open to researchers and students during lockdown.
This image tells part of the story of a 19th-century mob that terrorized Black neighborhoods and destroyed a model of biracial government. Learn more in our Q and A with Suzanne Mettler, former fellow, Cornell political scientist, and coauthor of Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy. Photo courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library, North Carolina Room
