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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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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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Harvard undergrad and Rad Mag essayist Iman Lavery writes about a visit with her grandparents and how COVID has turned keeping your distance into an act of love. Illustration by Hollie Chastain.
Lauren Groff, the author of "Fates and Furies," "Florida," and other acclaimed works of fiction, navigates fractured time in the fall issue of Radcliffe Magazine. Illustration by Clara Rubin.
Warpland Revival Grief and anger robbed Evie Shockley of her poetic voice. In an essay by turns searching and defiant, she explains how she got it back. (Link in bio.) Artwork by @rebeccachaperon
