Fellows
Each year, the Radcliffe Institute hosts leading scholars, scientists, artists, and practitioners from around the world in its renowned fellowship program. Learn more about them here.
Fellows
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Argentina)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Eureka
2016–2017
2015–2016
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Stanford University
Fiction
The After Party: A Novel
2016–2017
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
New York Public Library
Nonfiction
Life of a Klansman
2017–2018
2016–2017
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Tufts University
Anthropology
Expressive Environments and the State: Laws, Violence, and Other Roadblocks to a Palestinian Exchange
2016–2017
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Integrable Probability
2016–2017
Grass Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Biology
Learning from the Past to Understand the Future of Ocean Ecosystems
2016–2017
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
History
Constance Baker Motley and the American Century: A Biography of Race, Gender, Class, and Social Change
2016–2017
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs
Performing Arts
Aesth-ethics: The Role of Ethics in Political Art
2016–2017
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Brown University
Anthropology
Prayers for the People: Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City
2016–2017
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Political Science
Japanese Firms, Industrial Systems, and Investments in Africa
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Philippines)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
A Liberated Cinema
2016–2017
Indiana University
Musicology
Un/Sound Music, Un/Stable Ground: Music, Disaster, and Development in Haiti
2016–2017
Boston Globe
Nonfiction
Memorials in Sound: Music, War, and Collective Memory
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Spain)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Longa Noite (A Long Night)
2016–2017
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Northwestern University
Sociology
Sexual Health as Buzzword: Histories of Emergence and Politics of Proliferation
2016–2017
Hrdy Fellow
Bard College
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Rethinking the American Diet: Optimally Unifying Environmental and Nutritional Sciences
2016–2017
Helen Putnam Fellow
Brandeis University
Biology
Single-Molecule Visualization of Messenger RNA Synthesis and Maturation
2016–2017
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Harvard University
Astronomy
The Prediction Project
2016–2017
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Brown University
Political Science
The Political Ethics of the Strike
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China)
Political Science
Legitimating the Early Modern State: A Comparative Study of Social Policies in Tudor England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China
2016–2017
Maury Green Fellow
University of California, Riverside
Religion
Contagion and the Sacred in Mexico: Epidemic Disease, Indigenous Death, and the Birth of New World Christianity
2016–2017
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Independent Composer (Poland)
Music
Cities of Salt: Opera in Three Acts
2016–2017
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Independent Artist (Lebanon)
Visual Arts
Under-Writing Beirut—Ouzaï