Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute has supported the work of 50 fellows annually in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Learn more about them here.
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Fellows
2006–2007
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor
Harvard University
Musicology
Overlooking the Ephemeral
2007–2008
University of Mosul (Iraq)
Women's and Gender Studies
Poetry for the Nation/Political Poetry: A Study of Arab and American Women's Poetry of War from 1967 to the Present
2013–2014
Grass Fellow
Harvard University
Biology
Evolution of the Animal Face: From Principles to Mechanisms
2008–2009
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
Mount Holyoke College
Nonfiction
Curveball: Toni Stone's Challenge to Baseball and America
2013–2014
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Painting as Site of Resistance
2011–2012
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and Radcliffe-African Studies Fellow
Independent Writer (Nigeria)
Fiction
A New Novel
2015–2016
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Indian Institute of Science (India)
Computer Science
Learning to Make Choices in the Era of Big Data
2017–2018
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
Seoul National University (South Korea)
Political Science
Imperial Crossroads: Great Britain and the United States in the Far East, 1853–1945
2000–2001
Murray Research Center
University of Southern California
Sociology
The Binuclear Family: A Longitudinal Investigation of Divorce and Remarriage
2015–2016
Shutzer Fellow
Harvard University
Statistics
Big Ideas in Data Science: Focus on Social Science and the Humanities
2010–2011
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Biomimetics and Quantitative Biology: Conceptual Interpretation and Mathematical Modeling of the Adaptive Design Strategies in Biological Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms
2009–2010
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics
2008–2009
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics
2019–2020
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Cornell University
Architecture
Right to Heal: Architecture in Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Societies
2014–2015
Robert G. James Scholar at Risk Fellow
Independent Scholar
Political Science
End of Diversity: Nationhood and Religious and Sectarian Exclusion in the Arab World
2008–2009
Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)
Materials Science
Using Light for Chemical Reactions
2009–2010
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Jamia Millia Islamia (India)
History
Travel, Migration, and the Wahabi Diaspora: The Turn toward Arabic Learning and Culture in Nineteenth-century South Asia
2017–2018
Robert G. James Scholar Fellow
Independent Scholar (Saudi Arabia)
Biology and Medical Sciences
Gender as a Determinant of Health in Saudi Arabia
2007–2008
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Yale University
African American Literature
A New Genealogy of African American Experimental Poetry
2009–2010
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Artist (Israel)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
A Cinematic Occupation
2013–2014
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Princeton University
Architecture
Designs of Destruction: Architectural Preservation in the Age of Total War
2002–2003
University of California, Riverside
American Studies
The Last of the Founders: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
2009–2010
Grass Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Biology
Design Principles of Biological Circuits
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Argentina)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Eureka
2018–2019
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of Vienna (Austria)
Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics
Mapping by Starlight—The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry
2006–2007
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Engineering Sciences
Speech Perception in Noise: Models and Applications
2001–2002
Harvard University
History of Science, Technology, or Medicine
A New History of Acupuncture
2016–2017
2015–2016
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Stanford University
Fiction
The After Party: A Novel
2016–2017
2015–2016
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Stanford University
Fiction
The After Party: A Novel
2010–2011
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Southern Methodist University
Cultural Studies
Affirmative Acts: The Ethics of Self-Fashioning in Contemporary African American Women's Autobiography
2015–2016
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Armitage Gone! Dance
Performing Arts
Untitled Performance Portfolio
2007–2008
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Indiana University
Sociology
College Culture and Social Inequality
2012–2013
Independent Scholar (Iran)
Law
Transitional Justice and Criminal Prosecution of Sex Crimes in Libya
2007–2008
Independent Composer
Music Composition
Ethiopian Christian Creativity in Transnational Perspective
2006–2007
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
A Tale of Nobel Dreams
2011–2012
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Clark University
Music Composition
New England Poets: A Work for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
2001–2002
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sociology
Social Learning and Neoliberal Reforms: Opening the Black Box
2012–2013
University at Buffalo
The Lives of Francisca Kolipi: Mapuche Shamans and Mythohistory in Southern Chile
2001–2002
Tufts University
History
Orientalism under the Sun King: Eurasian Trade and the Transformation of French Society and Culture (1650–1789)
2019–2020
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Nature (United Kingdom)
Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics
A Cultural History of the Cosmos
2006–2007
University of Pennsylvania
Law
The Possibility of and Foundations of Legitimate Law
2016–2017
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
New York Public Library
Nonfiction
Life of a Klansman
2007–2008
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University
Psychology
The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Social Cognition
2004–2005
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University
Psychology
The Legal Design of Equality Based on the Science of Ordinary Prejudice
2014–2015
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Biology
Programmable DNA Compartments as Artificial Cells on a Chip
2007–2008
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
California Institute of the Arts
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
What Nature Tells Us
2002–2003
Brown University
European History
The Microhistory of Genocide: 200 Years of Interethnic Relations and the Origins of the Holocaust in Buczacz, Ukraine
2000–2001
Center for Educational Programs
George Mason University
Anthropology
Lifelong Learning and the Changing Shapes of Lives
2011–2012
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Rochester Institute of Technology
Astronomy
Constraints on Heating and Cooling in the Intracluster Medium: Implications for Galaxy Formation
2009–2010
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Boston University
Art History
Afro-Islamic Art and Performance in Morocco: The Trans-Saharan History of the Gnawa
2008–2009
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Anthropology
Navigating Body, Self, and Society Across Adolescence: A Mental Health Crisis in Fiji
2005–2006
Texas A&M University
Physics
Flux Backgrounds in String Theory and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles
2005–2006
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Texas A&M University
Physics
Flux Vacua of M-theory, Cosmology, and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles
2015–2016
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Colorado College, Queens University of Charlotte
Fiction
Bad Girl
2015–2016
Maury Green Fellow
University of Minnesota
Sociology
Black Power Lawyers: Unique and Unorthodox Methods
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
Boston University
Psychology
Experiencing and Thinking about Economic Inequalities
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Independent Scholar
Art History
The Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
2002–2003
Emory University
Physics
Cosmology of Extradimensional Defect Universes
2019–2020
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Harvard University, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics
All That Glitters Is Gold: Gravitational Waves, Light, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
2001–2002
Loyola College in Maryland
Philosophy
The Passion of "Anxiety": Disorder or Sign?
2019–2020
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computer Science
Targeting the Internet of Things Ecosystem for Social Good
2010–2011
Tufts University
Music Performance
Dead or Alive: Resurrecting Forgotten Treasures from the Harvard Music Libraries and Performing Them
2018–2019
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
American Studies
The Tragedy of William Freeman: A Story of Mass Murder, Slavery, and Convict Labor in the North
2007–2008
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Michigan
Cultural Studies
Divo/Duce: Italian Masculinity Crossing Over to 1920s America
2018–2019
University of Oklahoma
Anthropology
Running Out: An Ethnography of Groundwater and Responsibility on the High Plains
2004–2005
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Fund Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
Cultural Citizenship
2007–2008
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Music Composition
Double Violin Concerto and Smaller Works
2001–2002
University of Washington, Friday Harbor Laboratories
Biology
The Genomic Context of Gamete Recognition Genes in Sea Urchins
2014–2015
University of Victoria (Canada)
Music
Completion of the Composition Cycle "Mishpatim (Laws)"
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
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
2013–2014
Louisiana State University
Biology
Fungi in Our Environment: Revision of the Alexopoulos Introductory Mycology Textbook
2014–2015
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
History
Hidden Hands: Amanuenses and Authorship in Early Modern Europe
2019–2020
Maury Green Fellow
University of Zurich (Switzerland), Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany), Yale University
Multidisciplinary
A Large-Scale Study of Body Partonomy Diversity
2018–2019
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Biology and Medical Sciences
Health Policies for Obesity Prevention
2005–2006
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Antiquities at Ife: Violence, Disease, Power, and Art in Ancient Africa
2018–2019
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Rider University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Structure in Motion
2014–2015
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Contemporary Archaeology
2016–2017
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Integrable Probability
2011–2012
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
McGill University (Canada)
Anthropology
Female Labor and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950
2015–2016
American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Chemistry
Potential Precursors for Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels
2002–2003
University of California, Berkeley
Physics
String Theory, Cosmology, and the Holographic Principle
2016–2017
Grass Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Biology
Learning from the Past to Understand the Future of Ocean Ecosystems
2014–2015
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Philosophy
The Significance of Self-Consciousness
2006–2007
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of Colorado
Computer Science
Computers, Chaos, and Choreography
2005–2006
Hrdy Fellow
Williams College
History
Red Mother, Red Worker: The Changing Lives of Russian Women over the Twentieth Century
2019–2020
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Harvard University
History
Enduring Stigma: Historical Perspectives on Disease Meanings and Their Impact
2011–2012
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Science and Cooking, and Other Applied Mathematical Adventures
2013–2014
Hrdy Fellow
Harvard University
Sociology
Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies
2017–2018
Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Computer Science
Geometric Deep Learning
2010–2011
Princeton University
American Studies
Subterranean Blues: Black Women and Sound Subcultures—from Minstrelsy through the New Millennium
2011–2012
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Minnesota Population Center
Anthropology
Female Labor and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950
2005–2006
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Harvard University
History
Specter in the Canes: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
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
2010–2011
Duke University
Architecture
The Dead Come to Town: Preaching, Burying, and Building in the Medieval City
2006–2007
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
Cultural Studies
Russian Imperial Masterworks and Their Post-Histories
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Williams College
Religion
"Why This New Race?" Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity
2018–2019
Joy Foundation Fellow
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Multidisciplinary
Liturgy Matters: Benedictine Women’s Communities in Medieval England
2011–2012
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
University of Maryland
Physics
Modeling Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Montserrat College of Art
Art History
The Object at the End of the Century
2008–2009
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Brandeis University
Sociology
Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine
2008–2009
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
University of Oklahoma
Anthropology
The Great Commission: Direct Sales and Direct Faith
2007–2008
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Computer Science
The Theory of Holographic Algorithms
2007–2008
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health
Statistics
Development and Evaluation of Diagnostic and Prognostic Rules with Biological and Genomic Markers
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Wake Forest University
Multidisciplinary
Romanticism and the Clinic: Early Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medical Ethics
2009–2010
Burkhardt Fellow
Vanderbilt University
Musicology
Musical Remigration: Schoenberg's "A Survivor from Warsaw" in Postwar Europe
2019–2020
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
Boston College
Musicology
Conducting Oneself: Choreographing Bodies and Identities on and off the Podium
2012–2013
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science
Dire States: Fiscal Effects and Policy Choices during the Great Recession
2010–2011
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Princeton University
History
Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the American Workplace, 1900–2000
2006–2007
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Political Science
Militant Democrats: Political Repression in Western Europe
2008–2009
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Cornell University
History
Catholic-Jewish Relations in France, 1870–1914
2007–2008
Harvard University
Political Science
The American Antislavery Petition in Political and Historical Context
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
United Nations
Economics
Value Chain Approach to Improving Women's Livelihoods
2012–2013
Maury Green Fellow
Northwestern University
Sociology
Social Context, Sexual Migration, and the Mexican Gay Diaspora
2018–2019
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
Drexel University
Literature
Audiofuturism: The Transatlantic Circuit of Science Fiction Radio Drama
2006–2007
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Northwestern University
Sociology
Credit and Credibility: The Evolution of Economic Trust
2016–2017
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Brown University
Anthropology
Prayers for the People: Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City
2019–2020
Frances B. Cashin Fellow
Independent Artist
Performing Arts
Diary of a Tap Dancer
2007–2008
Hrdy Fellow
Independent Scholar
Education
Telling Them Their Own Stories: An Ethnographic and Pedagogical Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention
2006–2007
2005–2006
Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux (France)
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Newton Trees and Algebraic Curves
2006–2007
2005–2006
Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux (France)
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Newton Trees and Algebraic Curves
2009–2010
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Sweetgrass
2011–2012
Bunting Fellow
Independent Scholar
Literature
Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor: Middle English and the Corporate Subject
2011–2012
San Francisco State University
Art History
In the Company of Women: Female Sexuality and Empowerment in the Surrealist World
2015–2016
University of Florida
Anthropology
Offshore States: Deepwater Governance in the Western Gulf of Guinea
2019–2020
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Sociology
Reinventing Family: The Rise of Nonnormative Households in South Korea
2010–2011
Bunting Fellow
Brandeis University
Music Composition
Composition of a Chamber Opera and Other Chamber Works
2015–2016
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
University of British Columbia (Canada)
Religion
Constructing a Feminist Shari’a: Reimagining ‘A’isha—the Messenger of the Prophet of Islam
2007–2008
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of Southern California
Multidisciplinary
Analytical Listening Through Interactive Visualization
2019–2020
Saint Louis University
Sociology
The Influence of Social Problems on Health Care and Legal Fields: Examining the Opioid Epidemic’s Impact on Professional Work
2005–2006
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
The Suburban Trilogy: Part 3 "Surf + Turf"
2001–2002
University of California, Berkeley
Sociology
Paradoxes in Psychoanalytic Practice
2005–2006
Brown University
Cultural Studies
Sentimental Fabulations: Magical/Critical Thinking, Contemporary Chinese Films
2015–2016
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Chemistry
Deciphering the Biosynthetic Code of Terpenoid Chemodiversity
2002–2003
Brown University
Cultural Studies
Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics
2001–2002
University of Colorado at Boulder
Women's and Gender Studies
Tradition in the Making: The Contradictory Implications of Indigenous Tradition for Native American and Native Canadian Women
2004–2005
Grass Fellow
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Tight Junction Function
2008–2009
University of California, Los Angeles
Cultural Studies
Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde
2008–2009
University of Texas at Austin
History
Reading Beauvoir: The Second Sex in the Postwar World
2013–2014
The Ohio State University
Law
Markets, Supermarkets, and the Law and Politics of Food in India
2012–2013
Harvard Law School
Law
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
2005–2006
American Fellow
Syracuse University
History
Smuggling and Empire: The United States, 1870–1917
2001–2002
Harvard University
History
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
Stanford University
Work, Welfare, and Immigration Reform: Migrant Latinas in Boston
2015–2016
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Georgetown University
Multidisciplinary
The People Wanted: Words, Movements, and Egyptian Revolution
2002–2003
The University of Chicago
Anthropology
Policing the Postcolony: Crime, Cultural Justice, and the Problem of Order in South Africa
2002–2003
The University of Chicago
Anthropology
Policing the Postcolony: Crime, Cultural Justice, and the Problem of Order in South Africa
2011–2012
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
Engineering, Poetry, Mapping: Baroque Literature and Cartography in Early Modern France
2010–2011
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Wellesley College
Biology
Color: Neural Mechanisms and Art Practice
2004–2005
State University of New York at Buffalo
Cultural Studies
Kiarostami's Reserve: Shame, Cinema, and the Social Bond
2016–2017
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Political Science
Japanese Firms, Industrial Systems, and Investments in Africa
2004–2005
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow
Western Carolina University
Biology
The Other Insect Societies: Reconsidering the Insect Sociality Paradigm
2007–2008
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
Youngstown State University
Physics
Multiphoton Quantum Optics of Dilute Alkali Vapors
2003–2004
2002–2003
Frieda L. Miller Fellow (2003-2004)
Dartmouth College
Political Science
Diversification of the Federal Courts: The Effects of Sex and Race on Judicial Behavior
2007–2008
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Familiars
2012–2013
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Musicology
Digital Musicology of Late-Medieval Polyphony
2019–2020
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Harvard University
Music
Fast Darkness
2004–2005
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Sociology
Creating Ethnicity: Multiracialism as Marketing Tool and Target
2017–2018
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Hashemite University (Jordan)
Biology and Medical Sciences
Five Scarves: Doing the Impossible—If We Can Reverse Cell Fate, Why Can’t We Redefine Success for Women?
2007–2008
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Independent Artist
Dance
The Body Speaks—Capturing Martha Graham's Dance Art
2017–2018
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
History
Publishing and Pirating in 18th-Century France and Switzerland
2013–2014
Joy Foundation Fellow
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
History
Gendering Nation States: South Eastern Europe, 19th–20th Centuries
2006–2007
Harvard School of Public Health
Medical Sciences
Milk, Dairy Intake, and Risk of Endometrial Cancer: A Twenty-Two-Year Follow-Up
2010–2011
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Boardroom: The Company of Objects
2004–2005
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Women's and Gender Studies
Transnational Knowledges, Transnational Politics: Making Our Bodies, Ourselves
2000–2001
Berkshire Summer Fellow, Bunting Program
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Women's and Gender Studies
Three Decades of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Feminist Body Politics in (Trans)Cultural Perspective
2009–2010
The New School
Nonfiction
Do You Know Who I Am? Stories of Wealth and Poverty from the New India
2005–2006
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
University of California, Irvine
Computer Science
Strategies for High Performance, Graph-Based Reasoning
2018–2019
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Willamette University
Literature
Acts of Naturalization: Immigration and the Early Novel
2018–2019
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (Netherlands)
Nonfiction
Why Would "We" Help "Them"? The Politics of Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean Sea
2004–2005
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
University of Kent (UK)
Law
Religious Absolutism and Secular Normativity
2006–2007
Yale University
History
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
2018–2019
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Effects of the Earth Surface on the Dynamics of Earthquakes
2015–2016
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard Law School
Law
Designing Money in Early America: Experiments in Political Economy (1680–1775)
2010–2011
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
FESNOJIV (El Sistema) (Venezuela)
Music Composition
A Coffee Opera
2001–2002
Williams College
Political Science
Traditional Cultures and Liberal Constitutions
2014–2015
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Visual Arts
New Monuments to Forget the Future
2013–2014
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Astronomy
Filaments, Flows, and the Formation of Very Massive Galaxies
2019–2020
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
Engineering Sciences
Toward Speech Recognition of the Italian Language Based on Detection of Landmarks and Other Acoustic Cues to Features
2012–2013
Boston University
Playwriting or Screenwriting
Victoria's Sarah (An Original Play); Completion of Smart People
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
2018–2019
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Biology and Medical Sciences
Oncology Care in the Genomic Era
2019–2020
Radcliffe-Film Study Center Fellow
Process Reversal
Film and Video
The Systems of Touching
2012–2013
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Computer Science
Probabilistically Checkable Proofs, Inapproximability, and Robustness
2014–2015
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (France)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Fire, Next Time
2016–2017
Indiana University
Musicology
Un/Sound Music, Un/Stable Ground: Music, Disaster, and Development in Haiti
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
Harvard University
Sociology
Seeking the Ground Truth in Low-Income America: Data That Come in Whispers. Interpretive Focus Groups: Analysis by the People Who Live the Lives Under Study.
2002–2003
Harvard University
Biology
Stem Cells and Their Niche in the Adult Mammalian Brain
2006–2007
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Princeton University
Art History
Homesickness for Things
2009–2010
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Musicology
The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre, 1750–1810
2005–2006
UCLA School of Law
Law
The Eighth Amendment, Judicial Deference, and Constitutional Interpretation
2010–2011
Yale University
Computer Science
Sketch-Based Exploration of the Relationship Between Built Form and Landscape
2007–2008
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
History
Between Kin and Court: Gender, Property, and the Praxis of Islamic Law
2000–2001
Schlesinger Library
Tufts University
History
Enterprising Women: The Business Women of America, 1750–2000
2001–2002
University of Bremen (Germany)
Sociology
Ties Between Lives: Interrelated Life Courses and Individual Careers
2018–2019
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Tufts University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Political Geometry: The Mathematics of Redistricting
2013–2014
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Olympia (2012)
2015–2016
Harvard Medical School
Medical Sciences
Brain Rewards, Plasticity, and Consumption: The Neurobiology of Sustainable Behavior
2018–2019
Shutzer Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics
Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Data Sets
2018–2019
2017–2018
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Computer Science
Finding Fairness
2018–2019
2017–2018
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Computer Science
Finding Fairness
2017–2018
Rutgers University
Literature
The Other Side of Terror: Blackness and the Culture of US Empire
2016–2017
Boston Globe
Nonfiction
Memorials in Sound: Music, War, and Collective Memory
2018–2019
Robert G. James Scholar Fellow
Northeastern University
Sociology
Policing, Masculinities of the State, and Political Transition in Turkey
2014–2015
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Harvard University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Shimura Curve Computations
2012–2013
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Harvard University
History
The End of the British Empire after the Second World War
2006–2007
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
History
Darwinian Conversions: Science and Religion in the Arab Eastern Mediterranean, 1850–1950
2016–2017
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Spain)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Longa Noite (A Long Night)
2012–2013
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Brandeis University
History
The Global Politics of the Modern: India and the Three Worlds of the Cold War
2010–2011
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
Law
Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Adolescents: Health, Law, and Human Rights
2000–2001
Bunting Program/Schlesinger Library
Clark University
Political Science
"Climates" and "Cultures": What Feminists See When They Look at Women's Lives Inside the State
2016–2017
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Northwestern University
Sociology
Sexual Health as Buzzword: Histories of Emergence and Politics of Proliferation
2010–2011
Grass Fellow
Brandeis University
Chemistry
Cross-Diffusion and Pattern Formation in Chemical, Biological, Ecological, and Social Systems
2015–2016
Robert G. James Scholar at Risk Fellow
Independent Scholar (Guatemala)
Law
The Relation among Judicial Independence, Separation of Powers, and Corruption
2016–2017
Hrdy Fellow
Bard College
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Rethinking the American Diet: Optimally Unifying Environmental and Nutritional Sciences
2006–2007
Northwestern University
Sociology
Commensurate Worlds: How We Do Things with Numbers
2008–2009
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Maryland at College Park
Engineering Sciences
Robust Speech Recognition
2005–2006
The Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Political Science
Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: Explaining Occupational Segregation by Gender in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
2004–2005
Wellesley College
Political Science
Travel, Theory, and the Search for Knowledge: Western and Islamic Journeys to "The Other Shore"
2006–2007
Independent Scholar
Art History
Weaving Christ's Body: Clothing, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium
2017–2018
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
iOpenEye Ltd (Nigeria), Aspen Global Leadership Network
Playwriting or Screenwriting
Who Would Choose to Be LGBT and Nigerian!?
2008–2009
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Independent Writer
Nonfiction
Mother-Daughter Relations and Their Effect on US Feminism
2017–2018
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
New York University
Computer Science
A Graphical System for Computer-Assisted Composition
2019–2020
Joy Foundation Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
African American Studies
"Queen Mother" Audley Moore: Radical Black Internationalist
2019–2020
University of Notre Dame
Multidisciplinary
Play and Counterplay: Dramatic Modes of Action in and alongside the Medieval Liturgy
2014–2015
American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Urban and Regional Planning
When the Plan Fails and Urban Regulations Are Bypassed: Narrating Beirut from Its Peripheries
2012–2013
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Yale University
Visual Arts
The Enigma Machine 2012–2013
2001–2002
Murray Research Center
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Beyond Landscape: Chaos and Order
2002–2003
Harvard University
Literature
The Great World Without: The Sentimental Fictions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century England and France
2018–2019
Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow
University of Virginia
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Generational and Racial Conflict in the US Women's Rights Movement, 1870–1920
2009–2010
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Yale University
Astronomy
Searching for Earths in the Alpha Centauri System
2008–2009
Indiana University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Quasi-isometry Classification of Groups and Graphs
2008–2009
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
University of New Hampshire
History
Where We Were in '68: Presidential Politics and American Ideals
2005–2006
Helen Putnam Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Medical Sciences
All in Your Head: Brain Mechanisms of Denial and Disease
2002–2003
Cornell University
Physics
The Gravitational Wave Signatures of Black Holes
2012–2013
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Biology
From Geometry to Time and Compositionality: Movement Representations in the Brain
2009–2010
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Boston College
European History
Living and Dying in Early Medieval Britain
2019–2020
Helen Putnam Fellow
UCLA
Statistics
Understanding the Brain: Mathematics of Complex Networks
2018–2019
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
University of Delaware
African American Studies
The Glamorous Life: Socialite-Activists and the Black Freedom Struggle from World War II to the Age of Obama
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
Harvard University
Multidisciplinary
Participation of Women in the Design and Implementation of Information Technologies
2018–2019
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
with it which it as it if it is to be (Part II)
2015–2016
Independent Artist (United Kingdom)
Visual Arts
Research and Experimentation toward New Works
2013–2014
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
University at Buffalo
Literature
Cultural Revolution in Ashkenaz: The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature
2007–2008
University of Southern California
Computer Science
Analytical Listening Through Interactive Visualization
2007–2008
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
University of New Hampshire
Religion
Worlds of Christianization in Late Antique Egypt
2004–2005
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
Harvard University
Physics
Measuring This Particular Elegant Universe
2013–2014
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
University of Minnesota
Literature
Rewriting the Human in 12th-Century France: Matter, Form, Time
2008–2009
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Religion
Televised Redemption: Religion, Media, and Racial Uplift in the Black Atlantic World
2019–2020
University of Toronto (Canada)
Biology and Medical Sciences
Mutualism in the Microbiome Era
2013–2014
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
New York University
Literature
Worlds Enough: Fictionality and Reference in the 19th-Century Novel
2011–2012
Burkhardt Fellow
Dartmouth College
Geography
Diet for a Warm Planet: Debating the Future Map of Food
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Dartmouth College
Geography
Feeding on Fear: Food Scares and the Restructuring of International Fresh Food Commodity Chains
2009–2010
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
History of Science, Technology, or Medicine
Building Crashing Thinking
2015–2016
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
University of Hong Kong (China)
Literature
"Isn’t It Funny!" Comic Representations of China, 1880–1945
2018–2019
Radcliffe-Stellenbosch Fellow/Hrdy Fellow
University of Ghana (Ghana)
Biology and Medical Sciences
Disability and Reproduction in Africa
2011–2012
Maury Green Fellow
Emory University
Cultural Studies
Habitable Worlds: Eugenic Spaces and Democratic Spaces
2018–2019
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
The New School
Film and Video
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
2013–2014
Harvard University
Political Science
Policy and Patronage: The Distributive Politics of American Housing Policy
2009–2010
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Independent Composer
Music Composition
"SU-O" for Voices and Orchestra
2016–2017
Helen Putnam Fellow
Brandeis University
Biology
Single-Molecule Visualization of Messenger RNA Synthesis and Maturation
2018–2019
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (France)
Music
Old Stories, New Stories—The Body's Voices
2018–2019
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History
In the Name of the Colony: The Revolt against the Indies Company in Haiti, 1720–1725
2010–2011
Bowdoin College
Nationality, Religion, and Church-State Symphony: An Ethnographic Study of Secularisms in Southeastern Europe
2019–2020
Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow
Wayne State University
History
The 19th Amendment and the Politics of Race, 1920–1970
2014–2015
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Nacre as a Paleotemperature Proxy
2000–2001
Bunting Program
State University of New York at Buffalo
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
The Henrietta Lacks Film Project
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Harvard Medical School
Medical Sciences
Entry of Polyoma Virus into Host Cells
2007–2008
Bunting Fellow
Wellesley College
Classics/Ancient Languages
Landscapes of Desire in Classical Athenian Literature
2000–2001
Schlesinger Library
Yale University
History
The Second Civil War: The South, The Nation, and the World, 1915-1955
2008–2009
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
Cornell University
Physics
Applied Open Access
2005–2006
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Transitions: Career and Family in the Life Cycles of College Men and Women
2005–2006
Augustus Anson Whitney Fellow
University of Michigan
Materials Science
Directed Matrix Seeding of Semiconductor Nanostructure Arrays
2011–2012
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Washington Post
Journalism
Slipping Downhill: How Changes in the US Economy Are Transforming Lives and Reshaping our National Identity
2006–2007
Frieda L. Miller Fellowship
Independent Scholar
Fiction
Disenchantment of the World: A Novel
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
University of Southern Maine
Economics
Fast Lane Training in Internet-Mediated Business Services
2017–2018
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Computer Science
Using Advanced Cryptographic Methods to Enable Medical Discoveries
2011–2012
Cornell University
Computer Science
Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society
2016–2017
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Harvard University
Astronomy
The Prediction Project
2012–2013
Joy Foundation Fellow
University of Oregon
Asian History
Economics and the New Chinese Republic: Sovereignty, Capitalism, and Freedom
2013–2014
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
New York University
History
Social Movements in the 20th-Century United States: Modeling Historical Analysis
2007–2008
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Harvard University
History
Stitching in Modern Times
2001–2002
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Musicology
Monteverdi's Unruly Women
2015–2016
2013–2014
2012–2013
2011–2012
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
History
"The Most Blessed of Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
2015–2016
2013–2014
2012–2013
2011–2012
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
History
"The Most Blessed of Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
2015–2016
2013–2014
2012–2013
2011–2012
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
History
"The Most Blessed of Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
2015–2016
2013–2014
2012–2013
2011–2012
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
History
"The Most Blessed of Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
2007–2008
Vera M. Schuyler Institute Fellow
Independent Writer
Nonfiction
Emma Goldman
2011–2012
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Radical Tourists in Soviet Photographic Utopia
2016–2017
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Brown University
Political Science
The Political Ethics of the Strike
2015–2016
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow/David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (France)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Unrest
2013–2014
Perrin Moorhead and Bruns Grayson Fellow
The Hypocrites Theater Company
Playwriting or Screenwriting
All Our Tragic
2011–2012
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italy)
Anthropology
Skilled Visions: Critical Ecologies of Belonging
2009–2010
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Discrete Rigidity Phenomena
2009–2010
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Choice, Rationality, and Welfare Measurement
2001–2002
Arizona State University
History
The School of Salerno: Medicine and Culture in the Twelfth Century
2018–2019
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Syracuse University
Fiction
Liberty
2004–2005
University of Washington
Psychology
The Legal Design of Equality Based on the Science of Ordinary Prejudice
2010–2011
2009–2010
Harvard Stem Cell Institute Radcliffe Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biology
New Approaches to Probing Autocrine Growth Factor Loops in Stem Cells
2010–2011
2009–2010
Harvard Stem Cell Institute Radcliffe Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biology
New Approaches to Probing Autocrine Growth Factor Loops in Stem Cells
2017–2018
City University of New York
Biology and Medical Sciences
Biodiversity and Biomechanics of Gelatinous Zooplankton: An Investigation at the Intersection of Biology, Engineering, Genomics, and Soft Robotics
2017–2018
Independent Writer
Creative Writing
Your Music When the Sun Go Down: A History, 1945–1960
2006–2007
Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Fund Fellow
Independent Writer
Journalism
Many Mexicos, a Lot of Songs: How Culture Grows
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Children's Hospital Boston
Medical Sciences
Cloning of Mammalian Liver Iron Transporter, DMT2
2017–2018
Frances B. Cashin Fellow
University of California, Santa Cruz
Geography
Wilted: Verticillium dahliae in the Making and Unmaking of California’s Strawberry Industry
2008–2009
La Donna Musicale (United States)
Music
The Artistic Development of Repertory for Concerts, Educational Performances, and Recordings of Early Music Written by Women Composers
2017–2018
Independent Journalist
Journalism
The Mad Cartoonists of Cairo: The Dangerous World of Middle East Censorship and the Emergence of Arab Comix
2014–2015
Australian National University (Australia)
History
History without Account: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand since 1932
2018–2019
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow
Yale University
Political Science
Fault Lines: How the New Geography of Prosperity and Partisanship Are Remaking American Politics
2017–2018
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Brown University
History
Freedom's Cost: Children and Youth in the Black Freedom Struggle
2011–2012
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Literature
Yorkshire Writers: Provincial Literary Communities in Late Medieval England
2008–2009
Burkhardt Fellow
New York University
Comparative Literature
Theater after Film
2010–2011
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Asian History
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales: A Catholic Village in China, 1700–2000
2017–2018
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Political Science
Fatima Meer: A Free Mind
2005–2006
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Rice University
History
Christians and Jews at the Time of the First Crusade: Contours of Interactions
2012–2013
Perrin Moorhead and Bruns Grayson Fellow
Independent Writer (United Kingdom)
Nonfiction
A Strange Romance: Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli
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
2018–2019
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anthropology
The Book of Waves: An Anthropologist Reads Physical Oceanography
2014–2015
Maury Green Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cultural Studies
Firing Line, PBS, and the Rise of the American Conservative Movement
2011–2012
Bunting Fellow
Columbia University
Musicology
Acoustic Orpheus: Opera and Early Sound Recording, 1877 to 1906
2000–2001
Bunting Program
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers University
History
Embodied Memory: Medicine and the American Civil War
2015–2016
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor
Harvard University
History
Normativity and Its Discontents: The Shaping and Reshaping of Law in Europe from Classical to Modern Times
2007–2008
Constance E. Smith Fellow
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Architecture
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and the Vicissitudes of Modern Architecture
2017–2018
Grass Fellow
Clark University
Biology and Medical Sciences
Mushrooms in the Tree of Life
2019–2020
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Barnard College
Art History
Style Revolution
2014–2015
Suzanne Young Murray Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Psychology
Authentic Bridge Building: Families, Institutions, and the Breaking of Social Status Replication
2010–2011
Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Psychology
Cultural Worldviews and Belief Systems: A Nuanced Understanding of Ethnic Heterogeneity in Family Dynamics and Children's Development
2017–2018
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Architecture
"Memories from Resistance": Women, War, and the Forgotten Work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 1919–1989
2013–2014
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Physics
Enabling Nanoscale Imaging of Complex Oxides through Novel Film Growth Techniques
2009–2010
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Choice, Rationality, and Welfare Measurement
2007–2008
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
University of Helsinki (Finland)
Biology
Functional Hierarchy and Function Determining Residues of Protein Families
2018–2019
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Simon Fraser University
Film and Video
imał, or the Origin of Death
2000–2001
Schlesinger Library
Smith College
History
Sexual Representation and Censorship
2005–2006
Independent Writer
Nonfiction
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World from Viking Vinland to Pilgrim Plymouth
2007–2008
American Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering Sciences
Swimming, Crawling, and Burrowing: Optimization of Low Re Locomotion
2019–2020
Robert G. James Fellow
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa)
Fiction
Outcomes: Approaching the Psychology of Sexual Identity Politics in the Postcolonial Arena
2002–2003
New School University
Political Science
Equal Representation in Latin America: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Democratic Politics
2001–2002
Wellesley College
Physics
The Critical Role of Flow-Modified Permittivity in Electrorheology
2018–2019
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Political Science
Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
2015–2016
Helen Putnam Fellow
Bowling Green State University
Biology
Intersectional Genetics in Behavior: A Novel Approach to Dissecting the Mechanisms of Aggression in Drosophila
2019–2020
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Konstfack (Sweden)
Visual Arts
Queer Death: A Theater of Unsolved Problems
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
2005–2006
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
History
"The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights": Slave and Free Black Marriages in the Nineteenth Century
2015–2016
Northwestern University
Political Science
Ruling before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia
2012–2013
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
University College London (United Kingdom)
Literature–Romance Languages
Compassion in Common: Narratives of Fellow-Feeling in Early Modern France
2008–2009
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Aries Law Firm (Nigeria)
Women's and Gender Studies
Women, Justice, and Sharia Law
2001–2002
Harvard University
Asian Literature
Writing Women in Imperial China: Lives and Works
2016–2017
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Independent Composer (Poland)
Music
Cities of Salt: Opera in Three Acts
2004–2005
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visual Arts
Intimate Architecture
2018–2019
Grass Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
Biology and Medical Sciences
The Evolution and Adaptation of Spatial Cognitive Skills
2008–2009
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Challenges of Conservative Governance Since the 1970s
2012–2013
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Comparative Literature
Classic Black: Art Songs and Poetry in the Black Atlantic
2010–2011
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charity, Security, and Disparities: Haitian Quests for Asylum
2010–2011
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Boston University
Literature
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The First African American Poet Laureate
2005–2006
Institute of Public Health at Jagiellonian University - Collegium Medicum (Poland)
Anthropology
The Fragile Wisdom of the Female Body: An Evolutionary View of Trade-Offs in Health and Disease
2011–2012
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
University of Toronto (Canada)
Astronomy
Extreme Worlds: Close-In and Far-Out Extrasolar Planets
2017–2018
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Rutgers University
Visual Arts
Plant You Now, Dig You Later: New Work and Research
2011–2012
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
East China Normal University (China)
Asian History
The City and the Revolution: Shanghai under the Communists
2019–2020
Brandeis University
History
Nazi Victim, Holocaust Survivor, and War Criminal? The Ambiguous Trials of Stella Goldschlag in Postwar Germany
2010–2011
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
History
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley's Cotton Kingdom
2019–2020
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Morehouse School of Medicine
Biology and Medical Sciences
Tools for a National Campaign against Racism
2013–2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Art History
Desires for the World Picture: The Global Work of Art
2010–2011
International Medical Corps (United Kingdom)
Nonfiction
Outside the Asylum: A Child Psychiatrist?s Memoir of Working in Conflict and Disaster
2016–2017
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Independent Artist (Lebanon)
Visual Arts
Under-Writing Beirut—Ouzaï
2013–2014
Bogaziçi University (Turkey)
Architecture
Urban Imaginaries in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Exploring the Dialogics of Word, Image, and Space
2015–2016
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Western Washington University
Fiction
To Weave with Water: A Novel-in-Progress
2010–2011
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Medical Sciences
Structure and Function of Novel Lipids in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
2019–2020
Shutzer Assistant Professor
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architecture
Representation and Materialization of Interdisciplinary Matter
2018–2019
Stanley A. Marks and William H. Marks Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Economics
Global Transport Markets: Efficiency and Impact on World Trade
2006–2007
Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan
Law
International Human Rights Law in Uzbekistan
2006–2007
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
Brandeis University
History
A Tale of Seven Cities: The Life and Times of Gilbert Stuart
2011–2012
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Bar Ilan University (Israel)
Computer Science
Curing Robot Autism
2002–2003
University of Wisconsin–Madison
History
Origins of the Deep North: The Radical Reconstruction of Massachusetts, 1854–1889
2007–2008
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Religion
Ethiopian Christian Creativity in Transnational Perspective
2012–2013
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Independent Writer (Greece)
Fiction
Tales of Extremes
2004–2005
Ford Foundation International Fellow, jointly sponsored by the Harvard Scholar-at-Risk Program
Independent Scholar
Law
A Comparison of the Constitutional and Institutional Processes in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Democratic Parliamentary Systems
2012–2013
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (Germany)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Maybe Rauff
2016–2017
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
University of Notre Dame
Literature
Medieval Marvels and Fictions
2005–2006
Ford Foundation International Fellow
University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Biology
Study of Genetic Diversity of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria Parasites in Sri Lanka
2005–2006
Harvard University
Economics
Transitions: Career and Family in the Life Cycles of College Men and Women
2001–2002
Independent Scholar
Women's and Gender Studies
Gender and Global Reproductive Health Politics
2014–2015
ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow
Trinity University (Texas)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
A Dynamic Frame: The Moving Camera, Hollywood Narrative, and American Modernity
2001–2002
Harvard University
Psychology
Bulimic Syndromes: Secular and Longitudinal Trends
2004–2005
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History of Science, Technology, or Medicine
Development, Intersubjectivity, and Dynamical Systems
2004–2005
Sargent-Faull Fellow
John Kelly & Company
Theater Performance
Recycling My Muse While Musing on Caravaggio
2002–2003
University of Iowa
History
Through Women's Eyes: An Alternative American History
2016–2017
Robert G. James Scholar at Risk Fellow
Seoul National University (South Korea)
Law
The Challenges of Development of Intellectual Creative Works of the Oromo under Copyright Law of Ethiopia
2001–2002
Wellesley College
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Geometry of Symmetric Spaces, Solvable Groups, and Harmonic Manifolds
2001–2002
Columbia University
History
Refracting the Lens of History: American Culture and the Gendered Prism
2017–2018
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norway)
Visual Arts
Twenty-Two Hours
2016–2017
Maury Green Fellow
New York University
Anthropology
Sacred Sacrilege: Religion and the View from Caribbean Obeah and Hosay
2006–2007
Duke University
Women's and Gender Studies
Asylum: The Concept and the Practice
2000–2001
Bunting Program
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Visual Arts
Off White
2017–2018
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Sociology
Tethered Lives: How the Male Breadwinner Norm Constrains Men and Women
2008–2009
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (South Korea)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
In Search of a State of Mind
2007–2008
Catholics for a Free Choice
Nonfiction
How to Think about Abortion: Pro-choice Reflections on Rights and Responsibility
2015–2016
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow
Brown University
Computer Science
Applying Planarity-Exploiting Algorithms to Spatial Problems in Computational Social Science
2005–2006
Burkhardt Fellow
Rutgers University
Literature
The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature
2009–2010
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Fluxus Around the Clock
2018–2019
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
The Ohio State University
Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics
Understanding the Deaths of Massive Stars
2017–2018
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Classics/Ancient Languages
Total History: Time, Empire, and Resistance from Alexander the Great to the End of the World
2016–2017
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Engineering Sciences
Imprecise Computational Science: Closing Gaps, Forming Alloys
2006–2007
Burkhardt Fellow
The University of Chicago
History
The "Indian Community" in Mexican Social Thought
2015–2016
Joy Foundation Fellow
Fordham University
History
Living by the Sea: An Ethnography of Maritime Communities in Medieval England
2010–2011
Hrdy Fellow
Harvard University
Anthropology
Evolutionary Perspectives on Childhood and the Human Capacity for Population Growth
2009–2010
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
2013–2014
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Water, Health, and Human Behavior
2004–2005
University of California, Berkeley
Law
The Legal Design of Equality Based on the Science of Ordinary Prejudice
2013–2014
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Knots and Instantons
2008–2009
Hrdy Fellow
Washington University in St. Louis
Political Science
The Global Diffusion and Impact of Candidate Gender Quotas
2000–2001
Radcliffe Public Policy Center
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Multidisciplinary
Design as Work/Work as Design
2000–2001
Schlesinger Library
Williams College
History
Outlaw Desire: Prison Sexual Culture in the United States
2012–2013
University of Washington
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Quantification of Perception in Pattern Recognition and Sensory Systems: A Mathematical Framework Using Dimensionality Reduction
2019–2020
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of Connecticut School of Law
Law
Epidemiology and the Future of Tort Law
2013–2014
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Drawing Time: The 18th-Century Reinvention of a Medium
2010–2011
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Just Art: Imagining Art’s Efficacy
2006–2007
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Harvard University
Sociology
Cream Rising: Finding Excellence in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
2000–2001
Frieda L. Miller Fellow, Bunting Program
Harvard University
Religion
Dancing Religion: The Technique and Choreography of Martha Graham
2011–2012
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Sociology
Parenting in the Context of Globalization
2010–2011
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Sun Microsystems
Computer Science
Civilian Control of Cybersecurity
2017–2018
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Harvard Law School
History
Crime and Justice in Democratic Athens
2004–2005
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
Brandeis University
Women's and Gender Studies
Sapphic Subjects and the Making of Modernity
2015–2016
New York University
Music
Studies in Sonic Translation and Transformation, and the Composition of Three Musical Works
2012–2013
Shutzer Fellow
Towson University
Computer Science
Locked Out: Investigating Societal Discrimination against People with Disabilities Due to Inaccessible Websites
2008–2009
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
University of Arizona
Sociology
Interdisciplinarity and Inequality
2006–2007
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Rutgers University
History
The Summer of '44: Farming for Freedom
2018–2019
Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellow
Independent Writer
Fiction
American Hagwon
2017–2018
Hilles Bush Fellow
Boston University
Literature
Overwhelming Words: Literature, Aesthetics, and the 19th-Century Information Revolution
2011–2012
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom)
History
Managing Uncertainty: Death and Memory in Modern South Africa
2001–2002
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Fiction
Emerson and Thoreau: The Winter of 1842
2016–2017
University of Oregon
Multidisciplinary
Weathering: Toward a Sustainable Humanities
2017–2018
Hrdy Fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Biology and Medical Sciences
The Evolution of Gene Expression
2019–2020
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow
Harvard University
History
If/Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
2018–2019
University of Iowa
Music
Again Not the Same River: A Cycle of Four Compositions