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
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
University of Notre Dame
Literature
Medieval Marvels and Fictions
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
2016–2017
Maury Green Fellow
New York University
Anthropology
Sacred Sacrilege: Religion and the View from Caribbean Obeah and Hosay
2016–2017
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Engineering Sciences
Imprecise Computational Science: Closing Gaps, Forming Alloys
2016–2017
University of Oregon
Multidisciplinary
Weathering: Toward a Sustainable Humanities
2016–2017
Frances B. Cashin Fellow
Harvard University
History
The Political Economy of American Civil Rights, 1974–2000
2016–2017
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Education
The Chastened Dream: Social Science, Social Policy, and Social Progress across the 20th Century
2016–2017
Suzanne Young Murray Professor
Harvard Kennedy School
History
Disappearing Acts: The End of White Criminality before the War on Drugs
2016–2017
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Northwestern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Flexibility in Symplectic Geometry and Loose Lagrangians
2016–2017
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Harvard University
Musicology
Black Virtuosos and Civil Rights: Racial Desegregation of the Concert Hall and Opera Stage after World War II
2016–2017
Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Northwestern University
Religion
Violence, Memory, and Religion among Survivors of Clerical Sexual Abuse
2016–2017
Broad Institute
Biology
Using Genetics to Understand the Origin and Spread of the Indo-Europeans
2016–2017
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Saint Louis University–Madrid Campus (Spain)
Anthropology
Blurring Boundaries: Variation and Problems of Categorization in African Pasts
2016–2017
Shutzer Fellow
University of Arizona
Astronomy
The Black Hole Test: Testing Einstein’s General Relativity with Images of Black Holes
2017–2018
2016–2017
2015–2016
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor
Harvard University
Law
Interpreting Early Islamic Law: Texts, Courts, Politics
2016–2017
Montana State University
Art History
Viewers and Other Animals: Formalism and Environmental Aesthetics, 1945–1975
2016–2017
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
The University of Chicago
Sociology
Theorizing Agnes: Transgender Lives and the Disciplines of Gender
2016–2017
Independent Writer
Playwriting or Screenwriting
Witches: A Theatrical Investigation of the Archetype of Witches and the Marginalization of Women as the Other
2016–2017
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering Sciences
Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates
2017–2018
2016–2017
2014–2015
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor
Harvard Kennedy School
Political Science
Individual Responsibilities in the Age of Rights
2016–2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Astronomy
New Eyes on the Early Universe
2016–2017
Emerson College
Anthropology
Worlds of Wonder: Ritual Creativity and Ethical Life in India