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Striving for a Full Stop to Period Poverty

Hong Yang looking upward, standing in front of a tree.

Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change

An unfinished, dirt-floored basement with cardboard boxes and several ladders scattered about. At the center, a curved brick structure that contains a tomb.

Here Lies Darby Vassall

To the Rescue Homeira Qaderi Ri '22, RI '23, Robert G. James Scholar Fellow / Harvard Magazine
The FT’s 25 Most Influential Women of 2022 Tsitsi Dangarembga RI '23, Joy Foundation Fellow / Financial Times
Why 2 Is the Best Number and Other Secrets from a MacArthur-Winning Mathematician Melanie Matchett Wood RI ’23, Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute / Scientific American

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Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2022

Radcliffe Magazine | Spring/Summer 2022

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News from the Schlesinger Library | Winter 2022

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Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2021

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Radcliffe Magazine | Spring 2021

News from the Schlesinger Library | Winter 2021

An illustration of the year 2020 in which each number includes scenes of working from home, a family around a table, a public protest, and a VOTE sign. These are surrounded by car parts, a headstone, a cat, a vigil, food items, stars and planets hnaging from above, and a raging fire.

Radcliffe Magazine | Fall 2020

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Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

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Saying Their Names

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Sara Bleich Named Vice Provost for Special Projects

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The Myth of the Math Person

History Professor Awarded Humboldt Prize

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Enshrine an Affirmative Right to Vote

Schlesinger Adjusts Plans for Roe v. Wade Commemoration to New Reality

Portrait of Anand Giridharadas

How to Protect Democracy? Don’t Give Up on Your Neighbor.

A crowd of women, with a few holding placards bearing messages about abortion rights; mostly wire hangers with bars avross them, but also one reading "ERA—Equal Rights for the Unborn."

How Roe Got to Be Roe

A woman in a kitchen holds a sword in her right hand and a whole chicken in her left.

Becoming Julia Child

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A Funny Thing Happened in Comedy

A smiling woman holds up a badge-covered sash from a Girl Scout uniform.

A Vision of Universal, though Not Integrated, Sisterhood

A Russian McDonald's, its golden arches followed by the name in Cyrillic script

Surprised by Corporate Reaction against Russia?

Mira Nair, wearing a hat and sunglasses, looks through a lens on set.

Mira Nair Comes Full Circle with Donation of Archive

A drone photo of an archaeological site between a large boulder and tree line.

Was Facebook the Original Social Network? Not by a Long Shot

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Charting the Path of a “Civil Rights Queen”

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Finding Modern Issues in Study of Ancient World

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Bruno Correia

Portrait of Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas

Portrait of Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Horwitz-Willis Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Rebecca Horwitz-Willis

Orit Kedar Photo By Kevin Grady

Orit Kedar

Susan Murphy Photo by Lou Jones

Susan A. Murphy

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Ka Shu (Kenneth) Tam

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Philip Thai

Asila Wardak Photo by Lou Jones

Asila Wardak

31 Jan
2023

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Chilean Constitutional Reform: Mother Nature, Mapuche Women, and Decolonial Perspectives

01 Feb
2023

Maxine Gordon Photo by Lou Jones

Fellows' Presentation

Quartette: Stories from the Lives of Four Women Jazz Musicians—Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott

06 Feb
2023

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Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&) Opening Event

06 Feb
2023 24 Jun
2023

Photo of Mary Lum's "Letter Parts 2"

Mary Lum: The Moving Parts (&)

08 Feb
2023

Portrait of Karen Bakker

Fellows' Presentation

Wiring Gaia in the Anthropocene: “Smart Earth” Digital Technologies and Environmental Futures

16 Feb
2023

Jennifer Boylan Photo by Lou Jones

The Heisenberg Variations: Imagination, Invention, and Uncertainty

22 Feb
2023

Hong Yang Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

Analyzing Earth’s “Fine Prints”: High-Resolution Geological Records Inform Near Future Climate Change

01 Mar
2023

Omar Dewachi Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

When Wounds Travel: Ecologies of War and Healthcare East of the Mediterranean

08 Mar
2023

Jingyi Jessica Li Photo by Tony Rinaldo

Fellows' Presentation

Clarifying the Mysteries of Choosing Statistical and Machine-Learning Methods in Genomics Research

22 Mar
2023

Portrait of Brodwyn Fischer

Fellows' Presentation

Intimate Inequalities: Informality and the Afterlives of Slavery in Recife, Brazil

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Newsmakers | Fall 2022

A tampon casts a dollar-sign-shaped shadow.

Striving for a Full Stop to Period Poverty

Joe Roman stands, arms crossed and holding his glasses in one hand, in front of the moose diorama in the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The Circle of Life

Correia holds up a simple, two-dimensional model of a protein, which is pentagonal.

Powered by Proteins

Ieva Jusionyte stands in front of a brick building in a leather jacket, arms crossed.

Following the Guns South

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Exploring Liminality

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Making It Up As He Goes

My Honorable Parents

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Delight Is Not a Luxury

16 2022 Reading recommendations by Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellows

16 Reading Recommendations from Radcliffe’s 2022–2023 Fellows

Hong Yang looking upward, standing in front of a tree.

Looking to the Past to Understand the Future of Climate Change

Roberto Zariquiey holding up colorful pieces of fabric.

Shifting the Narrative on “Dying” Languages

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