In the News
Toward the Negotiated City
The redeveloped Government Center, Boston, 1971, and surrounding private buildings. Photo courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed & PartnersLizabeth Cohen, dean emerita of the Radcliffe Institute, presents a history of postwar city building in her new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.
Revisiting Angela Davis
Elizabeth Hinton arranges materials for the Angela Davis exhibit with (from left) Radcliffe arts program manager Meg Rotzel, gallery coordinator Joe Zane, and Pforzheimer fellow Jackie Wang. Photo by Stu RosnerProfessor Elizabeth Hinton is curating an exhibit and conference at the Radcliffe Institue drawing on materials from the Schlesinger Library's Angela Y. Davis archives.
The Sugar That Saturates the American Diet Has a Barbaric History as the "White Gold" That Fueled Slavery
Khalil Gibran Muhammad. Photo by Tony RinaldoRadcliffe Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad traces the sugar industry as part of the 1619 Project, a major initiative from the New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
Archiving Controversial Digital Materials
By documenting social justice movements online, archivists are discovering the need to create collections of born-digital materials related to current events from both the fringe and mainstream.
Radcliffe Mourns the Writer and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison in 2007. Photo by Tony RinaldoToni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is an inspiration to many here at the Institute. She delivered the marquee lecture celebrating the founding of the Radcliffe Institute in 2001, and we honored her with the Radcliffe Medal in 2007.
Research and Everyday Life
Photo by Rose Lincoln, Harvard Staff PhotographerThis summer, Ciara Hervás '21 is collecting historical data on black women’s suffrage organizations for a digital data hub called the Suffrage Portal, part of the Radcliffe Institute's Long 19th Amendment project.
Harvard Reflects on Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong’s Moon Walk
Earth and moon. Courtesy of NASARadcliffe science faculty director Alyssa Goodman and fellow astronomers share recollections of humankind’s first walk on the moon 50 years ago, as well as their thoughts on its wide-ranging legacy.
Jana Prikryl on Creating Home in Poetry, Even in Trump’s America
Jana Prikryl, author of No Matter, Crown/Archetype. Photo by Juliana Sohn/Willy SommaJana Prikryl RI '19 speaks with the Toronto Star about her newest collection, No Matter, "the kind of poetry to read while watching empires tear themselves apart."
So You Think He Can Dance?
Snowball. Photo by Irena SchulzAni Patel RI '19 and his collaborators tracked YouTube sensation Snowball the dancing cockatoo's moves as he boogied to songs by Cyndi Lauper and Queen. The study suggests that humans may not be the only ones who can groove to a beat.
Radcliffe Institute Selects Tap Dancer Ayodele Casel as 2019–2020 Fellow
Photo by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe InstituteAyodele Casel, a disciplined and brave performer who honors the roots of tap dance while pushing the boundaries of the art form, has been named a 2019-2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.