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Radcliffe Past and Present
Filling Gaps in Our Understanding of How Cities Began to Rise

Christina Warinner and an international team provide some of the earliest genetic glimpses of the movement and mingling of peoples in West Asia 8,500 years ago.
An Economic Emergency
Eclipsed by Virus, Addiction Still Shadows the Land
Before the Feminist Revolution, This "Messy Experiment" Nurtured Female Talent
Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin were friends and early fellows at the Radcliffe Institute, which supported ambitious creative women at a time when few institutions did.
New Book "The Equivalents" Follows Emergence Of Second Wave Feminism From Radcliffe Institute
Maggie Doherty’s new book explores the significance of the institute’s mission and how it prefigured the women’s liberation movement that would become a defining hallmark of the 1960s.
Tracing an Institute of One’s Own in "The Equivalents"
The poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin were already best friends when they applied for fellowships in the inaugural year of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study.
Health of Democracy Faces Daunting Test
Historian Liette Gidlow RI '20 speaks on the tension between in-person voting and public health as American states scramble to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic.