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Current Fellows

Joanna Aizenberg
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard University
Bioengineering
Biomimetics and Quantitative Biology: Conceptual Interpretation and Mathematical Modeling of the Adaptive Design Strategies in Biological Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms

Angela Ards
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
Southern Methodist University
Cultural Studies Theory and Practice
Affirmative Acts: The Ethics of Self-Fashioning in Contemporary African American Women's Autobiography

Donald Berman
Tufts University
Musical Performance
Dead or Alive: Resurrecting Forgotten Treasures from the Harvard Music Libraries and Performing Them

Daphne A. Brooks
Princeton University
American Studies
Subterranean Blues: Black Feminist Musical Subcultures—from Minstrelsy to the Post–Hip Hop Era

Caroline Bruzelius
Duke University
Architectural History
The Dead Come to Town: Preaching, Burying, and Building in the Medieval City

Margot Canaday
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Princeton University
North American History
Perverse Ambitions, Deviant Careers: A Queer History of the American Workplace, 1900–2000

Yu-Hui Chang
Bunting Fellow
Brandeis University
Music Composition
Composition of a Chamber Opera and Other Chamber Works

Bevil Conway
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Wellesley College
Neuroscience
Color: Neural Mechanisms and Art Practice

Taylor Davis
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Artist (United States)
Visual Arts
Boardroom: The Company of Objects

Paul Desenne
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
FESNOJIV (El Sistema) (Venezuela)
Music Composition
A Coffee Opera

Julie Dorsey
Yale University
Computer Science
Sketch-Based Exploration of the Relationship Between Built Form and Landscape

Abigail English
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Center for Adolescent Health & the Law
Law
Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Adolescents: Health, Law, and Human Rights

Irving R. Epstein
Grass Fellow
Brandeis University
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Cross-Diffusion and Pattern Formation in Chemical, Biological, Ecological, and Social Systems

Kristen Ghodsee
Bowdoin College
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Nationality, Religion, and Church-State Symphony: An Ethnographic Study of Secularisms in Southeastern Europe

Daniel Gilbert
Maury Green Fellow
Harvard University
Personality and Social Psychology
Reality, the Movie

Linda G. Griffith
Harvard Stem Cell Institute Radcliffe Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioengineering
New Approaches to Probing Autocrine Growth Factor Loops in Stem Cells

Henrietta Harrison
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Asian History
The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales: A Catholic Village in China, 1700–2000

Nancy E. Hill
Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Developmental Psychology
Cultural Worldviews and Belief Systems: A Nuanced Understanding of Ethnic Heterogeneity in Family Dynamics and Children's Development

Anna Maria Hong
Bunting Fellow
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Poetry
The Green Box

Evan Horowitz
University of North Texas
English Literature
Literature and the Question of Beauty

Erica Caple James
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Charity, Security, and Disparities: Haitian Quests for Asylum

Gene Andrew Jarrett
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Boston University
English Literature
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The First African American Poet Laureate

Walter Johnson
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
North American History
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery, Capitalism, and Imperialism in the Mississippi Valley’s Cotton Kingdom

Ann Jones
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Writer (United States)
Nonfiction and Current Issues
When War Comes Home

Lynne Jones
International Medical Corps (United Kingdom)
Memoir
Outside the Asylum: A Child Psychiatrist’s Memoir of Working in Conflict and Disaster

Barbara B. Kahn
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

Karen Kramer
Hrdy Fellow
Harvard University
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Evolutionary Perspectives on Childhood and the Human Capacity for Population Growth

Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Contemporary Art History
Just Art: Imagining Art’s Efficacy

Susan Landau
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Sun Microsystems
Computer Science
Civilian Control of Cybersecurity

Jennifer S. Lerner
Harvard Kennedy School
Personality and Social Psychology
Emotion and Decision Making

Elisabeth Logak
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow and Wyss Visiting Fellow
Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France)
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Biomimetics and Quantitative Biology: Conceptual Interpretation and Mathematical Modeling of the Adaptive Design Strategies in Biological Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms

Irene Lusztig
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
University of California at Santa Cruz
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
The Motherhood Archives

Rose McDermott
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Brown University
Political Science
Sex Differences in Aggression

Kiri Miller
Bunting Fellow
Brown University
Ethnomusicology
Technomusicality: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

Susan Muller
Helen Putnam Fellow
University of California at Berkeley
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Dynamics, Kinetics, and Manipulation of DNA, Vesicles, Capsules, and Cells Via Microfluidic Trapping Flows

Mignon Nixon
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (United Kingdom)
Contemporary Art History
“Sperm Bomb”: Art, Feminism, and the American War in Vietnam

Shankar Raman
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English Literature
Before the Two Cultures: Literature and Mathematics in Early Modern England

David Redmon
Lisa Goldberg Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Carnivalesque Films
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Noah’s Arc

Suzanne Rivecca
Homeless Youth Alliance
Fiction
The Habitants: A Novel of Walt Whitman in New Orleans

Joan Ruderman
Hrdy Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Transgenic Zebrafish Embryos: Versatile Sensors for Environmental Estrogens

Amy Sillman
Independent Artist (United States)
Visual Arts
Painter Painting

Diana Sorensen
Harvard University
Comparative Literature
Geographic Imaginaries for the Twenty-First Century

Kathleen Thelen
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Political Science
The Future of Egalitarian Capitalism, in Light of Its Past

John Tiffany
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Independent Artist (United Kingdom)
Theater Performance
I Speak Therefore I Am

Lev Truskinovsky
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow and Wyss Visiting Fellow
École Polytechnique (France)
Mechanical Engineering
Biomimetics and Quantitative Biology: Conceptual Interpretation and Mathematical Modeling of the Adaptive Design Strategies in Biological Materials, Structures, and Mechanisms

Nick Turse
Columbia University
Nonfiction and Current Issues
Kill Anything That Moves: US War Crimes and Civilian Slaughter during the Vietnam War

Bettina M. Voelker
Colorado School of Mines
Earth and Planetary Science
Do Aquatic Organisms Use Reactive Oxygen Species to Manipulate Their Geochemical Environment?

Barbara Weinstein
Joy Foundation Fellow
New York University
Latin American History
Race, Region, Nation: São Paulo and the Formation of Brazilian National Identities

Graduate Fellows

Eliana Carranza
Harvard University
Development and Labor Economics
Soil Endowments, Production Technology, and Missing Women in India

Adam Ewing
Harvard University
History
Black Star: Diasporic Politics in the Age of Garvey, 1919–1940