Martha Ackman
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
Mount Holyoke College
Nonfiction
Curveball: Toni Stone's Challenge to Baseball and America

Joanna Aizenberg
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics

Katharina Al-Shamery
Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)
Materials Science
Using Light for Chemical Reactions

Anne E. Becker
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Anthropology
Navigating Body, Self, and Society Across Adolescence: A Mental Health Crisis in Fiji

Wendy Cadge
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Brandeis University
Sociology
Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine

Peter S. Cahn
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
University of Oklahoma
Anthropology
The Great Commission: Direct Sales and Direct Faith

Vicki Caron
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Cornell University
History
Catholic-Jewish Relations in France, 1870–1914

Michelle Clayton
University of California at Los Angeles
Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde

Judith Coffin
University of Texas at Austin
History
Reading Beauvoir: The Second Sex in the Postwar World

Carol Espy-Wilson
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Maryland at College Park
Electrical Engineering
Robust Speech Recognition

Susan Faludi
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Independent Writer (United States)
Nonfiction and Current Issues
Mother-Daughter Relations and Their Effect on US Feminism

David Fisher
Indiana University
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Quasi-isometry Classification of Groups and Graphs

Ellen Fitzpatrick
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
University of New Hampshire
History
Where We Were in ’68: Presidential Politics and American Ideals

Marla Frederick
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Religion
Televised Redemption: Religion, Media, and Social Change in Jamaica and the US South

Paul Ginsparg
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
Cornell University
Physics
Applied Open Access

Laury Gutiérrez
La Donna Musicale (United States)
Music
Artistic Development of Repertory of Early Music by Women Composers

James Haber
Helen Putnam Fellow
Brandeis University
Genetics
Mechanisms of Recombination and DNA Repair

Martin Harries
Burkhardt Fellow
New York University
Comparative Literature
Theater After Film

Hauwa Ibrahim
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Aries Law Firm (Nigeria)
Women’s and Gender Studies
Women, Justice, and Sharia Law

Meg Jacobs
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History
Insiders: The Oil Crisis, Conservative Governance, and the Dismantling of the American State Since the 1970s

Hyun kyung Kim
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Filmmaker (South Korea)
Film/Video Making
In Search of a State of Mind

Mona Lena Krook
Hrdy Fellow
Washington University in St. Louis
Political Science
The Global Diffusion and Impact of Candidate Gender Quotas

Erin Leahey
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
University of Arizona
Sociology
Interdisciplinarity and Inequality

Gwyneth Lewis
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Scholar (Wales)
Poetry
A Hospital Odyssey

Anne Makepeace
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Independent Artist (United States)
Film/Video Making
Âs Nutayuneân—We Still Live Here

Benjamin Markovits
Constance E. Smith Fellow
Royal Holloway, University of London (England)
Fiction
Childish Love

Emanuel Mayer
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
University of Chicago
Classic/Ancient Languages
The Ancient Bourgeoisie: Economics, Urban Planning, and a New Aesthetic, 100 BC–AD 200

Tsevi Mazeh
Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Astronomy
Discovery of Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Multiple Systems

Gail Mazur
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
Emerson College
Poetry
In Another Country

John P. McCormick
American Fellow
University of Chicago
Political Science
Machiavellian Democracy

Elizabeth McCracken
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Independent Writer (United States)
Fiction
The Upstage Cheek

Sarah Messer
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Poetry
Mouse Oracle

Chiori Miyagawa
Bard College
Playwriting
The True Flower: Deity, Warrior, Madwoman, Ghost, and Demon

Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Independent Scholar (Sri Lanka)
Mechanical Engineering
Ground Contact, Force Constrained Robot Locomotion on Soft Terrain Conditions for Humanitarian Demining

Priyamvada Natarajan
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow and Bunting Fellow
Yale University
Astronomy
Probing the Nature of Dark Energy with Gravitational Lensing

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
University of Southern California
American Studies
The Afterlife of War: Between Vietnam and the United States

Rachel Ollivier
École Normale Supérieure (France)
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Representations of p-adic Reductive Groups in Characteristic p

Sheila Patek
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of California Berkeley
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Acoustic Communication in Ancient and Living Seas

Daven Presgraves
Grass Fellow
University of Rochester
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Sex Chromosomes and the Origin of Species

Joanne Rappaport
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Georgetown University
Anthropology
The Meaning of Mestizaje in Early Colonial New Granada

Kay Rhie
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Cornell University
Music
“Songs Without Words” and a Percussion Concerto for the Kalistos Chamber Orchestra

Linda Dairiki Shortliffe
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Stanford University
Medical Sciences
Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Background in Urology

Kathleen Siwicki
Swarthmore College
Neuroscience
Flirt or Flight: The Neuroscience of Social Behavior in Fruit Flies

Jing Tsu
Yale University
Literature
Bend the Mother Tongue: Modern Chinese Literature in Sinophone Context

Manuel Vargas
University of San Francisco
Philosophy
Building Better Beings: Agency and the Circumstances of Responsibility

Koen Vermeir
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
History
The Powers of the Imagination: Subtle Vapours Connecting Body and Soul

Jane Waldfogel
Marion Cabot Putnam Memorial Fellow
Columbia University School of Social Work
Social Sciences
Britain’s War on Poverty

Nicholas Watson
Katherine and Peter Sachs Faculty Associate Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
Balaam’s Ass: Vernacular Theology and the Secularization of England, 1050–1550

Björn Weiler
Aberystwyth University (Wales)
History
Kingship in the Medieval West, 950–1250

Kim M. Williams
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Political Science
Transition: The Politics of Racial and Ethnic Change in Urban America

Guoqi Xu
Kalamazoo College
History
Fusion of Civilizations: Chinese Laborers in France during the Great War and Their Role in China’s Search for Internationalizations

Steven J. Zipperstein
Vera M. Schuyler Institute Fellow
Stanford University
History
A Cultural History of Russian and East European Jewry, 18th Century to the Present