Announcing 2017-18 Radcliffe Institute Fellows
A Radcliffe Institute fellowship can propel the career of a junior scientist, foster a year of creativity for a mid-career artist, give a diplomat time to write, and provide an established scientist with a chance to start new research. The more than 50 women and men in the new Radcliffe fellowship class are doing this and more as they pursue work across the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. “It is always wonderful to announce our incoming fellows and celebrate the 4 percent of applicants who were accepted,” said Radcliffe Institute Dean Lizabeth Cohen RI ’02, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies. “But it’s even more exciting when they arrive in the fall and start working on their projects and sharing their ideas with one another and the public.” The fellowship class includes: Cultural historian Robert Darnton (Joy Foundation Fellow), the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, Emeritus, and...