V AROUND THE INSTITUTE
2013–2014 Radcliffe Institute Fellows Writing books, creating art, pioneering research
Arkhat Abzhanov Grass Fellow Harvard University Biology Evolution of the Animal Face: From Principles to Mechanisms Elise Adibi David and Roberta Logie Fellow Independent Artist Visual Arts Painting as Site of Resistance Lucia Allais Frieda L. Miller Fellow Princeton University Architecture Designs of Destruction: Architectural Preservation in the Age of Total War Selim Berker Harvard University Philosophy The Rejection of Epistemic Consequentialism Meredith Blackwell Louisiana State University Biology Fungi in Our Environment: Revision of the Alexopoulos Introductory Mycology Textbook Mary C. Brinton Hrdy Fellow Harvard University Sociology Gender Equity and Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies Amy J. Cohen Ohio State University Law Markets, Supermarkets, and the Law and Politics of Food in India Krassimira Daskalova Joy Foundation Fellow St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia fi (Bulgaria) History Gendering Nation States: South Eastern Europe, 19th–20th Centuries Arjun Dey National Optical Astronomy Observatory Astronomy Filaments, Flows, and the Formation of Very Massive Galaxies
T. Marie Dudman Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow Massachusetts College of Art and Design/ Rhode Island School of Design Film, Video, Sound, and New Media Olympia (2012) Jerold Frakes Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow University at Buff ffalo, the State University of New York Literature Cultural Revolution in Ashkenaz: The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature Mary Franklin-Brown Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow University of Minnesota Literature Rewriting the Human in 12th-Century France: Matter, Form, Time Elaine Freedgood Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow New York University Literature Worlds Enough: Fictionality and Reference in the 19thCentury Novel Claudine Gay Harvard University Political Science Policy and Patronage: The Distributive Politics of American Housing Policy Linda Gordon Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor New York University History Social Movements in the 20th-Century United States: Modeling Historical Analysis Annette Gordon-Reed Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe Harvard University History “The Most Blessed of Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson ff and the Empire of the Imagination
Sean Graney Perrin Moorhead and Bruns Grayson Fellow Hypocrites Theater Company Playwriting or Screenwriting All Our Tragic Jennifer E. Hoffman Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow Harvard University Physics Enabling Nanoscale Imaging of Complex Oxides through Novel Film Growth Techniques Lewis Hyde Evelyn Green Davis Fellow Kenyon College Nonfi fiction A Primer for Forgetting Caroline Jones Massachusetts Institute of Technology Art History The Global Work of Art Cigdem Kafescioglu Bogaziçi University (Turkey) Architecture Urban Imaginaries in the Early Modern Ottoman World: Exploring the Dialogics of Word, Image, and Space Michael Kremer Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow Harvard University Economics Water, Health, and Human Behavior Peter B. Kronheimer Suzanne Young Murray Fellow Harvard University Mathematics and Applied Sciences Knots and Instantons Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow Harvard University Art History Drawing Time: The 18thCentury Reinvention of a Medium Jennifer S. Lerner Harvard Kennedy School Psychology Emotion and Decision Making
David Levine ECLA of Bard (Germany) Visual Arts Character Analysis Pamela Lins David and Roberta Logie Fellow Cooper Union/ Princeton University Visual Arts Come Back Volume and Space Michelle Lou Independent Composer Music The Interstitial and Intertextual in My Music Hanchao Lu William BentinckSmith Fellow Georgia Institute of Technology History Political T’ai-chi at Work: Everyday Shanghai Under Maoism Ruth Mack Walter Jackson Bate Fellow University at Buff ffalo, the State University of New York Literature Habitual Knowledge: Theory and the Everyday in Enlightenment Britain Tomasz Mrowka Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics and Applied Sciences Applications of Gauge Theories to Low Dimensional Topology Vivek Narayanan Independent Writer Poetry The Jewelled Deer: A Writing through Valmiki’s Ramayana David R. Nelson Shutzer Fellow Harvard University Biology Competition and Cooperation in Microorganisms Alex Null Maury Green Fellow Emory University Economics Water, Health, and Human Behavior
Julie Orringer Lisa Goldberg Fellow Independent Writer Fiction The Flight Portfolio: A Novel Francesca Orsini Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow University of London (United Kingdom) Literature The “Multilingual Local” in World Literature Dale Peterson Tufts University Nonfi fiction Before the Crystal Wall: A Story of Love and Death, Chimpanzees, and Science Sarah Pinto ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow Tufts University Anthropology Hysteria in India: The Transnational History of a Medical Idea William F. Pirl Helen Putnam Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Medical Sciences Optimizing the Timing of Discontinuation of Chemotherapy for Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Sophia Roosth Joy Foundation Fellow Harvard University History Synthetic: How Life Got Made David W. Sanford Radcliffe Institute Fellow Mount Holyoke College Music Schwarzes Rauschen for Orchestra
Tadashi Tokieda William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) Mathematics and Applied Sciences Toys in Applied Mathematics Hans Tutschku Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music Harvard University Music Music Composition for Solo Soprano, Chamber Orchestra, and Live Electronics, Based on Poetry by Karl Lubomirski Steven Wilf Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow University of Connecticut Law Intellectual Property Law in America Anna Zayaruznaya Suzanne Young Murray Fellow Princeton University Musicology The Virtues and Vitriol of Philippe de Vitry Malika Zeghal Rita E. Hauser Fellow Harvard University Religion Sacred Politics: The State and Islam in the Contemporary Middle East Mei Zhen Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow University of Toronto (Canada) Biology Decoding the Motor System
Tanya Smith Harvard University Biology Tracking the Evolution of Human Life History with Rhythmic Tooth Growth Miguel Syjuco Independent Writer (Philippines) Fiction I Was the President’s Mistress!!
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