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New Fellows Announced
The 50 artists and scholars from Harvard and around the world will embark on a year of discovery to write books, create art, pioneer
research, and bring together theory and practice. Only 5 percent of applicants were accepted to the fellowship program, an admission
rate comparable to that of Harvard College. Incoming fellows include:
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The fellows hail
from across
the United
States and
around the
world.
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1 lucia allais,
a junior professor
of architecture
at Princeton
University. She
will undertake a
project called “Designs
of Destruction:
Architectural
Preservation in the
Age of Total War,”
about the process
of protecting
monuments of art
and architecture
from war and
modernization in
the 20th century.
2 The political
scientist claudine
gay, of Harvard’s
government department.
She will
be exploring connections
between
the distribution
of funds through
the Low-Income
Housing Tax
Credit program
and electoral
support. The title
of her project is
“Policy and Patronage:
The Distributive
Politics of
American Housing
Policy.”
3 The historian
linda gordon, of
New York University.
She will write
a book about 20thcentury
American
social movements,
including the
Settlement House
movement, the Ku
Klux Klan, several
New Deal–era
movements, the
civil rights movement,
Students
for a Democratic
Society (SDS), and
women’s liberation.
The title of
her project is “Social
Movements in
the 20th-Century
United States:
Modeling Historical
Analysis.”
4 The director
and playwright
sean graney,
founder of the
Hypocrites Theater
Company in
Chicago. He will
work on adapting
the 32 surviving
Greek tragedies
into an epic theater
event, All Our
Tragic, that brings
together modern
verse, humor, and
universal themes
in contemporary
times. While at
Radcliffe, Graney
will work closely
with colleagues
at the American
Repertory Theater,
where he is currently
directing Pirates
of Penzance.
5 jennifer e.
hoffman, an
associate professor
of physics at
Harvard who
last year won the
prestigious Roslyn
Abramson Award,
given annually to
recognize assistant
or associate
professors for
accessibility,
dedication, and
excellence in
undergraduate
teaching. During
her fellowship
year, she will
pursue her own
research priorities
with a project
titled “Enabling
Nanoscale Imaging
of Complex Oxides
through Novel
Film Growth
Techniques.”
6 michael
kremer, the
Gates Professor
of Developing
Societies in
the Department
of Economics at
Harvard. He will
bring together
Harvard faculty
members and
other experts to
focus on water,
health, and human
behavior. His
project is designed
to apply ideas
from the fields
of household
and behavioral
economics to
the prevention
of water-related
diseases in Africa
and South Asia.
7 julie orringer,
the author of the
novel The Invisible
Bridge and
the short-story
collection How
to Breathe Underwater.
She comes
to the Radcliffe
Institute to write
her next book.
Orringer’s subject
is the impact of the
American journalist
turned rescue
worker Varian Fry,
who saved thousands
of people—
especially artists
and writers—during
World War II.
8 tadashi
tokieda, the
director of studies
in mathematics
at Trinity Hall,
University of
Cambridge (UK).
He has collected
and created
dozens of toys
that are useful for
entertainment, for
research, and for
“communicating
surprises of
mathematics
and science.”
For his project
“Toys in Applied
Mathematics,”
Tokieda will
devise new toys,
improve old ones,
and develop
multimedia
illustrations of
how they work.
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Harvard faculty
fellows are
from the College,
the Kennedy
School,
the Law School,
and the Medical
School.
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