Drawn from several of Harvard’s schools, Radcliffe faculty leaders are experts in a broad array of fields and have interests that cross disciplinary boundaries. They work together and with faculty throughout Harvard to design and implement Radcliffe’s Academic Ventures.
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Joanna Aizenberg Director of the science program, Academic Ventures, and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a director of the Kavli Institute for Bionanoscience, a founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute |
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Ann Blair Senior advisor to the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and Harvard College Professor and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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Nancy F. Cott Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Senior advisor to the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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Leah Price Director of the humanities program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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Joan Ruderman Senior advisor to the science program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and Marion V. Nelson Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School |
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Robert J. Sampson Director of the social sciences program, Academic Ventures at the Radcliffe Institute and Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |







