Chimamanda Adichie
Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow and Radcliffe-African Studies Fellow
Independent Writer (Nigeria)
Fiction
A New Novel

John Aylward
Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music
Clark University
Music Composition
New England Poets: A Work for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble

Stefi Baum
Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow
Rochester Institute of Technology
Astronomy
Constraints on Heating and Cooling in the Intracluster Medium: Implications for Galaxy Formation

Reginald Dwayne Betts
University of Maryland
Poetry
Near Burn and Burden

David Bezmozgis
Lisa Goldberg Fellow
Independent Writer (Canada)
Fiction
The Betrayers

Laurel Bossen
The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow
McGill University
Anthropology
Female Labor and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950

Michael P. Brenner
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Science and Cooking, and Other Applied Mathematical Adventures

Melissa J. Brown
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
Minnesota Population Center
Anthropology
Female Labor and Footbinding in Rural China, 1900–1950

Alessandra Buonanno
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
University of Maryland
Physics
Modeling Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes

Cristina Maria Cervone
Bunting Fellow
Independent Scholar (United States)
Literature
Vernacular Poetics of Metaphor: Middle English and the Corporate Subject

Whitney Chadwick
San Francisco State University
Art History
In the Company of Women: Female Sexuality and Empowerment in the Surrealist World

Tom Conley
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
Engineering, Poetry, Mapping: Baroque Literature and Cartography in Early Modern France

Paul G. Falkowski
Grass Fellow
Rutgers University
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
From Star Dust to Life

Susanne Freidberg
Burkhardt Fellow
Dartmouth College
Geography
Diet for a Warm Planet: Debating the Future Map of Food

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Maury Green Fellow
Emory University
Cultural Studies
Habitable Worlds: Eugenic Spaces and Democratic Spaces

Amy Goldstein
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Washington Post
Journalism
Slipping Downhill: How Changes in the US Economy Are Transforming Lives and Reshaping our National Identity

Carla Gomes
Cornell University
Computer Science
Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society

Annette Gordon-Reed
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Law
“The Most Blessed of Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Maria Gough
Suzanne Young Murray Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Radical Tourists in Soviet Photographic Utopia

Cristina Grasseni
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Università degli studi di Bergamo (Italy)
Anthropology
Skilled Visions: Critical Ecologies of Belonging

Ralph Hanna
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
English Literature
Yorkshire Writers: Provincial Literary Communities in Late Medieval England

Karen Henson
Bunting Fellow
Columbia University
Musicology
Acoustic Orpheus: Opera and Early Sound Recording, 1877 to 1906

Uzodinma Iweala
Independent Writer
Fiction
Speak No Evil

Ray Jayawardhana
William Bentinck-Smith Fellow
University of Toronto (Canada)
Astronomy
Extreme Worlds: Close-In and Far-Out Extrasolar Planets

Jin Jiang
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
East China Normal University (China)
Modern Chinese History
The City and the Revolution: Shanghai under the Communists

Tayari Jones
Rutgers University
Fiction
Dear History

Gal A. Kaminka
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Bar Ilan University (Israel)
Computer Science
Curing Robot Autism

Pei-Chia Lan
Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Fellow
National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
Sociology
Parenting in the Context of Globalization

Rebekah Lee
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom)
History
Managing Uncertainty: Death and Memory in Modern South Africa

Judith Grant Long
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Urban and Regional Planning
Olympic Urbanism: From Rome to Rio

Stephen Mann
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow and Wyss Institute Fellow
University of Bristol (United Kingdom)
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Systems of Creation: From Protocell Autonomy to Synthetic Life

Mortaza Mardiha
Independent Writer (Iran)
Philosophy
The Effect of Modern Scientific Methodology on Modern Political Thought

Diane McWhorter
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Scholar (United States)
Journalism
Moon of Alabama: From Nazi Germany to Tranquility Base, via the Segregated American South

Eric Nelson
Burkhardt Fellow
Harvard University
Government
Thinking the Revolution: American Political Thought, 1763–1789

Teri W. Odom
Hrdy Fellow
Northwestern University
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Low-Cost Diagnostic Tools for Resource-Poor Countries

Kara Oehler
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Media And Place (MAP) Productions/metaLAB (at) Harvard
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
lines+points

Matías Piñeiro
David and Roberta Logie Fellow and Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Universidad del Cine (Argentina)
Film, Video, Sound, and New Media
Sarmiento, Translator

John Plotz
Brandeis University
Literature
Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption

Anne Pringle
Radcliffe Alumnae Fellow
Harvard University
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Understanding Life and Death in a Petersham Cemetery: The Demography of Lichens

Nasser Rabbat
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Architecture
A History of Islamic Architecture

Tova Reich
Independent Writer (United States)
Fiction
One Hundred Philistine Foreskins, A Novel

Re’em Sari
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Astronomy
Theoretical Astrophysics: From Planets to Giant Explosions

Tamar Schapiro
Stanford University
Philosophy
The Nature of Inclination and its Role in Action

Benny Shilo
Radcliffe Institute Fellow
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Genetics
The Wonders of Embryonic Development: Conveying the Concepts through Visual Sensations from the Macro World

Pamela Silver
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Harvard University
Bioengineering
Integrating Biology for a Sustainable World

Daniel Lord Smail
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
History
Goods and Debts in Medieval Mediterranean Europe

David Stern
Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Literature
A History of the Jewish Book from Antiquity to the Present Day: The Biographies of 120 Books

Victor Valle
California State Polytechnic University
Nonfiction Writing
The Aesthetics of Fire: On the Art of Chile Eating

Emma Wasserman
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Rutgers University
Religion
Apocalypticism and Hierarchy in the Letters of Paul

Margaret Weir
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Political Science
Building a New War on Poverty

Elizabeth A. Wilson
Helen Putnam Fellow
Emory University
Women’s and Gender Studies
Gut Feminism

Graduate Fellows

Martin Andersen
Harvard University
Health Policy
Essays in Health Economics

Jesse Rainbow
Harvard University
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
Textual Loss and Recovery in the Hebrew Bible

Sarah Zeiser
Harvard University
Celtic Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies
Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-11th-Century Wales