The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is led by Dean Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, who serves on the President's Council of Deans.

Barbara Grosz Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Helen Ouellette Administrative dean

Judith Vichniac Associate dean of the fellowship program

Rebecca Wassarman Director of academic engagement programs

Nancy 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

Marilyn Dunn Executive director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and librarian of the Radcliffe Institute