Radcliffe Quarterly—Summer 2008
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Rebel, Builder, Boundary Crosser: Dean Barbara J. Grosz Pat Harrison Before she became the first tenured woman in Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Barbara Grosz was building new research groups and broadening the scope of their research. Even earlier, she and her twin brother were breaking out of their backyard in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Partners in Research: Martin Summers RI ’08 and Wangui Muigai ’09 Cara Feinberg Harvard undergraduate Wangui Muigai ’09 and Radcliffe fellow Martin Summers RI ’08 describe their collaboration—conducting research on how race has shaped mental health doctrines and practices. What Field Are We Working In Now? Susan Saccoccia One of Radcliffe’s research clusters models and visualizes the structure of live music, while the other cluster examines how the Ethiopian culture—including music—has survived and changed among Ethiopians in the United States. Both groups are venturing beyond established academic boundaries and wondering in what fields their work belongs. Meet the Author: Elizabeth Alexander RI ’08 Joan Wickersham “Being a poet is at the heart of things,” says Elizabeth Alexander, a professor of African American studies at Yale University who is also an essayist, playwright, and scholar. The daughter of a Radcliffe College alumna, Alexander says her work has been shaped by her family’s history and voices. "The End"
Elizabeth Alexander RI '08 Departments From the Dean
Announcements Dean Grosz Elected to National Academy of Engineering Novelist Junot Díaz RI ’04 Wins a Pulitzer Biologist Susan Lindquist RI ’08 Wins the Otto Warburg Medal Policy Studies Initiative to Address Worldwide Issues Richardson Named to Lead University of St Andrews Around the Institute News from the Schlesinger Library Lecture Presentations It's a Long Way from Slime to Mozart Exploring the Tangled Histories of Women and Religion New Books This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz RI ’06 The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir by Honor Moore ’67 The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky BI ’97, RI ’07 The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall ’68 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks RI ’06 Quick Study Alumnae/i News Names & Faces NEWSmakers |
RADCLIFFE QUARTERLY
Editor
Pat Harrison
Associate Editor
Ivelisse Estrada
Book Reviewer
Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07
Editors Emeritae
Maryel Finney Locke ’48
Aida Kabatznick Press ’48
Diane Sherlock ’78
Design
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Director of Communications
Jenny Corke
Executive Dean
Louise Richardson
Dean
Barbara J. Grosz
Summer 2008
Volume 93/No. 2
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