2002–2003 Radcliffe Institute Fellows

Catherine Allgor

University of California at Riverside
US History
The Last of the Founders: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation

Omer Bartov

Brown University
European History
The Microhistory of Genocide: 200 Years of Interethnic Relations and the Origins of the Holocaust in Buczacz, Ukraine

Nancy Bauer

Tufts University
Philosophy
How to Do Things with Pornography

Katherine M. Benson

Emory University
Physics
Cosmology of Extradimensional Defect Universes

Raphael Bousso

University of California at Berkeley
Physics
String Theory, Cosmology, and the Holographic Principle

Liz Canner

Astrea Media
Filmmaking/Videomaking
The Other Side

Kathryn Chan

Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Transient States

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Brown University
Cultural Studies
Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics

Jean Comaroff

University of Chicago
Anthropology
Policing the Postcolony: Crime, Cultural Justice, and the Problem of Order in South Africa

John L. Comaroff

University of Chicago
Anthropology
Policing the Postcolony: Crime, Cultural Justice, and the Problem of Order in South Africa

Nancy Crowe

Dartmouth College
Political Science
Diversification of the Federal Courts: The Effects of Sex and Race on Judicial Behavior

Fiona Doetsch

Harvard University
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stem Cells and Their Niche in the Adult Mammalian Brain

Lynn Festa

Harvard University
English and French Literature
The Great World Without: The Sentimental Fictions of Empire in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Éanna E. Flanagan

Cornell University
Physics
The Gravitational Wave Signatures of Black Holes

Mala Htun

New School University
Political Science
Equal Representation in Latin America: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Democratic Politics

Jeanne Jordan

Independent Filmmaker
Filmmaking
The Heywood Boys

John T. Jost

Stanford University
Social Psychology
A Theory of System Justification

Ha-yun Jung

Independent Writer
Fiction
White Horse

Honour Kane

Independent Writer
Playwriting
7dayz

Stephen Kantrowitz

University of Wisconsin at Madison
US History
Origins of the Deep North: The Radical Reconstruction of Massachusetts, 1854-1889

Linda K. Kerber

University of Iowa
US History
Through Women's Eyes: An Alternative American History

Kevin Kopelson

University of Iowa
English Literature
Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk

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Independent Writer
Fiction
The Bodies Between Us

Meira Levinson

Boston Public Schools
Political Theory
Civic and Multicultural Education in Minority Settings

Wai-Yee Li

Harvard University
Chinese Literature
The End of the Ming Dynasty: Pleasures, Passions, and National Trauma in Late Imperial China

Tamara Loos

Cornell University
Asian History
Subject Siam: Gender, Justice, and Colonial Modernity

Beverly McIver

Arizona State University
Visual Arts
Inventing Ourselves

Toril Moi

Duke University
Literature
Ibsen's Modernity

Susan Pedersen

Harvard University
European History
Conscience and Politics: A Life of Eleanor Rathbone

Amanda Wensley Peet

University of Toronto
Physics
String Theory as Quantum Gravity

Lisa Randall

Harvard University
Physics
Cosmological Implications of Extra Dimensions

Susan M. Reverby

Wellesley College
History of Science
Testifying on Tuskegee: Telling the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Stories

Mark Robbins

Independent Artist
Visual Arts
Portraits of a City

Dianne E. Rocheleau

Clark University
Geography
The Invisible Ecologies of Machakos: Landscapes and Life Stories, 1900-2000

Mary Beth Saffo

Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Molecular Systematics of an Unusual Symbiotic Microbe

Lisa Saltzman

Bryn Mawr College
Art History
Mnemonic Devices: Structures of Identity, Strategies of Remembrance in Contemporary Art

Frederick Schauer

Harvard University
Law
Generalizations, Generality, and Justice

Laura Elise Schwendinger

University of Illinois at Chicago
Music Composition
Work for Orchestra

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Harvard University
Art History
Portraiture and the Development of African American Identity in the United States, 1770-1870

Susan Slyomovics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anthropology
Torture, Testimony, and Truth: The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco

Zadie Smith

Independent Writer
Fiction
The Morality of the Novel

Kathleen J. Stebe

Johns Hopkins University
Chemical Engineering
On Using Surfactants to Tailor Fluid Interfaces in Emerging Technologies

James A. Steintrager

University of California at Irvine
Romance Languages
The Autonomy of Pleasure: Sexual Semantics and Social Differentiation from Libertinage to Liberation

Caridad Svich

New Dramatists
Playwriting
The Spell of Eden

Marvalee H. Wake

University of California at Berkeley
Integrative Biology/Evolutionary Morphology
The Evolution of Live-Bearing Reproductive Modes in Amphibians

Ellen Widmer

Wesleyan University
Asian Literature
Gentlewomen (guixiu) and the Novel in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century China

Richard K. Wolf

Harvard University
Ethnomusicology
Semiotics and Process in the Ritual Drumming of South Asia

Dorothy Wong

University of Virginia
Art History
Adaptation and Transformation: Chinese Buddhist Steles of the Period of Northern and Southern Dynasties

Sijue Wu

University of Maryland at College Park
Mathematics
Mathematical Analysis of Vortex Dynamics

Maria T. Zuber

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geophysics and Planetary Science
Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets