2005–2006 Radcliffe Institute Fellows

Melanie Becker
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
Texas A&M University
Physics
Flux Vacua of M-theory, Cosmology, and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles

Katrin Becker

Texas A&M University
Physics
Flux Backgrounds in String Theory and the Standard Model of Elementary Particles

Suzanne Preston Blier
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
Art History
Antiquities at Ife: Violence, Disease, Power, and Art in Ancient Africa

Elizabeth Brainerd
Hrdy Fellow
Williams College
History
Red Mother, Red Worker: The Changing Lives of Russian Women over the Twentieth Century

Lee Breuer

Mabou Mines Theatre Company
Playwriting
La Divina Caricatura

Geraldine Brooks
Vera M. Schuyler Fellow
Independent Writer
Fiction
People of the Book

Vincent Brown
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
Harvard University
History
Specter in the Canes: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

Ann Carlson

Independent Artist
Dance
CAke

Pierrette Cassou-Noguès

Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux I (France)
Mathematics
Newton Trees and Algebraic Curves

Abigail Child
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Filmmaking
The Suburban Trilogy: Part 3 "Surf + Turf"

Rey Chow

Brown University
Cultural Studies
Sentimental Fabulations: Magical/Critical Thinking, Contemporary Chinese Films

Andrew Wender Cohen
American Fellow
Syracuse University
History
Smuggling and Empire: The United States, 1870–1917

Rina Dechter
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
University of California at Irvine
Computer Science
Strategies for High Performance, Graph-Based Reasoning

Sharon Dolovich

UCLA School of Law
Law
The Eighth Amendment, Judicial Deference, and Constitutional Interpretation

Margarita Estévez-Abe
The Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
Political Science
Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: Explaining Occupational Segregation by Gender in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Alice Flaherty
Helen Putnam Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Medicine
All in Your Head: Brain Mechanisms of Denial and Disease

Mary-Louise Gill

Brown University
Classics
Plato´s Missing Dialogue

Claudia Goldin
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Harvard University
Economics
Transitions: Career and Family in the Life Cycles of College Men and Women

Rachel S. Goldman
Augustus Anson Whitney Fellow
University of Michigan
Materials Science
Directed Matrix Seeding of Semiconductor Nanostructure Arrays

Eva Haverkamp
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Rice University
History
Christians and Jews at the Time of the First Crusade: Contours of Interactions

Tony Horwitz

Independent Writer
Nonfiction
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World from Viking Vinland to Pilgrim Plymouth

Tera W. Hunter
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
History
"The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights": Slave and Free Black Marriages in the Nineteenth Century

Grazyna Jasienska

Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum (Poland)
Anthropology
The Fragile Wisdom of the Female Body: An Evolutionary View of Trade-Offs in Health and Disease

Nadira Dharshani Karunaweera
Ford Foundation International Fellow
University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Biology
Study of Genetic Diversity of Plasmodium Vivax Malaria Parasites in Sri Lanka

Lawrence F. Katz

Harvard University
Economics
Transitions: Career and Family in the Life Cycles of College Men and Women

Stacy S. Klein
Burkhardt Fellow
Rutgers University
English Literature
The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Vyvyane Loh

Independent Writer
Fiction
Novel-in-Progress

Margaret S. McMillan
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Tufts University
Economics
Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes

Salem Mekuria

Wellesley College
Filmmaking
Ende Senbalaet (Grass in the Wind)

J. Russell Muirhead

Harvard University
Political Science
Left and Right: A Defense of Party Spirit

Anna Nagurney

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Mathematics
Dynamic Networks with Applications: The Unified Theory of Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational Inequalities

Nancy J. Nersessian
Benjamin White Whitney Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology
Cognitive Science
Human Creativity in Science: An Integrated Look

Su Fang Ng
Bunting Fellow
University of Oklahoma
Literature
Translating Empire: Classicism and Colonialism between East and West

Claudia Olivetti

Boston University
Economics
Women´s Employment and Wages

Kathy Peiss
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of Pennsylvania
History
The Librarian´s Secrets: Books, Intelligence, and Cultural Reconstruction in the World War II Era

Naomi Pierce

Harvard University
Biology
Life History Evolution of Blue Butterflies

Rebecca Jo Plant
Bunting Fellow
University of California at San Diego
Women’s and Gender Studies
The Repeal of Mother Love: Momism and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Philip Wylie´s America

Geoffrey K. Pullum
Constance E. Smith Fellow
University of California at Santa Cruz
Linguistics
Model-Theoretic Syntax

Julie Reuben

Harvard Graduate School of Education
History and Education
Campus Revolts: Politics and the American University in the 1960s

James Rogers
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow
Earlham College
Computer Science
Model-Theoretic Syntax

Barbara C. Scholz
Frieda L. Miller Fellow
University of California at Santa Cruz
Philosophy
Model-Theoretic Syntax

Betty Shamieh

Marymount Manhattan College
Playwriting
Table of Honor

Diane Souvaine

Tufts University
Computer Science
Impact of Computational Geometry on Depth-Based Statistics

Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

Fordham University
Literature
The Mock Biblical: A Study in English Satire 1660–1830

Susan Rubin Suleiman
Marian Cabot Putnam Fellow
Harvard University
Holocaust Studies
Creativity and Childhood Trauma: Innovative Writing, Film, and Visual Art by Child Survivors of the Holocaust

Sarah Sze
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Columbia University
Visual Arts
The Art of Losing

Susan Terrio
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Georgetown University
Anthropology
Judging Mohammed at the Paris Palace of Justice: Juvenile Delinquency, (Im)migration, and Exclusion

Eve M. Troutt Powell
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Georgia
History
What Slaves Teach Us: Lessons on Race and Servitude from the Life of Saint Josephine Bakhita

Dmitri Tymoczko

Princeton University
Music Composition
A New Tonality

Mary C. Waters

Harvard University
Sociology
The Transition to Adulthood

Luke  Whitesell
Grass Fellow
University of Arizona and Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biology
An Essential Role for Heat Shock Protein Function in Cancer Evolution