2006–2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellows

Professor in Residence

Carolyn Abbate
Radcliffe Alumnae Professor
Harvard University
Musicology
Overlooking the Ephemeral

Fellows

Abeer Alwan
Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow
University of California at Los Angeles
Electrical Engineering
Speech Perception in Noise: Models and Applications

Shimon Attie
Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
A Tale of Nobel Dreams

C. Edwin Baker

University of Pennsylvania
Law
The Possibility of and Foundations of Legitimate Law

Elizabeth Bradley
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of Colorado
Computer Science
Computers, Chaos, and Choreography

Julie Buckler
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Harvard University
Cultural Studies
Russian Imperial Masterworks and Their Post-Histories

Giovanni Capoccia
Rita E. Hauser Fellow
Oxford University (UK)
Political Science
Militant Democrats: Political Repression in Western Europe

Bruce Carruthers
Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow
Northwestern University
Sociology
Credit and Credibility: The Evolution of Economic Trust

Pierrette Cassou-Noguès

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

Ganmaa Davaasambuu

Harvard School of Public Health
Medical Sciences
Milk, Dairy Intake, and Risk of Endometrial Cancer: A Twenty-Two-Year Follow-Up

John Demos

Yale University
History
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

John B. Diamond

Harvard University
Sociology
At the Crossroads of Success and Struggle

Frank Dobbin

Harvard University
Sociology
Equal Opportunity in Practice: What Works?

Brigid Doherty
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Princeton University
Art History
Homesickness for Things

Marwa Elshakry
Joy Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
History
Darwinian Conversions: Science and Religion in the Arab Eastern Mediterranean, 1850–1950

Wendy Espeland

Northwestern University
Sociology
Commensurate Worlds: How We Do Things with Numbers

Maria Evangelatou

Independent Scholar
Art History
Weaving Christ’s Body: Clothing, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium

Cassandra L. Fraser

University of Virginia
Chemistry
Designing Matter

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Frieda L. Miller Fellowship
Independent Scholar
Fiction
Disenchantment of the World: A Novel

Allegra Goodman

Independent Writer
Fiction
The Cookbook Collector: A Work in Progress

Alma Guillermoprieto
Rita E. and Gustav M. Hauser Fund Fellow
Independent Writer
Journalism
Many Mexicos, a Lot of Songs: How Culture Grows

Major Jackson

University of Vermont
Poetry
Urban Renewal

Nozima Kamalova
Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan
Human Rights Law
International Human Rights Law in Uzbekistan

Jane Kamensky
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow
Brandeis University
History
A Tale of Seven Cities: The Life and Times of Gilbert Stuart

Ranjana Khanna

Duke University
Literature and Women’s Studies
Asylum: The Concept and the Practice

Emilio Kourí
Burkhardt Fellow
University of Chicago
History
The “Indian Community” in Mexican Social Thought

Michèle Lamont
Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor
Harvard University
Sociology
Cream Rising: Finding Excellence in the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Suzanne Lebsock
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Rutgers University
History
The Summer of ’44: Farming for Freedom

Megan Marshall
American Fellow
Independent Writer
Nonfiction
Ebe: The Untold Story of Hawthorne’s Forgotten Sister

William S. McFeely
Constance E. Smith Fellow
University of Georgia (Emeritus)
History
Weddings and Funerals

Anita  Mehta

SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (India)
Physics
The World in a Grain of Sand

Peggy J. Miller
Helen Putnam Fellow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Psychology
Cultivating Children’s Self-Esteem: Discourse and Practices of Self-Enhancement

David P. Mindell

University of Michigan
Life Sciences
The Microevolution-Macroevolution Continuum Book Project

Meenakshi Narain
Jeanne Rosselet Fellow
Boston University
Physics
Development of Techniques to Identify the Signatures of Little Higgs Models at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector

Megan Núñez
Helen Putnam Fellow
Mount Holyoke College
Chemical Biology
Needle in a Haystack: Removing Base Lesions from DNA

Tayhas Palmore
Grass Fellow
Brown University
Engineering and Medical Science
At the Bioelectronic Interface: Creating Smart, Adaptable, Microelectronic Circuitry

Leah Price
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
The Stenographic Imagination: Literature and the Office in Britain, 1837–1937

Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Vera N. Schuyler Institute Fellow
University of California at Berkeley
Anthropology
The Ends of the Body: Global (in) Justice and the Traffic in Human Organs

Anna Schuleit
David and Roberta Logie Fellow
Independent Artist
Visual Arts
INTERTIDAL

Stuart Shieber
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
Harvard University
Computer Science
A Unified View of String and Tree Relations

Marjorie J. Spruill
Hrdy Fellow
University of South Carolina
History
Women’s Rights and Family Values: Gender and America’s Right Turn

Christine Stansell
Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow
Princeton University
History
A Political History of American Feminism, 1792–2002

Antónia Szabari
Bunting Fellow
University of Southern California
Literature
Less Rightly Said: Scandalous Words in the French Reformation

Maria  Tatar
Marion Cabot Putnam Fellow
Harvard University
Literature
Reading for Life: Children’s Stories and Their Transformative Power

Francesca Trivellato
Bunting Fellow
Yale University
History
Language, Images, and Practices of Cosmopolitanism in European Commercial Society, 1500–1800

Katherine Vaz

Harvard University
Fiction
Below the Salt

Manuela M. Veloso
Sargent-Faull Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science
Integrated Intelligence: Robots, Teams of Robots, and Beyond

Marie-France Vigneras

Université de Paris 7, Denis Diderot (France)
Mathematics
The p-adic and mod p Local Langlands Correspondence

Clea T. Waite
Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf," Babelsberg (Germany)
Film/Video Making
Moonwalk

Amy Waldman

Atlantic Monthly
Journalism
British Islam

Anthony Zee
Augustus Anson Whitney Scholar
University of California at Santa Barbara
Physics
Gravity, Neutrino, and Writing