After a year when the pandemic kept its fellows from convening on campus, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) today unveils its 2021-2022 cohort of fellows: 52 scholars, artists, and others who will, according to Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, “reckon with this moment and its meaning.”
Among the fellows are these Harvard affiliates:
Rebecca Bassett, a graduate student in the Graduate School of Education;
Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology (public health);
Erica Chenoweth, Stanton professor of the First Amendment (Kennedy School);
Allison Daminger, a graduate student in sociology and social policy;
Elena Leah Glassman, assistant professor of computer science (engineering and applied sciences);
Oliver Hart, Geyser University Professor (economics);
Anthony Abraham Jack, assistant professor of education (Graduate School of Education);
Tiya Miles, professor of history;
Pamela Nwakanma, a graduate student in the government department; and
Sandra Susan Smith, Guggenheim professor of criminal justice (Kennedy School).
Pictured (left to right): Oliver Hart, Tiya Miles, Elena Glassman.
Oliver Hart photograph courtesy of FAS, Tiya Miles photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC, Elena Glassman photograph by Eliza Grinnell/SEAS.
Hart, who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in economics in 2016, will work on the effectiveness of divestment, boycotts, and other means of influencing corporate behavior, according to the RIAS announcement; other fellows’ projects have not yet been described. Jack is well known for his work on the experiences of first-generation students and those from under-resourced secondary schools at elite, selective colleges and universities. Smith, the subject of the cover profile in the current Harvard Magazine, is a sociologist whose current research involves the effect of jailing on individuals’ subsequent experiences with the justice system.
The announcement and list of fellows appear here.
