Radcliffe Institute Announces 2021-2022 Fellows

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.” [4] 

Among the fellows are these Harvard affiliates:

Rebecca Bassett [5], a graduate student in the Graduate School of Education;

Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology [6] (public health);

Erica Chenoweth, Stanton professor of the First Amendment (Kennedy School);

Allison Daminger [7], 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 [8];

Pamela Nwakanma [9], 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, [10] 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 [11] and universities. Smith, the subject of the cover profile in the current Harvard Magazine, [12] 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 [13].