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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

annual report 

2005–2006

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is 

a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work 

across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative 

arts. Within this broad purpose, the Radcliffe Institute sustains 

a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

annual report 2005–2006 

annual report 2005–2006 

dean 

Drew Gilpin Faust 

executive dean 

Louise Richardson 

associate dean for advancement 

and planning 

Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 

dean of science 

Barbara J. Grosz 

carl and lily pforzheimer 

foundation director 

of the schlesinger library 

Nancy F. Cott 

director of the radcliffe institute 

fellowship program 

Judith Vichniac 

senior advisor in the humanities 

Homi K. Bhabha 

senior advisor in international 

and policy studies 

Jennifer Leaning 

senior advisor in the social sciences 

Theda Skocpol 

director of communications 

Whitney T. Espich 

2 From the Executive Dean 

8 Institute Fellows 2005–2006 

12 Calendar of Academic Events 

32 Advancement Highlights 

33 Financial Summary 

34 Report of Giving 

50 Grants and Acquisitions of the 

Schlesinger Library 

Institute Calendar 

publications manager 

Pat Harrison 

writer/editor 

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From the Executive Dean 

A Memorable Year 

This February, I had the humbling experience of chairing the selection 

process for the 2006–2007 class of Radcliffe Institute fellows. With an 

acceptance rate of only 5 percent for the 2005–2006 class, the Radcliffe Institute 

Fellowship Program has rapidly become one of the most competitive 

programs of its kind in the world, drawing 19 percent of its applicants from 

outside the United States and 34 percent from non-American citizens. 

Thanks to the generosity of our alumnae/i and the hard work of our staff, the 

Radcliffe Institute is on a firm financial footing, enabling us to support the 

work of our fellows and the growth of the Schlesinger Library while bringing 

us closer to our goal of fully endowing our activities. 

This has been an extraordinarily exciting year at Radcliffe but an 

unusual one. In January, five years after coming to Cambridge as dean of the 

Radcliffe Institute, Drew Gilpin Faust took a one-semester sabbatical to work 

on her book on the role of death in the Civil War. It is a testament to the success 

of her leadership in firmly establishing both the programs of the Institute 

and the infrastructure to support them that we have not missed a beat in 

her absence. 

With an acceptance rate of only five percent for the 2005–2006 class, the Radcliffe Institute 

Fellowship Program has rapidly become one of the most competitive programs of its kind in 

the world. 

fellowship program 

This year, Radcliffe welcomed fifty-one fellows to Cambridge, representing a 

wide range of disciplines and the creative arts. We had two research clusters 

of fellows: one cluster, composed of three economists and an American historian, 

worked on a multiyear project examining the career trajectory of 

women and men graduates from elite universities; the other cluster, composed 

of a linguist, a philosopher, and a computer scientist, examined the 

question of syntax. Each of these groups was accepted as a cluster to the fellowship 

program, and a third formed while in residence. Three fellows— 

one working on African American marriage in the nineteenth century, one 

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on slavery in Jamaica, and a third on Sudanese slavery in Egypt—decided to 

form their own cluster on slavery while they were here. 

There were many public highlights to the fellowship year: research by 

biologist Naomi Pierce appeared in Science magazine in April; artist Sarah 

Sze installed a widely acclaimed work in New York City; writer Geraldine 

Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; and a fellow from last year, Caroline 

Elkins, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. 

The private highlight for me, and one of the most gratifying moments 

of the year, was reading the year-end evaluations of the program written by 

the fellows. Several clear themes emerged. Many fellows referred to the 

opening-day orientation, when Dean Faust said it was our hope that this 

would be the best year of their professional lives. Several fellows said it was 

exactly that. In the words of biological anthropologist Grazyna Jasienska, “It 

has been the best, most productive year in my professional career. . . . In 

addition, my Radcliffe fellowship gave me new energy and confidence to 

face my next professional years in Poland.” Several other fellows referred to 

the intellectual camaraderie they had missed in their home departments. 

Historian Andrew Cohen put it this way: “When I became a professor, the 

intellectual banter of graduate school largely ceased. . . . At Radcliffe, I 

enjoyed the ‘life of the mind’ that originally attracted me to academia.” All 

delighted in being in such a cross-disciplinary community. Geraldine Brooks 

wrote of going to a talk by mathematician Pierrette Cassou-Noguès on “Singularities 

in Algebraic Plane Curves” and fearing that it would be like listening 

to a lecture in Sanskrit. Instead, Brooks came away with “real insight 

into how a mathematician sees the world.” Several spoke about the longterm 

impact of the fellowship year on their work. Political scientist J. Russell 

Muirhead wrote: “I see my own discipline, which is practiced in the academy 

as a sub-discipline (political philosophy), from a very different vantage 

point. I see it not as part of a department or program, but as part of a much 

larger quest for human understanding. I describe it differently and write 

about it differently.” 

Two other themes emerged from the comments of the fellows. One 

was how much they enjoyed working with their undergraduate research 

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assistants. Radcliffe hired forty-one Harvard undergraduates to work as 

research partners with individual fellows. The undergraduates thereby gained 

insight into a field that interests them, and the fellows acquired research 

help. The final theme was unanimous acclaim for the dedication, commitment, 

and intellectual leadership provided by Judith Vichniac, the director of 

the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. 

The Schlesinger Library emerged from a three-year period of transition . . . with renewed 

energy and focus on its core mission of documenting American women of the past and the 

present for the future. 

schlesinger library 

The Schlesinger Library emerged from a three-year period of transition— 

which involved a complete renovation of the building, a reorganization of 

the staff, and a turnover in executive directors—with renewed energy and 

focus on its core mission of documenting American women of the past and 

the present for the future. The research community enthusiastically 

returned to the beautiful new reading room, and the number of in-person 

reference queries rose by 26 percent compared with the same period 

last year. 

The book department saw an increase of 97 percent in the number of 

titles catalogued, adding more than three thousand titles this year. The manuscript 

division acquired more than 754 linear feet of material in 235 collections, 

one hundred collections more than last year. These include some very 

exciting additions that add significantly to the library’s documentation of 

women’s activism in feminism, health, and politics. The papers acquired this 

year range from those of Patricia Ireland, former president of the National 

Organization for Women; to those of Kay Dickersin, epidemiologist and advocate 

for breast cancer survivors; to those of Kip Tiernan, activist for Boston’s 

homeless women. This year’s purchases also included three nineteenthcentury 

daguerreotypes and one tintype of mothers breastfeeding, a rare and 

new area of collecting for the library. 

Behind the scenes, real progress was made in addressing the backlog 

of materials to be processed. The manuscript unit processed twelve collec- 

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tions—amounting to almost 250 linear feet of materials—including the 

Susan Brownmiller papers and the Sheila Tobias collection. The Radcliffe 

College archivist also led a team of students who catalogued nearly ten thousand 

photographs, about half of which have been digitized. 

public programs 

Radcliffe Yard was brimming with visitors to our various public programs 

this year. We held three conferences, seventeen lectures and panel discussions, 

and eleven Exploratory and Advanced Seminars. These events included 

a vibrant science program led by Radcliffe’s incomparable dean of science, 

Barbara J. Grosz. Several of our programs, as befits the times, focused on the 

theme of war. Our fall gender conference, “In the War Zone: How Does Gender 

Matter” brought together an extraordinary range of academics from 

diverse disciplines, as well as members of the military and nongovernmental 

organizations, to focus on the impact of war on women. Over 650 people 

registered for the conference. We continued the theme of war in the Voices 

of Public Intellectuals lecture series, titled “War and the Displacement of 

People.” 

In keeping with the University’s keen interest in encouraging interdisciplinary research, 

Harvard faculty members can apply to Radcliffe for funds to convene a small gathering of 

faculty from Harvard and other universities to explore a question of particular import. 

Our Exploratory and Advanced Seminars have turned out to be one of 

our less public but more popular programs. In keeping with the University’s 

keen interest in encouraging interdisciplinary research, Harvard faculty 

members can apply to Radcliffe for funds to convene a small gathering of faculty 

from Harvard and other universities to explore a question of particular 

import. This year we supported eleven such seminars, bringing together, for 

example, faculty from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Graduate 

School of Education to examine the effects of Early Head Start and other 

child-care opportunities offered to low-income families. Other seminars 

focused on topics ranging from pragmatism to biodiversity to statistics. The 


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program has been so popular that we decided to open the competition this 

year to former fellows so that they may lead seminars during the summer 

months. We have received many more extraordinary applications than we can 

hope to support. 

administration 

The pace of programmatic innovation has been fully matched by the pace of 

physical change in Radcliffe Yard. In June, the newly renovated Radcliffe 

Gymnasium opened. The gym will now become the central intellectual meeting 

place at Radcliffe. While the old track and scarred wooden walls bear witness 

to the history of the space, ultramodern high-tech equipment and 

comfortable furniture have been added. The basement that once housed the 

Radcliffe swimming pool has been turned into a vault that provides additional 

storage for Schlesinger Library collections. The marble from the old swimming 

pool can be found in a plaque on the building’s exterior and in the 

terrazzo on the ground floor. 

This year, we also initiated the realization of our long-term objective of 

moving the fellows from their current home on Concord Avenue into Byerly 

Hall. The Harvard admissions and financial-aid offices will move this fall 

into space in Agassiz and Cronkhite, which are currently undergoing construction. 

We have engaged the architectural firm of Goody Clancy to renovate 

Byerly so that the class of fellows entering in 2008 will have their offices 

in the Yard. Everyone at Radcliffe looks forward with great eagerness to the 

day when the Yard truly becomes the intellectual as well as the physical heart 

of Radcliffe. 

This ambitious program of capital improvements is expensive and is 

possible only because of the generous support of our alumnae/i and friends, 

tight fiscal management, and careful planning. We received cash gifts for 

endowment of $8.3 million this year, only a slight decrease from our recordbreaking 

year last year. The endowment grew by 17 percent this year to 

$472.8 million. Owing to successful fundraising last year and strong 

performance by the Harvard Management Company, our endowment income 

increased by 14 percent and now represents 76 percent of our income. 

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Success at all these levels, from the programmatic to the administrative, 

is made possible by the dedication, energy, and skill of the women and 

men who work at Radcliffe. It was deeply gratifying—but in no sense surprising—to 

see the results of a recent University-wide survey of staff engagement. 

On many measures, Radcliffe staff members led the way in their 

commitment to their work and to Radcliffe. 

Seven years ago, we faced the task of establishing Radcliffe as a premier institute for 

advanced study and of transforming the financial and administrative infrastructure to 

support that aim. The goal has largely been realized, but challenges remain. 

In October, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will be seven 

years old. We have experienced a challenging and exhilarating period of 

transformation. Seven years ago, we faced the task of establishing Radcliffe as 

a premier institute for advanced study and of transforming the financial and 

administrative infrastructure to support that aim. The goal has largely been 

realized, but challenges remain. Today, we must continue to plan for the 

future; to retain the energy and openness that accompany newness; to question 

constantly how we do things and imagine ways of doing them better; to 

work toward fully endowing our activities; and to contemplate new activities 

that will support our core mission of advancing knowledge. These tasks are 

made immeasurably easier by the support of our alumnae/i and friends and 

the dedication of our staff. 

louise richardson 

Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

August 2006 


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“The best aspect, and least expected, of my fellowship year has been getting 

to know the other fellows. I have grown close to a group of scholars and 

artists here who I feel I will be connected to the rest of my life. In most cases, 

these are fellows whose work is not related to mine, though in a few cases 

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there are directly shared intellectual interests.” 

tera w. hunter 

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“This has been a wonderful year for me. It was an opportunity to meet 

a large group of men and especially women at different stages of their 

careers, many of whom are at the top of their professions, in diverse 

areas of the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Being in science and 

mostly in a male environment, I found this to be a unique experience.” 

rina dechter 

1 katrin becker 

Texas A&M University 

physics 

Flux Backgrounds in String Theory and the 

Standard Model of Elementary Particles 

2 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 

3 suzanne preston blier 

evelyn green davis fellow 

Harvard University 

art history 

Antiquities at Ife: Violence, Disease, Power, 

and Art in Ancient Africa 

4 elizabeth brainerd 

hrdy fellow 

Williams College 

economics 

Red Mother, Red Worker: The Changing Lives 

of Russian Women over the Twentieth Century 

5 lee breuer 

Mabou Mines Theatre Company 

playwriting 

La Divina Caricatura 

6 geraldine brooks 

vera m. schuyler fellow 

Independent Writer 

fiction 

People of the Book 

7 vincent brown 

lillian gollay knafel fellow 


history 

Specter in the Canes: Death and Power in the 

World of Atlantic Slavery 

8 ann carlson 

Independent Artist 

dance 

CAke 

9 pierrette cassou-noguès* 

Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, 

Université Bordeaux I (France) 

mathematics 

Newton Trees and Algebraic Curves 

10 abigail child 

david and roberta logie fellow 

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

filmmaking 

The Suburban Trilogy: Part 3 “Surf + Turf” 

11 rey chow 

Brown University 

cultural studies 

Sentimental Fabulations: Magical/Critical 

Thinking, Contemporary Chinese Films 

12 andrew wender cohen 

american fellow 

Syracuse University 

history 

Smuggling and Empire: The United States, 

1870–1917 

13 rina dechter 

emeline bigelow conland fellow 

University of California at Irvine 

computer science 

Strategies for High Performance, Graph-Based 

Reasoning 

14 sharon dolovich 

UCLA School of Law 

law 

The Eighth Amendment, Judicial Deference, 

and Constitutional Interpretation 

15 margarita estévez-abe 

the joy foundation fellow 


political science 

Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: 

Explaining Occupational Segregation by 

Gender in Advanced Capitalist Democracies 

16 alice flaherty 

helen putnam fellow 

Harvard Medical School 

medicine 

All in Your Head: Brain Mechanisms of Denial 

and Disease 

17 mary-louise gill 


classics 

Plato’s Missing Dialogue 

18 claudia goldin** 

katherine hampson bessell fellow 


economics 

Transitions: Career and Family in the Life 

Cycles of College Men and Women 

19 rachel s. goldman 

augustus anson whitney fellow 

University of Michigan 

materials science 

Directed Matrix Seeding of Semiconductor 

Nanostructure Arrays 


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20 eva haverkamp 

Walter Jackson Bate Fellow 

Rice University 

history 

Christians and Jews at the Time of the First 

Crusade: Contours of Interactions 

26 stacy s. klein 

burkhardt fellow 

Rutgers University 

english literature 

The Militancy of Gender and the Making of 

Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature 

33 su fang ng 

bunting fellow 

University of Oklahoma 

literature 

Translating Empire: Classicism and 

Colonialism between East and West 

21 tony horwitz 


nonfiction 

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering 

the New World from Viking Vinland to 

Pilgrim Plymouth 

22 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 

23 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 

24 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 

25 lawrence f. katz** 


economics 

Transitions: Career and Family in the Life 

Cycles of College Men and Women 

27 vyvyane loh 


fiction 

Novel-in-Progress 

28 margaret s. mcmillan 

william and flora hewlett foundation 

fellow 

Tufts University 

economics 

Globalization and Labor Market Outcomes 

29 salem mekuria 

Wellesley College 

filmmaking 

Ende Senbalaet (Grass in the Wind) 

30 j. russell muirhead 


political science 

Left and Right: A Defense of Party Spirit 

31 anna nagurney 

University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

mathematics 

Dynamic Networks with Applications: 

The Unified Theory of Projected Dynamical 

Systems and Evolutionary Variational 

Inequalities 

32 nancy j. nersessian 

benjamin white whitney fellow 

Georgia Institute of Technology 

cognitive science 

Human Creativity in Science: 

An Integrated Look 

34 claudia olivetti** 

Boston University 

economics 

Women’s Employment and Wages 

35 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 

36 naomi pierce 


biology 

Life History Evolution of Blue Butterflies 

37 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 

38 geoffrey k. pullum*** 

constance e. smith fellow 

University of California at Santa Cruz 

linguistics 

Model-Theoretic Syntax 

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“I began the year at a fairly preliminary stage of my project and ended it with a very clear understanding of 

the book I’m writing. In part, this was a result of having the time to complete a great deal of research, both 

at Harvard (especially the Harvard University Archives) and in short research trips to Stanford and the 

Library of Congress. But more importantly, the fellowship year—and my interaction with fellows and other 

scholars—gave me the opportunity to think and to see the scope and significance of this work in a new way.” 

kathy peiss 

39 julie reuben** 

Harvard Graduate School of Education 

history and education 

Campus Revolts: Politics and the American 

University in the 1960s 

46 sarah sze 

mildred londa weisman fellow 

Columbia University 

visual arts 

The Art of Losing 

*Fall term only 

**Denotes economics cluster 

***Denotes linguistics cluster 

40 james rogers*** 

jeanne rosselet fellow 

Earlham College 



41 barbara c. scholz*** 

frieda l. miller fellow 

University of California at Santa Cruz 

philosophy 


42 betty shamieh 

Marymount Manhattan College 

playwriting 

Table of Honor 

43 diane souvaine 

Tufts University 


Impact of Computational Geometry on 

Depth-Based Statistics 

44 michael f. suarez, sj 

Fordham University 

literature 

The Mock Biblical: A Study in English Satire 

1660–1830 

45 susan rubin suleiman 

marian cabot putnam fellow 


holocaust studies 

Creativity and Childhood Trauma: Innovative 

Writing, Film, and Visual Art by Child 

Survivors of the Holocaust 

47 susan terrio 

rita e. hauser fellow 

Georgetown University 

anthropology 

Judging Mohammed at the Paris Palace of 

Justice: Juvenile Delinquency, (Im)migration, 

and Exclusion 

48 eve m. troutt powell 

sargent-faull fellow 

The University of Georgia 

history 

What Slaves Teach Us: Lessons on Race and 

Servitude from the Life of Saint Josephine 

Bakhita 

49 dmitri tymoczko 

Princeton University 

music composition 

A New Tonality 

50 mary c. waters 


sociology 

The Transition to Adulthood 

51 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 


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September 2005 

8–13 

Fellows’ Arrival and Orientation 

Works-in-Progress 

“One might think an operations researcher on sabbatical would 

prefer to interact with others from the same discipline, or at the 

very least, with other scientists and engineers,” said Radcliffe fellow 

Anna Nagurney, a mathematician from the University of Massachusetts 

at Amherst. “But some of the most interesting questions after 

my seminar came from nonscientists, and some of the presentations 

that I found most profound and even haunting were by the 

nonscientists.” 

In this reflection, Nagurney describes an experience that occurs 

again and again at the Radcliffe Institute: intense learning across 

disciplines and the arts. One of the many venues for these 

exchanges is the weekly fellows’ presentations, which occur every 

Wednesday during the academic year. 

Held in the third-floor Colloquium Room on Concord Avenue, fellows’ 

presentations ranged this past year from a discussion of biblical 

satire in the eighteenth century to the legal rights of today’s 

prisoners. Each member of the group of ten creative artists, sixteen 

humanists, thirteen social scientists, and twelve natural scientists 

presented his or her work-in-progress to Radcliffe colleagues and 

the wider Harvard community. 

Judith Vichniac, director of the fellowship program, introduced fellows 

before their presentations, providing background and context 

for listeners. She described several highlights of the past year’s 

presentation calendar. Artist Ann Carlson gave an overview of her 

interdisciplinary work that included dancing (“We’re never not 

dancing,” Carlson claims) and discussed how things become commodities 

or consumer goods in American life. 

Three fellows presented work on different aspects of slavery. Tera 

W. Hunter, who held a Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellowship, presented 

research on black marriages among slaves, free blacks, and 

ex-slaves during the nineteenth century. Eve M. Troutt Powell, 

who held the Sargent-Faull Fellowship, discussed her work on Saint 

Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese woman kidnapped and sold as a 

slave in the nineteenth century. And Vincent Brown, the Lillian Gollay 

Knafel Fellow, talked about Jamaican slave society. 

Another high point in the fellows’ presentations was materials scientist 

Rachel S. Goldman’s discussion of her research on energysaving 

technologies. Goldman, who held the Augustus Anson 

Whitney Fellowship at Radcliffe, used a scanning tunneling microscope 

in the basement of Harvard’s Bauer Laboratory to conduct 

her research. 

Institute Celebrates Pulitzer Wins 

The Institute celebrated on April 19 when a current and a former 

Radcliffe fellow were honored with Pulitzer Prizes. Geraldine 

Brooks, who held the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at Radcliffe, won 

in fiction for her novel March (Viking, 2005); and Caroline Elkins RI 

’04, now the Hugh K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies 

in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, won in nonfiction 

for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya 

(Holt, 2005). While other Radcliffe and Bunting fellows have won 

Pulitzer Prizes, this was the first time that two 

fellows received the awards simultaneously. 

Homi Bhabha and Theda Skocpol Join Institute as Senior 

Advisors 

Homi K. Bhabha RI ’05 and Theda Skocpol AM ’72, PhD ’75, distinguished 

members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, joined 

the Radcliffe Institute as senior advisors this past year. Bhabha, the 

Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature 

and director of the Humanities Center, became the Institute’s 

senior advisor in the humanities on July 1, 2005. He was a Radcliffe 

Institute fellow in 2004–2005 and served as a faculty associate at 

the Institute for three years before becoming a senior advisor. 

Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is 

the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and 

director of the Center for American Political Studies. She was 

named the Institute’s senior advisor in the social sciences effective 

January 1, 2006. Both professors hold three-year appointments at 

Radcliffe. 

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Radcliffe Institute Fellows’ Presentation Series 

"Inheriting the City: The Second Generation in Young 

Adulthood" 

Mary C. Waters, Harvard University 

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Harvard Teach-In on Hurricane Katrina 

Sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative with 

support from the Harvard University Committee on 

Human Rights Studies and the Radcliffe Institute for 

Advanced Study 

Daniel Curran, Harvard Business School; Leslie Gerwin, 

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard 

University; David Henderson, Massachusetts General 

Hospital; Jennifer Leaning ’67, SMH ’70, Radcliffe Institute 

for Advanced Study, Harvard School of Public Health, 

Harvard Medical School; Michael Van Rooyen, Harvard 

Medical School 

homi k. bhabha 

theda skocpol 

rachel s. goldman 

tera w. hunter 


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October 2005 

3–March 31, 2006 

Exhibition 

A Call to American Women: Responses to War 

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of 

Women in America 

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Schlesinger Library Film Series 

A Hero for Daisy, directed by Mary Mazzio 

Followed by a discussion with Mary Mazzio, director and 

producer 

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“The Homecoming of American College Women” 

Claudia Goldin, Harvard University; Lawrence F. Katz, 


Dean’s Lectures Feature Media Critic, Law Professor, Musicologist, 

and Astronomer 

Every year since its founding, the Radcliffe Institute has hosted the 

Dean’s Lecture Series, which brings leading intellectuals to the 

Institute to present their work. These speakers have ranged from 

author Toni Morrison in 2000–2001 to philosopher Avishai Margalit 

in 2004–2005. This year the series featured four lectures. 

“When it’s scary, be wary,” media critic Kathleen Jamieson said 

several times during her Dean’s Lecture on October 25. If political 

ads contain strong mood music and evocative visuals, it’s likely, 

Jamieson said, that deception is embedded in the message. In a 

lecture titled “The Demise of Fact in Political Discussion,” she 

said Democrats believe the “facts” of their candidates, and Republicans 

believe the “facts” of theirs, while the press isn’t as helpful 

as it could be in sorting out the truth. 

Through Factcheck.org, a Web site maintained by the Annenberg 

Public Policy Center, Jamieson and her colleagues are trying to set 

up some basic rules to help the electorate analyze political ads. 

Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication 

and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg 

Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s 

Annenberg School for Communication. 

Patricia J. Williams JD ’75, the author of popular books as well as 

scholarly legal works and the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at 

Columbia Law School, delivered a Dean’s Lecture on April 6. Titled 

“A Meditation on Dislocation in an Increasingly Status-Driven and 

Profile-Ridden World,” Williams’s wide-ranging speech touched on 

the tyranny of biological and social categories, the challenge of 

building community, the re-emergence of eugenics, and her experience 

caring for her elderly parents in Boston. “It’s hard to pinpoint 

the particular bit of misery that made the year 2005 one that most 

everyone I know was glad to put behind us,” she said. “But the 

gods of dislocation seemed to have visited many of us, from the 

tsunami to the war to global warming and rising oceans.” 

Williams warned about how we’ll react to future disasters like 

Hurricane Katrina. “Everyone pointed to those levies from the time 

of Mark Twain onward,” she said. “And we are doing the same 

thing with mad cow [disease]; we are doing the same thing with 

bird flu. . . . Our future will depend on our ability to connect what 

has been disconnected, to locate what has been dislocated, to 

remember what has been dismembered.” 

Susan McClary PhD ’76, a professor of musicology at the University 

of California at Los Angeles, spoke in the Dean’s Lecture Series on 

April 20. In a lecture titled “The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in 

Seventeenth-Century French Opera,” McClary analyzed two operas, 

the French versions of Medea and Armide, which end with femmes 

fatales departing on chariots pulled by dragons. These tidy escapes 

can be understood, she said, by looking at the court of Louis XIV, 

which regulated opera productions. Oddly enough, aristocratic 

women of the seventeenth-century French court were powerful, with 

great influence over music, art, and literature. “The dragon cart 

didn’t sneak in while no one was paying attention,” McClary said; 

rather, it reflected the progressive French court. Unfortunately, a 

backlash had occurred by the turn of the seventeenth century that 

diminished the power of women intellectuals. 

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at 

Harvard, introduced McClary in a witty piece called “Susan McClary: 

The Opera.” 

The first Dean’s Lecture of the year, on October 17, was presented by 

astronomer Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto and was 

cosponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. See 

page 22 for information on Jayawardhana’s presentation. 

To watch McClary’s lecture, visit www.radcliffe.edu/events/ 

lectures/2006_mcclary.php. 

To watch Jayawardhana’s lecture, visit 

www.radcliffe.edu/events/video.php#lectures. 

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Dean's Lecture Series 

“New Worlds in the Making: Origins of Planets and Brown 

Dwarfs” 

Ray Jayawardhana, University of Toronto 

Cosponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for 

Astrophysics 

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“Transgressive Testaments: Mock-Biblical Satire in Eighteenth- 

Century England” 

Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Fordham University 

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Dean’s Lecture Series 

“The Demise of Fact in Political Discussion” 

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, 

Annenberg School for Communication, University of 

Pennsylvania 

26 

Radcliffe Institute Fellows' Presentation Series 

“The Fragile Wisdom of the Female Body: Trade-Offs in 

Reproductive Physiology” 

Grazyna Jasienska, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian 

University, Collegium Medicum (Poland) 

kathleen jamieson 

patricia j. williams 

susan mcclary 


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November 2005 

2 


“War Mothers: Patriotic Maternalism and American Culture, 

1928–1945” 

Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California at San Diego 

2 


What's Cooking, directed by Gurinder Chadha 

Followed by a discussion with Judith E. Smith, University 

of Massachusetts at Boston 

3–4 

Conference 

In the War Zone: How Does Gender Matter 

Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University; Leo Braudy, 

University of Southern California; Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck 

College, University of London; Geraldine Brooks RI ’06, 

independent writer; Robin Coupland, International 

Committee of the Red Cross; Drew Gilpin Faust, Radcliffe 

Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard University; Lorry 

Fenner, United States Air Force; Janet Halley, Harvard Law 

School; Gilbert Holleufer, International Committee of the 

Red Cross and Gymnasium of Vevey; Tony Horwitz RI ’06, 

independent writer; Michael Ignatieff, John F. Kennedy 

School of Government, Harvard University; Lynne Jones, 

International Medical Corps and Cambridge University; 

Alice Kaplan, Duke University; Jennifer Leaning, Radcliffe 

Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard School of Public 

Health, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and 

Women’s Hospital; Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary 

College, University of London; Elspeth Cameron Ritchie 

’80, United States Army and United States Army Surgeon 

General; Susan Rubin Suleiman RI ’06, Harvard 

University; Simon Wessely, King’s College London and 

King’s Centre for Military Health Research; James E. 

Young, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

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“Dynamic Networks with Applications: The Unified Theory of 

Projected Dynamical Systems and Evolutionary Variational 

Inequalities” 

Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts at Amherst 

Women, Gender, and Society in Wartime 

At a time when the Iraq war was a topic of heated debate, the 

Radcliffe Institute decided to focus on war in its fourth annual conference 

on women, gender, and society. Jennifer Leaning, the Institute’s 

senior advisor in international and policy studies and one of 

the conference organizers, reflected at the conference on the importance 

of studying war: “War is seen as a core human activity that 

defines civilizations, so that an explication of the war zone is essential 

to the understanding of the nature and trajectory of any society.” 

Twenty experts participated in the event, held on November 3 and 

4, and engaged in four panel discussions. The conference was supported 

by the Rita E. Hauser Fund. 

In her introduction to the conference, Dean Drew Gilpin Faust 

described the need to explore questions “about men’s and 

women’s changing roles, about the transformation and continuity 

in our gendered expectations, about the paradoxical way war reinforces 

gender categories and then undermines them, confronting 

men with their vulnerability and women with their strength.” 

Although more women serve in the United States military than ever 

before, the battlefield is still a man’s world: women make up only 

about 15 percent of the United States armed services and are 

barred from combat units. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie ’80, a colonel 

in the United States Army, participated in the panel titled “Home 

Front/Battle Front: The Gendered Geography of War,” where she 

said that women enlist partly to gain economic advantages and 

remain because they find “a very comfortable environment” in military 

life. “It’s a good place to be, and a lot of us stay,” said Ritchie. 

She acknowledged, however, that there are “isolated pockets” of 

abuse and mentioned the alleged rape of female cadets at the US 

Air Force Academy in 1993. 

who were forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese in World War 

II; the rape of Muslim women in Bosnia in the 1990s; and the mass 

rape of women and girls in Darfur today. 

Gilbert Holleufer, a former member of the International Committee 

of the Red Cross, said there’s often a chilling breakdown of the social 

order during wars, such as those in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

Civilians become targets of close combat, sniping, torture, 

and humiliation. In these circumstances, traditional gender roles 

break down. Men who expect to defend their country find themselves 

dishonored, Holleufer said. Unable to protect their families, the men 

sometimes participate in atrocities themselves, causing a cycle of 

shame and self-doubt. In the aftermath of such war, Holleufer said, 

women often find it easier to resume normal social life. 

Geraldine Brooks RI ’06, who reported for the Wall Street Journal 

during the 1991 Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein, participated 

in the panel “Home Front/Battle Front: The Gendered Geography 

of War.” She said her male colleagues were fascinated by the 

kinds of tanks and shells used in Kirkuk during an attack, while 

she was intent on finding out how the women were comforting 

their children. 

Brooks laid down a challenge for women seeking influence over 

war. “[W]omen may have won the right to be in the foxhole, but 

perhaps it’s one right we should approach with extreme caution,” 

she said. “If we want to test our courage and serve our country in 

the current climate, then I would argue that perhaps a woman’s 

place is at the barricades arguing for peace.” 

Streaming video and audio of the two-day conference are available 

on-line at the Harvard@Home Web site. 

Another participant in the same panel, Jacqueline Bhabha, the executive 

director of the Harvard University Committee on Human 

Rights Studies, discussed how women civilians have limited control 

over their lives during war and how men exploit that vulnerability 

with sexual violence. Bhabha cited the Korean “comfort women” 

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Panel Discussion 

“The Sky’s Not the Limit: Women in Astronomy” 

Virginia Trimble, University of California at Irvine, Las 

Cumbres Observatory, moderator; E. Margaret Burbidge, 

University of California at San Diego; Martha L. Hazen, 

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, retired; 

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA, retired; Sidney C. Wolff, 

National Optical Astronomy Observatory; C. Meg Urry, 

Yale University 


Astrophysics. 

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“The Librarian’s Secrets: Books, Intelligence, and Cultural 

Reconstruction in the World War II Era” 

Kathy Peiss, University of Pennsylvania 

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“A Defense of Party Spirit” 

J. Russell Muirhead, Harvard University 


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December 2005 

5 

Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Art and the Humanities 

“Why Dramatize” 

Lee Breuer RI ’06, Mabou Mines Theatre Company 

7 


“Make Your Symptoms Work for You” 

Alice Flaherty, Harvard Medical School 

7 


Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, directed by Connie Field 

Women in the Wings, directed by Julia Love 

Followed by a discussion with Cynthia Enloe, Clark 

University 

8 

Voices of Public Intellectuals Lecture Series 

“The Forgotten ‘Refugees’: Protecting People Uprooted in 

their Own Countries” 

Roberta Cohen, Brookings Institution 

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Schlesinger Library Book Sale 

Lectures Address War and Foreign Policy 

War was a major subject of discussion at the Radcliffe Institute this 

past year. Not only was it the focus of the Institute’s annual conference 

on women, gender, and society (see page 16), but the Voices 

of Public Intellectuals (VPI) series explored the displacement of 

people during war, and the Rama S. Mehta Lecture and the annual 

Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture addressed issues pertaining 

to war and foreign policy. 

The Voices of Public Intellectuals series began in December with 

a lecture by Roberta Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, 

who outlined the plight of an estimated 20 million to 25 

million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in countries such as 

Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. Unlike refugees, whose 

flight across national borders qualifies them for international aid, 

IDPs are cast adrift within their home countries. While more must 

be done to protect displaced populations, the real solution, Cohen 

believes, lies in greater involvement by the United Nations, regional 

organizations, and governments to mediate the disputes that 

cause displacement. 

Peter Salama, chief of immunization and child survival for UNICEF, 

presented the second lecture in the VPI series, titled “Why People 

Die When They Flee from Conflict.” He offered examples of preventable 

deaths from causes such as communicable diseases and 

childbearing and advocated a greater emphasis on rapid assessment 

and response to crises; a shift to outreach strategies rather 

than waiting for those in need to reach relief facilities; and greater 

attention to the cultural and political factors that influence population 

displacement. 

In the final VPI lecture, Irene Khan, the secretary general of 

Amnesty International, spoke about the violence against women 

that occurs during war. The most important factor in the prevalence 

of rape in war is “rampant impunity,” Khan said. With a conviction 

rate of 10 percent—“even less in situations where 

governments have broken down or in refugee camps”—rape is a 

crime that often goes unreported and unpunished. “The ‘War on 

Terror’ gets a lot of publicity,” Khan said, “but the war on women, 

unfortunately, does not.” 

Iraqi activist Hanaa Edwar, who delivered the Rama S. Mehta Lecture, 

was similarly concerned with women’s rights. Edwar and her 

colleagues have lobbied for reforms in family law that will raise the 

minimum age for marriage, ensure women the right to legally separate 

from their husbands, and strengthen women’s custody rights. 

“Social equality for women is essential for the development of 

democratic institutions,” she said. “A woman can’t have equality in 

her public and political life if she doesn’t have equality in her family 

life.” Edwar described the assaults that occur daily in Iraq: “Every 

day there are explosions near our offices. It’s not human to consider 

this a normal life. But we can’t give up.” 

Samantha Power, a professor of human-rights practice at Harvard’s 

John F. Kennedy School of Government, is looking for alternatives 

to America’s current foreign policy. She delivered the Maurine 

and Robert Rothschild Lecture, supported by Robert F. Rothschild 

’39 in memory of Maurine P. Rothschild ’40. Organized by the 

Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, the lecture 

was titled “Can United States Foreign Policy Be Fixed” 

Power said that American foreign policy is beset by long-standing 

structural problems. We have tended to take an “à la carte” 

approach, picking and choosing rather than considering larger 

humanitarian goals about where to become involved. “We want a 

menu,” Power said. “Iraq, yes; Congo, no. SARS, yes; river blindness, 

no. We don’t want to invest in the system as a whole.” 

She argued that we can’t afford to pull back from our engagement 

with the world and that we need to recognize the extent to which 

human-rights policy and national-security policy are linked. 

To watch the VPI lectures about people displaced during war, visit 

www.radcliffe.edu/events/lecture/2006_vpi.php. 

To watch Edwar’s lecture, visit www.radcliffe.edu/events/lectures/2006_edwar.php. 

To watch Power’s lecture, visit www.radcliffe.edu/events/lectures/2006_power.php. 

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“Directed Matrix Seeding of Semiconductor Nanostructure 

Arrays” 

Rachel S. Goldman, University of Michigan 

irene khan 

samantha power 

roberta cohen 

peter salama 


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January 2006 

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“Martyrs in Rivalry: Interactions between Christians and Jews 

during the Twelfth Century” 

Eva Haverkamp, Rice University 

Acquisitions Enrich Schlesinger’s Collections 

It’s a measure of the Schlesinger Library’s prominence as the leading 

repository of papers on American women’s history that gifts 

continue accruing to the library from a variety of sources. 

Elizabeth Gilmore Holt AM ’32 was living in post–World War II 

Berlin when many of the city’s residents were selling their possessions 

in order to survive. She purchased thirty-three volumes of 

the French fashion magazine La Mode Illustrée for her young 

daughter, who liked to use the patterns in the magazines to make 

clothes for her dolls. Years later, when the daughter, Elizabeth 

(Betsy) Holt Muench, was living in Lexington, Massachusetts, and 

considering a move to a retirement community, she contacted the 

Schlesinger to ask whether the library would be interested in 

acquiring her beloved magazine collection. The bound volumes, 

spanning 1860 to 1896, make up the longest known run of this 

periodical in any American library and perhaps the largest holding 

in any library outside France. 

A related acquisition was two rare bound volumes of nineteenthcentury 

American periodicals: Mrs. Whittlesey’s Magazine for Mothers 

for 1855 and The American Ladies’ Magazine, edited by Sarah 

Josepha Hall, for 1835, both donated by Marion Hall Hunt ’63. 

These acquisitions are significant additions to the library’s rich 

collections of women’s periodicals. The Izola Forrester Collection 

and Sally Fox Collection are two other important acquisitions this 

past year. 

Among the papers of feminist leaders that the library acquired are 

those of Susan Schechter, a pioneer in the movement to prevent 

domestic violence. Schechter’s husband, Allen Steinberg, arranged 

for the papers of his late wife to come to the Schlesinger. 

Perhaps the most significant gift the library received this year was 

the papers of Marjorie Henderson Buell, creator of “Little Lulu,” 

the feisty girl who was featured in newspaper and magazine comics 

from 1935 through 1944. The Marge Papers were given to the 

library by the cartoonist’s sons, Lawrence Buell, the Powell M. 

Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard, and Frederick 

Buell, professor of English at Queens College at the City University 

of New York. “The Schlesinger is incomparably the best place at 

which to do research into the life and work of the first woman cartoonist 

to achieve international fame,” said Lawrence Buell. “We 

are certain that ‘Marge’ herself would have approved our choice 

enthusiastically.” 

Marjorie Henderson Buell, who died in 1993, imagined in Little 

Lulu a self-reliant role model for girls. The eldest of three artistic 

sisters, Buell was born in 1904 and grew up in Philadelphia. Her 

mother was an amateur cartoonist, and her father, a lawyer, was a 

raconteur who home-schooled his daughters through the fourth 

grade. At the age of eight, Buell was selling drawings to her friends, 

and in high school she worked out of her studio in a converted 

chicken coop and sold cartoons to the Philadelphia Ledger. By 1929, 

she had two syndicated strips, “The Boy Friend” and “Dashing 

Dot,” published under the name “Marge” and featuring worldlywise 

young flappers with sleek bobs, long legs, and short skirts. 

Today, all aspects of Marjorie Henderson Buell’s long career are 

represented in her papers housed at the library. 

Class of ’56 Makes Reunion Gift to Library 

Like the classes of 1954 and 1955, the Class of 1956 earmarked 

its fiftieth-reunion gift for the Schlesinger Library. The drive was led 

by Phyllis (Patty) Trustman Gelfman ’56 and Rosemary Fenech 

Enthoven ’56. The class asked to have its gift of more than 

$410,000 used for purchasing, processing, and digitizing papers of 

women of the 1950s. “I was looking around for something that 

everybody could agree on,” says Gelfman. “I presented the idea of 

the Schlesinger Library, and everybody thought it was a terrific idea, 

so we moved forward.” Gelfman, who serves on the Schlesinger 

Library Council, proudly points out that at least two members of 

the Class of 1956 will be represented in the Schlesinger Library’s 

papers of 1950s women. Poet Jean Valentine ’56 gave her papers to 

the Schlesinger in 2005, and businesswoman Marina von Neuman 

Whitman ’56 plans to donate hers as well. 

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“Descriptions of Syntax” 

James Rogers, Earlham College 

25 


“Heedless of Grammar” 

Geoffrey K. Pullum, University of California at Santa Cruz 

a postcard from the sally fox collection 

izola forrester and her children 

la mode illustrée 

la mode illustrée 

marjorie henderson buell 


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February 2006 

1 


“Sixties Activism and the Political Responsibilities of 

Universities” 

Julie Reuben, Harvard Graduate School of Education 

1 


Sisters in Cinema, directed by Yvonne Welbon 

Followed by a discussion with Lisa Simmons, Color of 

Film Collaborative 

3 

Public Discussion 

George Chauncey, professor of history, University 

of Chicago 

Cosponsored by the history department, the Charles 

Warren Center for Studies in American History, the 

Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and 

the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the 

History of Women in America 

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Public Lecture 

“Conflict and Displacement: Breaking the Cycle” 

Dennis McNamara, United Nations Inter-Agency Internal 

Displacement Division 

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 

the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and the Radcliffe 

Institute for Advanced Study in coordination with its 

2005–2006 Voices of Public Intellectuals lecture series, 

War and the Displacement of People 

8 


“Questions in Contemporary Chinese Cinema” 

Rey Chow, Brown University 

Exploring the Sky and Earth 

The Institute’s science programming, led by Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe 

dean of science and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in 

the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Division of Engineering and Applied 

Sciences at Harvard, featured explorations of the sky and earth: a lecture 

series and panel discussion on astronomy and a symposium 

about the impact of humans on nature. As in previous years, these 

events brought prominent scientists to Harvard, where they shared 

their work-in-progress with students and faculty and strengthened or 

developed connections with colleagues in their fields. 

The first speaker in the astronomy lecture series was Ray Jayawardhana, 

an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the 

University of Toronto, whose presentation was also the first Dean’s 

Lecture of the year. Jayawardhana described “hot Jupiters” that circle 

close to their parent stars, unlike our local Jupiter, which keeps 

a certain distance from the Sun. “It came as quite a surprise that 

there would be a Jupiter-like gas giant so close in, baked in the heat 

of its parent star,” he said. Other phenomena that interest him are 

brown dwarfs, which he described as “these strange beasts that are 

in between stars and planets.” Though they begin their lives looking 

shiny, brown dwarfs end up billions of years later looking like 

our oversized, cloud-covered Jupiter. 

In her lecture, Debra Fischer, an associate professor of astronomy at 

San Francisco State University, suggested that there’s an enormous 

range of solar-system architecture and that our solar system, with the 

Sun and its nine planets, may not be typical. “Perhaps anything that’s 

allowed by mechanics and the laws of gravity ends up as a possibility,” 

she said. Scientists have already discovered some 160 planets 

around distant stars, and more work remains for planet hunters. 

Elizabeth Lada, a professor of astronomy at the University of Florida, 

delivered a lecture in which she described how stars form in 

clusters. “Most stars form in what we call giant molecular clouds,” 

dark bodies filled with cold dust and gas, she said. “These clouds 

are the largest objects in the galaxy. They also happen to be the 

coldest objects in the universe,” just above absolute zero. She calls 

these frozen vapors the “prenatal birth sites of young stars.” 

Generations of women astronomers spoke at the panel discussion 

titled “The Sky’s Not the Limit: Women in Astronomy.” Five prominent 

astronomers in the Science Center and a sixth participating by 

audiotape spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about how they 

advanced in this male-dominated field. Several of the women emphasized 

an early passion for the night sky. E. Margaret Burbidge, a professor 

emerita of physics at the University of San Diego, described 

crossing the English Channel at night when she was four. “I’d never 

seen the stars before,” she said. “And I was sold, right there and 

then. Have been since.” Burbidge made important contributions to 

the field, including some of the earliest work calculating the masses 

of galaxies. 

C. Meg Urry, director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, 

has used space telescopes to conduct a census of black 

holes in the early universe, among other achievements over the past 

twenty years. She stressed that the gender barriers women face in 

astronomy have not disappeared. 

Focusing on the planet we live on, a solemn message was delivered at 

a March symposium titled “Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: Perspectives 

on the Human Appropriation of the Natural World.” The symposium 

featured seven speakers from a range of disciplines, including 

agriculture, oceanography, and zoology. During the current “Anthropocene,” 

the geologic era dominated by Homo sapiens, we have left 

our mark on almost every other species. Between an eighth and a 

third of the earth’s five to ten million species are currently threatened 

by extinction. Fish stocks are diminishing, and coral reefs are dying. 

Big animals are perishing, and wild birds are disappearing. As Jeremy 

B. C. Jackson, the William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography 

at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, put it, “Everything 

we like is decreasing. Everything we don’t like is increasing.” 

To watch the three astronomers delivering their lectures, visit the following 

Web addresses: Ray Jayawardhana: www.radcliffe.edu/events/ 

lectures/2005_jayawardhana.php; Elizabeth Lada: www.radcliffe.edu/ 

events/lectures/2006_lada.php; Debra Fischer: www.radcliffe.edu/ 

events/lectures/2006_fischer.php 

To watch the biodiversity conference presentation, visit 

www.radcliffe.edu/events/conferences/2006_biodiversity.php 

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“'The Marriage Covenant is at the Foundation of All Our 

Rights': Slave and Free Black Marriages in the Nineteenth 

Century” 

Tera W. Hunter, Carnegie Mellon University 

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Lecture in the Sciences 

“Formation and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems” 

Debra Fischer, San Francisco State University 


Astrophysics. 

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“Plato on Models and Trees” 

Mary-Louise Gill, Brown University 

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Public Lecture 

“Maroons and the Emancipation Process in the United 

States” 

Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania 

elizabeth lada 

left to right: 

martha hazen, e. margaret burbidge, virginia trimble, c. meg urry, sidney c. wolff 

jay jayawardhana 

undergraduates and prominent women astronomers 

at a reception in the putnam gallery 

debra fischer 


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March 2006 

1 


Orlando, directed by Sally Potter 

Followed by a discussion with Kate Thomas, Bryn Mawr 

College 

2 


“Why People Die When They Flee from Conflict: What We 

Have Learned about War-Related Famine and Disease in the 

Last Twenty-Five Years” 

Peter Salama, UNICEF 

6–24 

Exhibition 

Sarah Sze, Columbia University 

Baker Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard 

8 


“Interdisciplinarity on the Benchtop: Cognition and Learning 

in Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratories” 

Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of 

Technology 

10 

Science Symposium 

Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on the Human 

Appropriation of the Natural World 

Cosponsored by Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and 

the Center for the Environment, Harvard University 

Barbara J. Grosz, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

and Harvard University; Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Center for 

Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution 

of Oceanography, and University of California at San 

Diego; Susan Kidwell, University of Chicago; Paul L. Koch, 

University of California at Santa Cruz; Simon A. Levin, 

Princeton University; Georgina Mace, Institute of Zoology, 

Zoological Society of London; Paul R. Moorcroft, Harvard 

University; Anne Pringle, Harvard University; Amy Y. 

Rossman, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, 

United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural 

Research Service; Daniel Schrag, Harvard University; 

David S. Wilcove, Princeton University 

Artists Challenge Conventional Views 

The Radcliffe Institute has hosted some of the world’s most outstanding 

artists—performance artists, sculptors, composers, novelists, 

and poets among them. The Institute is distinguished by the 

fact that it’s one of the few programs of its kind that include artists. 

And, as artists often do, those at Radcliffe seem to enjoy shaking 

things up, challenging established ways of seeing and doing. 

Two of the artists in residence this past year, composer Dmitri 

Tymoczko and sculptor Sarah Sze, are especially adept at giving 

their audiences something new to grapple with. Tymoczko draws on 

a range of traditions to compose his music, including impressionism, 

minimalism, jazz, and rock. In a note to performers of “The 

Eggman Variations,” commissioned by the Arizona Friends of 

Chamber Music for Ursula Oppens ’65 and the Pacifica Quartet, 

Tymoczko writes, “This music is meant to be challenging but not 

awkward.” 

An assistant professor at Princeton University, Tymoczko has won 

numerous prizes and awards for his work, including a Charles Ives 

Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and 

fellowships from Tanglewood, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, and 

the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. 

“As a scholar, I am trying to develop new ways of thinking about 

‘tonality,’” Tymoczko says. “As a composer, I am trying to use tools 

to write music that is expressive, powerful, and new.” His music 

has been performed by the Brentano Quartet, the Network for New 

Music, the Synergy Vocal Ensemble, and other groups. His articles 

have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, and Music 

Theory Spectrum. 

Park (Corner Plot, 2006), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

(Blue Poles, 2006), the Whitney Museum of American Art (The Triple 

Point of Water, 2003), and the Venice Biennale (48th International 

Exhibition of Contemporary Art, 1999). In 2003, she received a 

MacArthur Fellowship. 

Sze’s site-specific work explores a basic challenge of sculpture: how 

to breathe life into inanimate objects. Using humble materials, she 

creates works that seem to function as independent organisms, 

with fragile internal life-support systems. “What I’m interested in is 

the relationship of one object to another and the gradual accumulation 

of objects to create a complex system,” she says. “I think 

this reflects the actual way in which we experience our physical surroundings 

every day.” 

Other artists at the Radcliffe Institute this past year were Lee 

Breuer (playwriting); Geraldine Brooks (fiction); Ann Carlson 

(dance); Abigail Child (filmmaking); Vyvyane Loh (fiction); and 

Betty Shamieh (playwriting). 

Artists Win Awards 

In April, the Radcliffe Institute rejoiced when Geraldine Brooks, the 

Vera M. Schuyler Fellow in 2005–2006, won the Pulitzer in fiction 

for her novel March (Viking, 2005), an imagined Civil War year as 

experienced by the absent father of Little Women. 

Other Radcliffe artists who recently received honors include performance 

artist John Kelly RI ’05, who won the Gilmore D. Clark/Michael 

Rapuano Rome Prize; and Zadie Smith RI ’03, who won the Orange 

Prize for Fiction for her third novel, On Beauty (Penguin Press, 2005), 

which is set at a fictional college in Massachusetts. 

Sculptor Sarah Sze, who held the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellowship 

at Radcliffe, was trained as a conventional painter when she 

was an undergraduate at Yale. It wasn’t until she switched from 

painting to sculpture that she found something uniquely her own to 

say. Since earning her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New 

York, Sze has had numerous solo exhibitions and has installed her 

work at sites throughout the world, including New York’s Central 

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“Flight from Attack and Atrocity: The Impact of War-Induced 

Violence Against Women” 

Irene Khan, Amnesty International 

15 


“The Novel of Ideas” 

Vyvyane Loh, independent writer 

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“Recent Work”: Artist's Talk 

Sarah Sze, Columbia University 

dmitri tymoczko 

lee breuer 

sarah sze 

ann carlson 


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3–21 


“Montage and Melodrama”: Artist's Talk and Exhibition 

Opening 

Abigail Child, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

5 


“Will That Subaltern Ever Speak: Finding Slaves’ Voices in 

the Historiography of Africa and the Middle East” 

Eve M. Troutt Powell, University of Georgia 

5 


Craig’s Wife, directed by Dorothy Arzner 

Followed by a discussion with Kathy Peiss, University of 

Pennsylvania 

6 


“Gender, Genes, and Genesis” 

Patricia J. Williams, Columbia Law School 

10 


“Embedded Clusters: Laboratories for Understanding the 

Origin of Stars and Planets” 

Elizabeth A. Lada, University of Florida 


Astrophysics and the Harvard University Department of 

Physics 

10–September 25 

Exhibition 

Camp Schlesinger 

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of 

Women in America 

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“The Scope of Eighth Amendment Protection for Prisoners” 

Sharon Dolovich, UCLA School of Law 

Library Offers Wealth of Collections 

In its continuing efforts to acquire materials that depict the full 

record of women’s lives and activities, the Schlesinger Library this 

past year conducted a survey of its current collections; consulted a 

group of historians for their views about the strengths and weaknesses 

of the library’s collections; and sought advice from the historians 

about future research and acquisitions. 

Executive Director Marilyn Dunn led a committee of library staff 

members in the survey of current holdings, which categorized both 

manuscript and printed materials. The survey of manuscripts is 

especially detailed, recording holdings in culinary history and home 

economics; education; employment and labor unions; family and 

domestic life; fine arts; health and reproductive issues; and many 

more areas. The survey also searched for international materials, 

revealing dozens of manuscript collections with substantial contents 

on China, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, and other parts 

of the globe. 

Nancy F. Cott, the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director 

of the library and the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, 

convened a group of twelve historians, each an expert in a 

different dimension of United States women’s history, to get their 

assessment of the library’s collections and their views on future 

directions. The group included Ann Braude (Harvard Divinity 

School); Jacqueline Dowd Hall RI ’04 (University of North Carolina); 

Cynthia Harrison (George Washington University); Nancy 

Hewitt (Rutgers University); Tera W. Hunter RI ’06 (Carnegie Mellon 

University); Mary Lui (Yale University); Joanne Meyerowitz (Yale 

University); Kathy Peiss RI ’06 (University of Pennsylvania); Jan 

Radway (Duke University); Virginia Sanchez-Korrol (Brooklyn College); 

Laurel Ulrich (Harvard University); and Susan Ware (independent 

scholar). 

The visiting historians were enormously impressed with the range 

and wealth of the Schlesinger’s holdings and had many recommendations 

for growth. The library is currently considering which of 

their recommendations can be implemented. 

Harvard historian Laurel Ulrich said, “It is exciting to see the 

Schlesinger emerge from cramped temporary quarters into such a 

peaceful and light-filled new space, a fitting setting for collections 

that challenge, enrich, and amaze, and that offer unexpected 

directions for professional and undergraduate research. Although 

advisory groups can always come up with ideas for additions, I 

think we were collectively astonished at the depth and range of the 

collections. Better yet, the staff has the knowledge and enthusiasm 

to make them accessible.” 

Library Exhibits Focus on War and Summer Camp 

In connection with the Radcliffe Institute’s November conference 

on women in the war zone, the library exhibited a variety of artifacts 

from its collections related to women’s experience with war, from 

the Civil War through the Gulf War. The exhibit was on display from 

October 3, 2005, through March 31, 2006. Included were letters, 

diaries, posters, and photographs. For more information, visit 

www.radcliffe.edu/schles/index.php. 

A spring and summer exhibit, running from April through September, 

highlighted materials from the book, manuscript, and photograph 

collections that illustrate the experience of girls at sleep-away 

summer camps throughout the twentieth century. Featured were 

camp diaries, letters home, camp brochures, menus, a book on trail 

cookery and crafts, and an assortment of buttons, blue ribbons, and 

pennants. Camp uniforms, including middies, shorts, and sweatshirts 

(all with name tags) hung from a clothesline. 

Camp records shed light on important aspects of American 

women’s history, illustrating the ideals of the Progressive Era (when 

most camps were born), the economic hardships of the Great 

Depression, the patriotism and sacrifices of the World War II era, 

and the social changes of the 1960s. 

These records also document the evolution of girlhood during the 

twentieth century. Early campers cooked, danced, sewed, swam, 

rode horses, rowed canoes, and played games. As times changed, 

activities came to include waterskiing, windsurfing, sailing, and 

rock climbing. 

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“Making Fiction from Fact” 

Geraldine Brooks, independent writer 

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“The Dragon Cart: The Femme Fatale in Seventeenth-Century 

French Opera” 

Susan McClary, University of California at Los Angeles 

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Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture 

“Can US Foreign Policy Be Fixed” 

Samantha Power, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 


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“A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World” 

Tony Horwitz, independent writer 

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Conference 

The Future of Human Rights Practice: Innovations in Africa 

Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on 

African Studies Initiative Working Group on Power, 

Authority and Governance; Harvard University Committee 

on Human Rights Study; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced 

Study; and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative 

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“Writing Twentieth-Century Lives: A Panel Discussion with 

Historians Lizabeth Cohen, Linda Gordon, and Alice Kessler 

Harris” 

Cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe 

Institute for Advanced Study, the Humanities Center, and 

the Department of History at Harvard University 

Lizabeth Cohen AM ’97, RI ’02, Harvard University; Nancy 

F. Cott, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard 

University; Linda Gordon, New York University; Alice 

Kessler Harris RI ’02, Columbia University 


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May 2006 

1 

Rama Mehta Lecture 

“The Role of Iraqi NGOs in the Iraqi Democratic Process” 

Hanaa Edwar, Iraqi Al-Amal Association 

Cosponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 

John F. Kennedy School of Government, 

Harvard University. 

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“Alexander in Asia: Shared Histories of Universal Empire in 

Early Modern Literature from the British Isles to the Malay 

Archipelago” 

Su Fang Ng, University of Oklahoma 

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Eve’s Bayou, directed by Kasi Lemmons 

Followed by a discussion with Lorna Lowe Streeter, 

filmmaker-in-residence at WGBH 

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Exhibition 

Ann Carlson, independent artist 

Baker Room, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard 

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“The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of 

Atlantic Slavery” 

Vincent Brown, Harvard University 

From Genetics in Clinical Medicine to Pragmatism in the 

Social Sciences 

Scientists know that women and men have different risks for many 

disorders, but it’s unclear how the mechanisms of sex difference 

function. Jill M. Goldstein and Louise E. Wilkins-Haug, both of the 

Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wanted 

to explore this topic. They proposed holding an Exploratory Seminar, 

titled “Understanding the Genetics of Sex Effects in Clinical Medicine,” 

at the Radcliffe Institute. Goldstein and Wilkins-Haug convened 

basic scientists and clinicians to initiate dialogue across disciplines 

and promote the understanding of clinical and behavioral sex differences. 

As a result of the seminar, they have organized a working 

group of Harvard investigators that continues to explore this topic. 

The Radcliffe Institute hosted several seminars like this over the past 

year for Harvard faculty members. These one- to three-day meetings, 

called Exploratory and Advanced Seminars, have been sponsored by 

the Institute since the fall of 2002. Exploratory Seminars allow faculty 

members the opportunity to investigate new topics, while Advanced 

Seminars are meant for subjects that are more developed and will 

lead to the publication of papers. In 2005–2006, the Institute sponsored 

ten Exploratory Seminars and one Advanced Seminar. 

Catherine C. Ayoub of the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard 

Graduate School of Education led an Advanced Seminar examining 

the impact of Early Head Start and other child-care opportunities 

offered to low-income families. 

The nine other Exploratory Seminars—in addition to the one led by 

Goldstein and Wilkins-Haug—are listed below in chronological order. 

● “Solving Darwin’s Mystery: The Genomics of Speciation and 

Modern Approaches to Biodiversity” led by Hans A. Hofmann of 

the Bauer Center for Genomic Research, Scott Edwards of the 

organismic and evolutionary biology department and the Museum 

of Comparative Zoology, and Rob Kulathinal of the molecular 

and cellular biology department 

● “Estimations Are Approximations: Multiresolution Modeling and Statistical 

Inference” led by Patrick J. Wolfe of the Division of Engineering 

and Applied Science and Xiao-Li Meng of the statistics department 

● “Making America: A New History of American Literature” led by 

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Werner Sollors of the English department and the African and 

African American studies department, Lindsay Waters of Harvard 

University Press, and Greil Marcus 

“What’s in a Norm Exploring the Transnational Bases of Idea Formation 

and Circulation” led by Mary D. Lewis of the history department, 

and Sanjeev Khagram and Peggy Levitt of the John F. 

Kennedy School of Government 

“Opening up the Archives” led by Ann Blair of the history department 

and Jennifer Milligan of the history and literature department 

“Search for Biomarkers of Female Reproductive Function” led by 

Janet Rich-Edwards of the Harvard Medical School 

“Ecological Genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana” led by Kathleen Donohue 

of the organismic and evolutionary biology department 

“Hellenistic Science and Scholarship” led by Mark J. Schiefsky and 

Francesca Schironi of the classics department 

“Pragmatism and the Social Sciences” led by Chris Winship of the 

sociology department and Archon Fung of the John F. Kennedy 

School of Government 

Nine academic departments and four schools at Harvard were represented 

by faculty members who led Exploratory and Advanced Seminars, 

and 180 people participated in the seminars. For more 

information, visit www.radcliffe.edu/research/adv-expl.php. 

Economics Cluster Investigates Women’s Experience in Higher 

Education 

Two distinguished Harvard economists, Claudia Goldin RI ’06 and 

Lawrence Katz RI ’06, led a research cluster that studied the ascendance 

of women in higher education and the professional world. Goldin’s 

work in this area began in 2003–2004, when she led an Advanced Seminar 

at Radcliffe. The Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard, 

Goldin held the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellowship at Radcliffe. She 

and Katz, the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard, were 

joined in the economics cluster by Harvard historian Julie Reuben RI 

’06, Boston University economist Claudia Olivetti RI ’06, and University 

of Virginia economist Sarah Turner. The cluster resulted in two workshops 

in the spring, titled “Feminism and Higher Eduation” and 

“Women and Professional Occupations.” 

To read about Goldin and Katz’s research, visit www.radcliffe.edu/about/ 

news/quarterly. 

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“The Ecological Genetics of Arabidopsis thaliana” 

Sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

and the Arnold Arboretum 

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“Again and Against: Excerpts of Work by Betty Shamieh” 

Betty Shamieh, Marymount Manhattan College 

scott edwards 

archon fung 

mary d. lewis 

claudia goldin 

xiao-li meng 


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June 2006 

9 

Radcliffe Day 

Linda Greenhouse ’68, the New York Times Supreme Court 

correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, Radcliffe 

Medalist 

Radcliffe Day 2006 

The day after Harvard’s Commencement is always Radcliffe Day, the 

culmination of reunion week for Radcliffe College alumnae. It’s also 

a day when the Radcliffe Institute’s roots in Radcliffe College are 

especially evident and celebrated. This year for the first time, a Radcliffe 

College alumna was selected to receive the Radcliffe Institute 

Medal. Approximately eight hundred people attended the annual 

luncheon where Linda Greenhouse ’68 received her medal and delivered 

a poignant speech. Earlier in the day, the Radcliffe Alumnae 

Awards Symposium in Agassiz House was attended by 375 people. 

Holding with tradition, alumnae started the day by gathering to 

honor classmates and friends at the annual commemorative service. 

Linda Greenhouse ’68 Receives Radcliffe Institute Medal 

Greenhouse, the renowned commentator on the United States 

Supreme Court who writes for the New York Times, described the 

shortcomings and achievements of her baby boom generation. Several 

years ago, when she and her husband went to a Simon and Garfunkel 

concert in Washington, DC, she burst into tears after hearing 

the line “They’ve all come in search of America.” She couldn’t stop 

crying, an unusual reaction for her, but a few days later, she realized 

why. She had always believed that her generation would do a better 

job than its predecessors and now she realized it hadn’t. “We had 

not learned from the old mistakes,” she said. “Our generation had 

not proved to be the solution. We were the problem.” 

At the same time, however, Greenhouse acknowledged the impressive 

gains that women of her generation have made in the workplace. 

She listed several Radcliffe alumnae who hold high-level positions at 

the New York Times: Jill Abramson ’76 is the managing editor; Susan 

Chira ’80 is the foreign editor; and Alison Mitchell ’76 is the editor in 

charge of news about education. “No young woman has to feel that 

any door in journalism is closed to her,” Greenhouse said. 

Women, Power, and Change: How Far Have We Come 

At the morning symposium, each award recipient reflected on this 

question. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Susan Faludi ’81, who 

received an Alumnae Recognition Award, said consumer culture 

has “manipulated feminist rhetoric to sell women everything from 

credit cards to cosmetic surgery to antidepressants. In the process, 

it sold women on a great complacency.” 

Amy Gutmann ’71, PhD ’76, president of the University of Pennsylvania 

and another recipient of an Alumnae Recognition Award, 

said, “If we have learned anything from the great civil rights movement, 

it is that there is no substitute for joining together and tackling 

injustice head-on.” 

Jane Roland Martin ’51, EdM ’56, PhD ’61, BI ’81, a professor emerita 

of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, who 

also received an Alumnae Recognition Award, described how education 

has changed women and women have changed education. 

Judith Lewis Herman ’64, MD ’68, BI ’85, RI ’02, a pioneer in the 

study of sexual abuse of women and children, said she tried to curb 

her protestations whenever she heard a woman being disparaged 

at work. “Even so,” she said, “I was mouthing off all the time.” 

Herman received a Graduate Society Award. 

The other recipient of the Graduate Society Award, Elaine Pagels 

PhD ’70, the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at 

Princeton University, was unable to attend the symposium. 

The Jane Rainie Opel ’50 Young Alumna Award was presented in 

absentia to Jehane Noujaim ’96, an award-winning filmmaker. 

Distinguished Service Awards were presented to the following six 

alumnae: Joan Harvey Burns ’56, Ann Farist Butler ’51, Paula Budlong 

Cronin ’56, Ann Myers Hershfang ’56, Katharine F. Mack ’46, 

and Sheila Brown Rice ’51. 

Alice Randall ’81 Speaks at Commemorative Service 

Radcliffe Day began with an early morning service in The Memorial 

Church, at which the Radcliffe Reunion Choir sang and representatives 

of reunion classes spoke. Cassandra Chrones Moore ’56 delivered 

the welcome, and Alice Randall ’81, a novelist, gave the address. 

For full coverage of Radcliffe Day, visit www.radcliffe.edu/alumnae/events. 

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cassandra chrones moore 

alice randall 

linda greenhouse 

judith lewis herman 

susan faludi 

left to right: 

ann farist butler, sheila brown rice, joan harvey burns, 

ann myers hershfang, paula budlong cronin; 

not pictured: katharine f. mack 

jane roland martin 

amy gutmann 


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Advancement Highlights 

A Year of Wonders 

It’s a pleasure to thank the many friends who attended Radcliffe 

Institute events and supported our scholarly and creative work 

this year. 

In all, new gifts and pledges to the Institute totaled $11,287,861. 

Highlights of the year in giving include: 

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Five members of the reunion classes of 1971 and 1981 established 

important endowment funds to support a fellowship as 

well as program funding for science; research on children or life 

sciences; work in the arts and humanities; and a dean’s discretionary 

fund. This kind of farsighted, flexible philanthropy 

ensures that we will remain agile—able to take advantage of 

opportunities as they arise and to meet the needs of scholarship 

in a rapidly changing world. 

Current-use, unrestricted gifts to the Radcliffe Institute Fund 

rose by 9 percent, buoyed by a strong year for the phonathon. 

Our student callers raised more than $450,000 from generous 

alumnae/i and friends. We very much appreciate those who provide 

this essential support for the Institute’s core operations, 

and the enthusiastic Harvard College students who represent us 

so well. 

The Radcliffe Class of 1956 set a record for a fiftieth-reunion 

class gift for a single purpose. The class raised more than 

$410,000 for the Schlesinger Library, creating a fund that will 

support collections highlighting women whose lives and accomplishments 

took shape during the 1950s. We are grateful to 

these Radcliffe women who are keeping the Schlesinger Library 

vital and strong by helping to preserve and make accessible the 

history of American women. 

The Radcliffe Class of 1956 broke ground in another way as well. 

On June 7, Pulitzer Prize–winning Radcliffe fellow Geraldine 

Brooks RI ’06 captivated Radcliffe and Harvard alums from the 

Class of 1956 at a luncheon in Radcliffe Yard. This luncheon was 

one of many stimulating events that were part of the first fully 

joint fiftieth reunion in Harvard and Radcliffe history. 

Last November, our annual gender conference focused on gender 

in the war zone, bringing scholars, members of the armed forces, 

and others to Cambridge to discuss this subject. We then took the 

topic on the road, with panels in San Francisco, Washington, DC, 

and New York City. All three panels highlighted Radcliffe alumnae/i 

and friends who were involved in the military, including a 

Naval Reserve recruiter, a West Point professor, and a filmmaker 

who is making a documentary about female soldiers in Iraq. Each 

of the panels drew a large and engaged audience. 

In October, historian Barbara McCaskill RI ’05 spoke to the Harvard 

Club of Atlanta about her research on William and Ellen 

Craft, a slave couple who made a remarkable escape, with fairskinned 

Ellen disguised as a white male planter and William posing 

as her servant. In the winter, Executive Dean Louise 

Richardson spoke at the Harvard Club of Boston on the motives 

of terrorists and what we have learned about how to combat them. 

In the spring, four 2005–2006 fellows—choreographer Ann Carlson, 

playwright Betty Shamieh, sculptor Sarah Sze, and composer 

Dmitri Tymoczko—participated in a panel at the Harvard Club of 

New York titled “Inside the Arts: Drama | Music | Dance | Sculpture.” 

The panel was moderated by John Rockwell ’62, senior cultural 

correspondent for the New York Times. 

Year of Wonders, the title of a 2001 novel by Geraldine Brooks, 

reminds me of the way we experience each year at the Radcliffe 

Institute, as our fellows analyze and reflect, discover and create. 

We are profoundly grateful to the many friends who make these 

wonders possible. 

tamara elliott rogers ’74 

Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning 

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fiscal Year July 1, 2005 – June 30, 2006 

Financial Summary 

The Institute continues to be on firm financial footing, enabling 

us to pursue our planned capital spending program and respond 

to new opportunities in our academic programs. We owe much of 

this success to the generous support of alumnae/i and friends, as 

well as to the hard work of all our staff. 

Income from all sources increased by a total of 4 percent over the 

prior year. Due to an excellent year of fundraising in 2004–2005 

and strong performance by the Harvard Management Company, 

Radcliffe’s endowment income increased by 14 percent and now 

represents 76 percent of the Institute’s income. Current-use gifts, 

which were exceptionally high in 2004–2005, declined by 3 percent 

in 2005–2006. 

Total operating expenses increased by 12 percent, excluding costs 

of programs transferred elsewhere. The largest increases were in 

costs related to physical space. Utilities and insurance costs 

increased by 29 percent. Due to the 2004–2005 completion of the 

Schlesinger Library renovations, depreciation costs increased by 

26 percent, and interest on debt increased total spending by just 

over 1 percent. After excluding these costs, total expenses 

increased by 10 percent. 

Increases in program-related expenses included a modest increase 

of 2 percent in Outreach and Education after excluding costs related 

to the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies, which transferred 

to MIT at the end of 2004–2005. 

The Fellowship Program grew by 17 percent due to several factors: 

an increase in science and social science programming, including 

clusters funded by foundations in previous years; an increase in 

nonfellow Harvard faculty involvement in the humanities and 

social science programs; and an increase in the number of fellows. 

This area now represents 30 percent of our expenses. 

The Schlesinger Library grew by 14 percent. This is entirely due to 

increased staff costs, as the library filled a number of major vacant 

positions, contributing to an increase in processing and acquisition 

work, as well as the ability to undertake several major projects. The 

Schlesinger Library now represents 16 percent of total expenses. 

operating revenue (in thousands) 

Grants and Contracts 13 (0%) 

Gifts 2,565 (13%) 

Endowment Income 15,564 (76%) 

Other Income 2,283 (11%) 

Total Operating Revenue 20,425 

expenses by function (in thousands) 

Fellowship Program 5,183 (30%) 

Schlesinger Library 2,618 (16%) 

Outreach and Education 639 (4%) 

Alumnae Affairs 974 (6%) 

Administration 3,716 (22%) 

Facilities 2,032 (12%) 

Other, including depreciation, debt service 1,704 (10%) 

Total Operating Expenses 16,866 

Despite debt service, the Institute finished with a year-end surplus 

in unrestricted funds for the third year in a row. As of June 30, 

2006, we had loans payable of $10.1 million (compared with $5.5 

million on June 30, 2005). The additional debt represents part of 

the Radcliffe Gymnasium renovations. This debt is funded by past 

investments of Harvard merger payments in the endowment, 

including $10.5 million invested in July of 2005 from 2004–2005 

surplus funds. 

Our operating-fund balances decreased as a result of the $10.5 

million investment in endowment. We received cash gifts for 

endowment of $8.3 million in 2005–2006. Since our finances are 

dependent on current-use giving and endowment income, these 

increases in endowment principal help to solidify our base 

income and meet the needs of the future. 

The endowment grew by 17 percent in 2005–2006 to $472.8 million 

as of June 30, 2006. 


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Grants and Acquisitions 

arthur and elizabeth 

schlesinger library 

on the history 

of women in america 

grants 

The Carol K. Pforzheimer Student 

Fellowship Fund supported the following 

grant recipients in 2005–2006: 

Student Fellowships 

Melissa Trahan ’07, honors thesis 

research for the Committee on 

Degrees in Studies of Women, 

Gender, and Sexuality, on the coexistence 

of femininity and athleticism in 

relation to power in the traditional 

gender dichotomy 

Kimberley Weber ’07, “Tales From the 

Wild West: How the Australian 

Frontier Experience Was Influenced by 

the American Case” 

Marisa Williamson ’08, untitled 

Danelle Moon 

San Jose State University 

“The Great Divide Or Political 

Continuity: Post-Suffrage Political 

Activism in Connecticut, 1920–1961” 

Josh Sides 

California State Northridge 

“Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and 

the Transformation of San Francisco” 

Timothy Stanley 

Trinity College, Cambridge 

“Jimmy Carter and the Democratic 

Jennifer Naccarelli 

Claremont Graduate University 

“Guided by Their Conscience: The 

Emergence of Catholic Suffrage in 

America, 1890–1920” 

Maggie Rehm 

University of Pittsburgh 

“The Art of Citizenship: Suffrage 

Literature as Social Pedagogy” 

Elizabeth Swift 

University of New Mexico 

“Class, Nostalgia, and Empire in 

Casey Cep ’07, “Writing Regionalism 

Party, 1977–1981” 

Reagan’s America” 

and Suffering Grief” 

Research Support Grants 

Samantha Barbas 

Mary Walton 

Alex Warner 

Frederic Clark ’08, “Uncovering the 

University of California at Berkeley 

“Alice Paul: The Forgotten Suffragist” 


Culture of the Hellenized Near East: 

“Images of Feminism: Gloria Steinem 

“Coming Out of the Shadows: A 

The Archeological Work of Theresa 

and the Women’s Movement” 

Jessica Weiss 

History of the Leatherdyke 

Goell and the Excavations of Nemrud 

California State University at East Bay 

Community in the United States” 

Dagi” 

Perdita Buchan 

“Kitchen Debates: Motherhood, 

Rutgers University Press 

Domesticity, and Feminism, 

Emily Westkaemper 

Gabriella Gage ’07, “Intersecting 

“The Nearest Eden: Utopian 

1955–2005” 


Identities: Kateri Tekakwitha and the 

Communities in Early Twentieth- 

“Martha Washington Goes Shopping: 

Intercultural Interactions Between 

Century New Jersey” 

Judy Wu 

Mass Culture’s Gendering of History, 

Catholic Missionaries and Mohawk 

Ohio State University 

1910–1950” 

Communities in the Seventeenth 

Marian Desrosiers 

“Radicals on the Road: Third World 

Century” 

Salve Regina University 

Internationalism and American 

“Lt. Col. Mary Agnes Brown Groover 

Orientalism during the Vietnam Era” 

Dara Goodman ’07, “‘Rest in Peace’: 

and the Role of the Women’s Corps 

A Positive Feminist Politics of Death 

Director in the Pacific During World 

Dissertation Support Grants 

and Dying” 

War II” 

Sarah Azaransky 

University of Virginia 

Alexandra Harwin ’07, “Social Advice 

Darcy Donahue 

“The Dream in Freedom: Pauli 

Amidst Social Tumult: Understanding 

Miami University, Ohio 

Murray’s Theological Vision of 

the Female Market for Marital Self- 

“In the Struggle: First Person 

Democratic Citizenship” 

Help Books, 1960–1990” 

Narratives of the Spanish Civil War by 

American Women” 

Jody Beck 

Janine Mandel ’07, “‘Remember the 

University of Pennsylvania 

Wonder’: Wonder Bread and American 

Susanne Friedberg RI ’01 

“Social Ideals and the Landscape of 

Society, 1960–2006” 

“Fresh: A Perishable History” 

the City: The Work of John Nolen, 

Landscape Architect and City Planner” 

Rabia Mir ’07, “Trafficking of Women 

Ben Harris 

and Children from Pakistan to the 

University of New Hampshire 

Abigail Carroll 

United Arab Emirates” 

“The Psychology of Betty Friedan: Her 


Sources and Limitations” 

“‘Colonial Custard’ and ‘Pilgrim 

Tracy Nowski ’07, “Misconceiving 

Soup’: Culinary Nationalism and the 

Misconceptions: The Rhetoric of the 

Kate Klonick 

Colonial Revival” 

American Reproductive Rights 


Movement” 

“Substance over Style: How NOW 

Meaghan Dwyer 

Created an Unmarketable Equal 

Boston College 

Sara Sedgwick ’06, “The Physical is 

Rights Amendment” 

“Ethnic Patriotism: Identity Strategies 

Political: Feminism, the Body, and the 

and Group Consciousness in Boston’s 

Anorexia Memoir” 

Irish and Jewish Communities, 

1898–1929” 

Susanne Stahl ’07, “Illness and 

Identity: Changes in Physical and 

Katarina Keane 

Psychological Self” 

University of Maryland at College Park 

“Second-Wave Feminism and the 

American South, 1960–1977” 

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acquisitions 

Patricia Ireland 

● feminist activist, lawyer, former 

Gretchen Schuyler 

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captain in ARC Clubmobile Service 

Organizational Records 

C/Sec, Inc. (Cesareans/Support 

Personal and Family Papers 

Bernadette J. Brooten 

● professor of Christian studies at 

Brandeis University 

● author of books and articles on theology, 

women and religion, feminist 

sexual ethics 

NOW president 

Evelyn Fox Keller 

● physicist, author, and feminist 

● professor of history and philosophy 

of science at MIT 

● professor of rhetoric, history, and 

women’s studies at the University 

● 

during WWII, Bronze Star recipient 

professor of physical education at 


Phyllis R. Silverman 

● clinical social worker, focusing on 

bereavement and widowhood 

● scholar in residence at Women’s 

Education and Concern) 

Fernside (Princeton, Massachusetts) 

(vacation home, providing affordable 

summer holidays for working girls 

from Boston, 1890–1989) 

NorthEast Coalition of Educational 

Leaders (for improving conditions of 

K–12 administrators) 

Toni Carabillo and Judith Meuli 

● Carabillo: feminist leader and historian, 

helped found the Feminist 

Majority and the California chapter 

of NOW (National Organization for 

Women) 

● Meuli: NOW activist, coauthored 

several books with Carabillo 

of California at Berkeley 

Patricia A. Kendall 

● author, helped organize first ordination 

of Episcopal women 

Leslie Hill-Levitt Latham 

● diaries and papers of Hill family 

members 

Studies Research Center, Brandeis 

University 

Judith Stein 

● Jewish lesbian feminist 

● member and chronicler of Boston 

Area Fat Liberation 

Felicia Hance Stewart 

Senior Faculty Caucus for Gender 

Equality (Harvard University) 

Women’s Community Cancer Project 

Women’s State-Wide Legislative 

Network (largest network in 

Massachusetts representing women 

on public policy issues) 

Katharine W. Carman 

● geologist and petroleum engineer 

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Elsie Mary Hill: national organizer 

for and chair of National Woman’s 

Party 

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obstetrician and gynecologist, 

author, emergency contraception 

and abortion services advocate 

Lawrence J. Centrello 

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lawyer: courtship and wartime correspondence 

Marya Randall Levenson 

● public school superintendent and 

principal 

● 

led research study establishing 

“Plan B” as safe and effective when 

sold without a physician's prescription 

Tia Cross 

● artist, teacher, lesbian, feminist, and 

civil rights activist 

● 

professor of the practice of education, 


Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell) 

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codirector of Center for 

Reproductive Health Research and 

Policy at the University of California 

at San Francisco 

Kay Dickersin 

● professor of epidemiology and 

director of Center for Clinical Trials 

at Johns Hopkins 

● advocate for breast cancer survivors 

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cartoonist, businesswoman, creator 

of Little Lulu 

Lucy (Galpin) Moorhead 

● writer, Washington, DC, hostess and 

wife of congressman 

Kip Tiernan 

● founder of Rosie’s Place, Boston 

Food Bank, Poor People’s United 

Fund, Boston Women's Fund, and 

Healthcare for the Homeless 

Elzbieta Ettinger 

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● 

professor of writing at MIT 

novelist and biographer 

Susan Moller Okin RI ’04 

● feminist political philosopher 

● professor of ethics in society at 

Katharine Wolcott Toll 

● social worker and lieutenant in the 

WAVES (Women Accepted for 

Trudy Eyges 

● 

French, English, piano, and Tai Chi 

teacher at various academic institutions, 

including MIT and Cornell 

Stanford 

Jane R. Plitt 

● first executive director of NOW, 

women’s rights advocate 

Volunteer Emergency Service) during 

World War II 

Wallace family 

● papers spanning three generations 

Izola Forrester 

● actress, journalist in Chicago and 

New York, writer of fiction, nonfiction, 

screenplays 

● Member of a theatrical family, 

mother of seven children 

Jo Anne Preston 

● assistant professor of sociology at 


● sociologist, historian, and activist 

Phyllis Rose 

● 

of women 1910–1970s, including 

Radcliffe graduates 

New England and Texas families 

Hazel Hitson Weidman 

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● 

social anthropologist and educator 

professor of social anthropology, 

Sally Fox 

● collector and researcher of the 

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● 

professor of English at Wesleyan 

writer, biographer, essayist 

University of Miami 

visual history of women 

Susan Schechter 

Glenda F. Hydler 

● artist and photographer, creator of 

autobiographical photo books 

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● 

author, leader in the domestic violence 

prevention movement 

clinical professor of social work at 

University of Iowa 

● 

founder of Advocacy for Women 

and Kids in Emergencies (AWAKE) 

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adcliffe institute dean’s council 

Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson ’56 

Albert Beveridge III LLB ’62 

A’Lelia Bundles ’74 

Perrin Moorhead Grayson ’72 

Rita E. Hauser 

Richard Hunt PhD ’60 

George Lovejoy, Jr. ’51 

Suzanne Young Murray ’62 

Diana Nelson ’84 

Katharine Clark Sachs ’70 

Nancy-Beth Gorden Sheerr ’71 

Prudence Linder Steiner ’58, AM ’76, 

PhD ’80 

Deborah Fiedler Stiles ’69, JD ’74 

Susan S. Wallach ’68, JD ’71 

Leah Zell Wanger ’71, AM ’72, PhD ’79 

schlesinger library council 

Edith Aronson ’84, EdM ’97 

Joan Challinor 

Michele Falkow ’79 

Phyllis (Patty) Trustman Gelfman ’56 

Linda J. Greenhouse ’68 

John W. Ingraham ’52, MBA ’57 

Ralph M. James MBA ’82 

Priscilla Fierman Kauff ’62 

Barbara N. Kravitz ’52, EdM ’53 

Diana M. Meehan 

Elizabeth Fleischner Rosenman ’54 

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ’38 

Marilyn Wood Hill 

radcliffe institute alumnae 

outreach advisory committee 

Monica Angle ’84 

Caroline Minot Bell ’77 

Sandra Biloon ’51 

Janet Corcoran ’79, MCR ’83 

Jennifer Flinton Diener ’67 

Christine Dooley ’86 

Ann Eldridge ’57 

Janet Wolk Gold HRPBA ’56 

Carla Herwitz ’52 

Joan Keenan ’45, HRPBA ’47 

Sandra Kolb ’68 

Michele Levy ’87 

Jane Raine Opel ’50, HRPBA ’51 

Janet Pearl ’87 

Joan Pinck ’50, BI ’69 

Ellen Reeves ’83 

Marlene Rehkamp ’82 

Maracia Kline Sharp ’68 

Katya Fels Smyth ’93 

Enid Maslon Starr ’51, HRPBA ’52 

photography 

Webb Chappell 

Jon Chase 

Justin Ide/Harvard University News Office 

Rose Lincoln/Harvard University News 

Office 

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University 

News Office 

Tony Rinaldo 

Schlesinger Library 

Army Signal Corps Photograph 

Boston YWCA Records 

Izola Forrester Collection 

Sally Fox Collection 

La Mode Illustrée 

Marge (Marjorie Henderson Buell) Papers 

Gretchen Schuyler Papers 

Women’s Bureau Photography Collection 

Kris Snibbe/Harvard University News Office 

Martha Stewart 

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exhibits 

events 

october 

New Woman: Images from the Sally Fox Collection 

Exhibition runs Tuesday, October 10, 2006, through Friday, March 30, 2007, 9 am to 5 pm. 

A reception in honor of Sally Fox, collector and researcher of the visual history of women, will take place on Thursday, 

October 26, 2006, from 4 to 6 pm. 

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 

617-495-8647 

Rama Mehta Lecture 

The Hidden Facets of Gender Inequality: Beyond the Haveli 

Bina Agarwal, professor of economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University and research fellow, Ash Institute, 

Harvard University Kennedy School of Government 

Monday, October 16, 2006, 4 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600 


Integrated Intelligence in Teams of Robots 

Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 


The Essence of Leadership 

Carol Bellamy, president and CEO, World Learning 

Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 4 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600 


Reader’s Block 

Leah Price, Harvard University, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 

Schlesinger Conference 

The Cook’s Oracle: A Celebration of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton 

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America marks the seventy-fifth birthday of 

Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, honorary curator of the culinary collection, scholar, writer, and library volunteer. In a daylong 

symposium, a distinguished group of food historians, writers, chefs, and restaurateurs will discuss Wheaton’s contributions 

to culinary scholarship and research and will explore future directions in the field. 

Saturday, October 28, 2006, 9 am–5 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600 

An exhibition of Wheaton’s favorite treasures from the Schlesinger’s renowned 

culinary collection will be on view in the library, Saturday, October 28, 9 am–5 pm, Monday, October 30–Thursday, 

November 2, 2006, 9:30 am– 4:30 pm 

november 

Movie Night at the Schlesinger Library 

Left on Pearl, directed by Susan Rivo 

A work-in-progress documentary about activists taking over a Harvard University building to create a women’s center. 

Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 6 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647 


Brown Babies: The Birth of Britain as a Racialized State, 1943–1948 

Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, professor of American studies, and 

director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization, Yale University 

Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600 

Science Symposium 

Frontiers of Tissue Engineering 

Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado at Boulder; H. David Humes, University of Michigan School of Medicine; Milan 

Mrksich, University of Chicago; Christine L. Mummery, Hubrecht Laboratory; Laura E. Niklason, Yale University School of 

Medicine; Michael R. Rosen, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Molly Shoichet, University of 

Toronto 

This symposium will convene leading engineers, scientists, and clinicians in the application of engineering design 

methodologies to provide new perspectives on replacements for failing organ systems. This event is cosponsored by the 

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University and supported by the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund. 

Friday, November 3, 2006, 8 am–5 pm, G115 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, 617-495-8600 

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Basic Equality 

C. Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212

Science Panel 

Women Surgeons: Cutting New Paths 

Myriam J. Curet, Stanford University School of Medicine; Julie Freischlag, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Verna C. Gibbs, San 

Francisco Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center; Mary Margaret Kemeny, Queens Hospital Center; Patricia J. Numann, SUNY 

Upstate Medical University 

Five women surgeons who have made important contributions to medical research and education, surgical practice and 

the communities in which they practice will discuss their field, their research, and their experiences as women in surgery. 

This event is supported by the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund. 

Monday, November 13, 2006, 4:15 pm, Lecture Hall C, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, 617-495-8600 


Designing Matter 

Cassandra L. Fraser, University of Virginia, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 


A Field Guide to Sprawl: How to Read Everyday American Landscapes 

Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism, and American studies, Yale University and fellow, Center for 

Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 

Monday, November 20, 2006, 4 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8600 


Creating the Bioelectronic Interface—How and Why 

Tayhas Palmore, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 


Breast Cancer in the Molecular Era 

Nancy E. Davidson, professor of oncology and breast cancer research chair in oncology, Johns Hopkins University and 

director of the breast cancer research program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine 

This event is supported by the Marjorie Cabot de Enriquez Fund. 

Thursday, November 30, 2006, 4:15 pm, Lecture Hall A, Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, 617-495-8600 


Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, directed by Susan Stern 

A documentary about the cult of the Barbie. 

Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 6 pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of 

Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647 


Modeling Speech Perception in Noise 

Abeer Alwan, University of California at Los Angeles, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 


Investigating Nature at the Smallest Distance Scales 

Meenakshi Narain, Boston University, current Radcliffe Institute fellow 

Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 3:30 pm, 34 Concord Avenue, second-floor Colloquium Room, 617-495-8212 


A Place of Rage, directed by Pratibha Parmar 

A documentary about African American activists. 

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 6 pm, Radcliffe College Room, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of 

Women in America, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, 617-495-8647 

Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in Arts and the Humanities 

Alma Guillermoprieto, current 

Radcliffe Institute fellow, journalist, and independent writer 

Tuesday, February 27, 2007, time and location to be determined 

All events are free and open to the public and, unless otherwise noted, occur in Cambridge, Mass. Schedule is subject to 

change without notice. For more information about these or other events and exhibitions, please call 617-495-8600 or 

check www.radcliffe.edu. 

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