Radcliffe Research Partnerships

Radcliffe Research Partnerships is sponsored by Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Matches Harvard College students with Radcliffe fellows for research and mentorship.

for Researchers | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University Search for people, topics, events, etc. Photo by Kevin Grady/Harvard Radcliffe Institute Whether looking to work on individual projects or to collaborate with colleagues, researchers at all levels will find opportunities at Radcliffe. We offer yearlong and short-term residencies as well as financial support for research projects.

Each year, the Radcliffe Institute hosts leading scholars, scientists, artists, and practitioners from around the world in its renowned residential Fellowship Program.

Academic Ventures and Engagement brings together scholars from across the University and around the world to foster multidisciplinary collaborations that lead to new ideas, innovative research, and the advancement of knowledge; programs range from small, intensive workshops to large public conferences.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America offers a variety of research grants to support new scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality. Opportunities for Scholars, Artists, and Professionals Opportunities for Harvard Faculty and Radcliffe Fellows Opportunities for Researchers The Radcliffe fellowship helped my work progress in almost too many ways to count.

It is the most amazing opportunity I have been afforded in my career. It gave me the time for unimpeded thinking, creating, and exploring.

2017–2018 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Presidential Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Baruch College; president of Project CETI Many of the research problems I’ve worked on have come from other fields, so the idea of being part of a community of scholars in all kinds of disciplines—ranging from physics to history to art and music—is incredibly appealing, both on a personal level and as a way to expand my horizons beyond my current research directions.

2024–2025 Sally Starling Seaver Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of mathematics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Lauren K. Williams's Research The Radcliffe Institute forges links among different humanities fields, as well as among the humanities, other scholarly disciplines, and the wider world.

2006–2007 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey The temptation for everyone who writes in the wake of government service is to litigate some of the debates that went on. My being at Radcliffe, in an environment where people bring such wholly different perspectives, has helped pull me out of my government, bureaucratic navel-gazing.

It has helped me to look up rather than back and to try to write something that’s more enduring, more forward-looking. 2017–2018 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; former administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) This is one of the best-run institutions I’ve ever been associated with, even in a temporary fashion.

2017–2018 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecturer at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; professor of history at Georgetown University Michael Kazin's Faculty Profile The seminar was a dream come true. The connections made, the projects in progress, the learning that happened and continues to occur, the invitations for opportunities that have resulted—I have been astounded by the impact of that experience.

The work that Radcliffe does and helps to support is changing lives.

Workshop participant at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; attending psychologist and associate professor of psychology, Harvard Medical School More about Amy Szarkowski For Scholars, Artists, and Professionals Scholars and practitioners at the forefront of the arts, humanities, journalism, sciences, and social sciences apply to our competitive Fellowship Program to pursue bold ideas, artistic endeavors, and new research.

Applicants come from across Harvard University and around the world. Radcliffe fellows receive a stipend of up to $78,500 for one year. The Fellowship Experience Our conferences and symposia are public conversations on large topics in which academics, artists, practitioners, and the public challenge assumptions and grapple with different perspectives from across all disciplines.

View Past Conferences and Symposia For Harvard Faculty and Radcliffe Fellows Harvard Radcliffe Institute's Accelerator Workshop Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists to propel their original research programs or projects toward a specific outcome: a publication, a grant application, a course curriculum, an exhibition, a performance, or policy recommendations, to name only a few possibilities.

With an eye toward accelerating the spread of innovative ideas and knowledge into the academic or public realm, our workshop program brings participants together to further develop and refine their work as they prepare for its eventual dissemination.

Learn more about Accelerator Workshops Harvard Radcliffe Institute's Exploratory Seminar Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists for collaboration in an interdisciplinary exploration of early-stage ideas. Our program encourages intellectual risk taking as participants gather in an intensive seminar setting to explore new fields of research and inquiry.

Hundreds of Harvard faculty members and current and former Radcliffe fellows have benefited from this program, which challenges its participants to reimagine the boundaries of knowledge through multidisciplinary discussion. Learn more about Exploratory Seminars Scholars, artists, and practitioners from around the world have benefited from the Radcliffe Fellowship Program.

Conferences and Symposia since 2010 Large-scale, public events across the disciplines have taken place at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Personal papers and organizational records are available for research at our Schlesinger Library.

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium offers grants to encourage projects that draw on the resources of 18 major cultural agencies, including the Schlesinger Library.

Apply for a Consortium Fellowship Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grants The Schlesinger Library invites predoctoral scholars whose dissertation research requires use of the Library’s collections to apply for research support. Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis.

Applicants must have advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program in a relevant field and have an approved dissertation topic, and priority will be given to those whose projects require use of materials available only at the Schlesinger Library.

Apply for a Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant Schlesinger Library Research Support Grants The Schlesinger Library invites scholars and other serious researchers at any career stage beyond graduate school to apply for support for their work in our collections. Grants of up to $3,000 will be given on a competitive basis.

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