Harvard University
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
http://www.radcliffe.edu
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Contact Information:
10 Garden Street
Fay House
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-8601
Fax: 617-496-4640
E-mail: info@radcliffe.edu
CENTER DESCRIPTION
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, created as one of ten Harvard schools in 1999, is an interdisciplinary center where leading scholars can promote learning across a broad range of academic and professional fields. The Institute is particularly committed to the study of women, gender, and society, and is home to the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program, the Schlesinger Library, and the Henry A. Murray Research Center.
AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE
Aging; cultural, ethnic, and racial diversity; corporations and women; economic development; economic literacy; economic and social status of women; employment; entrepreneurship and small business development; equity issues; feminist thought and scholarship; girls and adolescents; global issues; grants and scholarships; health and health care; human rights; leadership and leadership development; politics; poverty; science and technology; sexuality; welfare reform; women’s studies; work and family.
RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program. Radcliffe Institute Fellowships are meant to support scholars of exceptional promise demonstrated by past academic and professional accomplishment. The Fellowship Program brings scholars from all over the world, nurturing individual study and fostering intellectual connections among them. Fellows are provided with private working space and university resources, along with the opportunity to learn and interact with fellow women scholars, writers, artists, and activists. Fellows present their works-in-progress at weekly public colloquia and continue their exchange at weekly lunches and gatherings.
The Schlesinger Library. A repository of 80,000 volumes and 13,000 linear feet of manuscripts, Schlesinger is the preeminent library documenting the history of women in America. Its holdings include letters, diaries, and personal papers of women and families. The library also houses records of women’s organizations, books about women, culinary history, women’s periodicals, photographs, videotapes, and oral histories. Prominent collections include the papers of Amelia Earhart, Betty Friedan, and others. The library also administers research grants and sponsors exhibitions and other public programs.
Henry A. Murray Research Center. A singularly valuable archive of longitudinal social science data, the Center serves as a resource for research on the changing lives of American women. The Center’s primary purpose is to promote the use of existing social science data to further explore human development and change. A national archive of more than 270 studies is available to researchers from all levels and disciplines, free of charge. The center also sponsors conferences and workshops on methodological and substantive issues.
PUBLICATIONS
A Sampling of Innocent Documents. 1999. A collection of essays by Schlesinger Library staff honoring Eva S. Mosley, curator of manuscripts.
"Gender Equality, the Welfare State, and Family Decline in Modern Society." By Annemette Sorenson, Director of the Murray Research Center. In Comparative Social Research.
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