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Radcliffe’s unwavering commitment to women and the study of gender endures in the Institute’s programs and the world-class collections of its Schlesinger Library.</p> </div> <div class="m-sidebar m-sidebar__section m-sidebar--top" data-behavior="share"> <span class="m-sidebar__label" aria-hidden="true">Share</span> <a href="#" data-social-sharing-facebook><span class="sr-only">Share this page on </span>Facebook</a> <a href="#" data-social-sharing-twitter><span class="sr-only">Share this page on </span>Twitter</a> <a href="#" data-social-sharing-linkedin><span class="sr-only">Share this page on </span>LinkedIn</a> <a href="#" data-behavior="copyLink">Copy Link</a> </div> <div class="m-block m-block--text" > <p>A dedication to women and gender has informed Radcliffe’s work since its inception. The Institute’s mission was set forth in the merger agreement that established the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a school within Harvard University, and read, in part, “In recognition of Radcliffe’s historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute will sustain a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.”</p><p>The Institute remains a vital center for the study of women and gender at Harvard. Explore several strands of our work below:</p><ol><li><a href="#archival-resources" rel="noopener noreferrer">Archival Resources</a></li><li><a href="#research-support" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research Support</a></li><li><a href="#public-programming" rel="noopener noreferrer">Public Programming</a></li></ol> </div> <div class="m-block m-block--text" > <h2><span id="archival-resources" class="ql-anchor">Archival Resources</span></h2><p>The vast holdings of Radcliffe’s <a href="/schlesinger-library" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America</a> are accessible to all interested researchers. One of the special collections libraries within the Harvard Library—the oldest library system in the United States—the Schlesinger is considered the leading center for scholarship on the history of women in the United States, with collections that span civil rights and feminism, health and sexuality, work and family life, education and the professions, and culinary history and etiquette.</p><p>Among our digitized collections are the papers of the women’s rights activist and suffragist <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/susan-b-anthony" rel="noopener noreferrer">Susan B. Anthony</a> (1820–1906); the writer and influential public figure <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/charlotte-perkins-gilman" rel="noopener noreferrer">Charlotte Perkins Gilman</a> (1860–1935), who worked to combat women’s inequality inside and outside the home; the suffragist, women’s rights activist, and author of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/alice-paul" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alice Paul</a> (1885–1977); and <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/dorothy-west" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dorothy West</a> (1907–1998), a writer and journalist associated with the Harlem Renaissance.</p><h3>Other notable collections include:</h3><ul><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/amelia-earhart" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amelia Earhart</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/mildred-jefferson" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mildred Jefferson</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/helen-keller" rel="noopener noreferrer">Helen Keller</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/florynce-kennedy" rel="noopener noreferrer">Florynce (Flo) Kennedy</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/gerda-lerner" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gerda Lerner</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/pauli-murray" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pauli Murray</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/maud-wood-park-papers-in-the-woman-s-rights-collection" rel="noopener noreferrer">Maude Wood Park</a></li><li><a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/adrienne-rich" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adrienne Rich</a></li></ul><p>The Schlesinger also holds organizational archives like <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/records-of-the-national-organization-for-women" rel="noopener noreferrer">Records of the National Organization for Women (NOW)</a> and the <a href="/schlesinger-library/collections/boston-womens-health-book-collective-records" rel="noopener noreferrer">Boston Women’s Health Book Collective Records</a> <em>(Our Bodies, Ourselves).</em></p> </div> <div class="m-block m-block--text" > <h2><span id="research-support" class="ql-anchor">Research Support</span></h2><p>Harvard Radcliffe Institute invests in the work of leading scholars, public intellectuals, and artists focused on women, gender, and society through its Fellowship Program. Radcliffe also sponsors private multidisciplinary <a href="/opportunities-for-researchers#harvard-faculty-radcliffe-fellows" rel="noopener noreferrer">seminars led by Harvard- and Radcliffe-affiliated scholars</a> to launch and advance important research agendas. Each seminar convenes 10–15 scholars and practitioners from around the world to pursue their work in a collaborative setting.</p><h3>Awarded fellowships include:</h3><ul><li><a href="/people/judith-coffin" rel="noopener noreferrer">Judith Coffin</a>, University of Texas, Austin <em>Reading Beauvoir: The Second Sex in the Postwar World</em></li><li><a href="/people/corinne-t-field" rel="noopener noreferrer">Corinne T. Field</a>, University of Virginia <em>Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Generational and Racial Conflict in the US Women's Rights Movement, 1870–1920</em></li><li><a href="/people/liette-gidlow" rel="noopener noreferrer">Liette Gidlow</a>, Wayne State University <em>The 19th Amendment and the Politics of Race, 1920–1970</em></li><li><a href="/people/ruth-b-grossman" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ruth B. Grossman</a>,<em> </em>Emerson College, <em>Intersectionality of Gender and Autism</em></li><li><a href="/people/hauwa-ibrahim" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hauwa Ibrahim</a>, Aries Law Firm (Nigeria) <em>Women, Justice, and Sharia Law</em></li><li><a href="/people/linda-k-kerber" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linda K. Kerber</a>, University of Iowa <em>Through Women's Eyes: An Alternative American History</em></li><li><a href="/people/ruth-milkman" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ruth Milkman</a>, City University of New York <em>Gender and Labor in the Economic Crisis: Comparing the Great Depression and the Great Recession</em></li><li><a href="/people/durba-mitra" rel="noopener noreferrer">Durba Mitra</a>, Harvard University <em>Sexuality and the New Science of Society</em></li><li><a href="/people/jennifer-c-nash" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jennifer C. Nash</a>, Northwestern University Black Maternal Politics</li><li><a href="/people/katharine-park" rel="noopener noreferrer">Katharine Park</a>, Harvard University <em>Visible Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection</em></li><li><a href="/people/sarah-s-richardson" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sarah S. Richardson</a>, Harvard University <em>The Maternal Mystique: Situating the Science of Maternal Effects, 1900–Present</em></li><li><a href="/people/robert-o-self" rel="noopener noreferrer">Robert O. Self</a>, Brown University <em>The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in America from Watts to Reagan</em></li><li><a href="/people/manisha-sinha" rel="noopener noreferrer">Manisha Sinha</a>, University of Connecticut <em>The Reconstruction of American Democracy, 1860–1920</em></li><li><a href="/people/marjorie-j-spruill" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marjorie J. Spruill</a>, University of South Carolina <em>Women's Rights and Family Values: Gender and America's Right Turn</em></li><li><a href="/people/christine-stansell" rel="noopener noreferrer">Christine Stansell</a>, Princeton University <em>A Political History of American Feminism, 1792–2002</em></li><li><a href="/people/katherine-turk" rel="noopener noreferrer">Katherine Turk</a>, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <em>Claiming NOW: A History of the National Organization for Women</em></li></ul><h3>Select research seminars in include:</h3><ul><li>Gender, Socialism, and Postsocialism: Transatlantic Dialogues </li><li>Sexual Trafficking and Exploitation of Adolescents in the United States: Conceptual Framework and Policy Strategies</li><li>Writing Lesbianism into History and Representation</li><li>Closing the Pain Divide </li><li>Gender, Civil Society, and the State in Contemporary South Asia: Adolescent Education </li><li>Women’s Participation in Violent Political Organizations </li><li>New Frontiers in Women Writing from Saudi Arabia </li><li>Gender, Precarious Work, and Labor Organizing </li><li>States of Intimacy: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern US History</li><li>Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Legal Pluralism in the United States, Mexico, and Guatemala</li><li>Centuries of Struggle: Women, the Vote, and American Citizenship</li><li>Women and the History of International Thought</li><li>Women, Heart, and Brain Global Initiative Stakeholders Meeting</li><li>Two Socialist Feminisms in Conversation: Soviet Bloc Women’s Organizations and US Socialist Feminism</li><li>Listening to Survivors: Building Mental Health Services for Women Affected by Commercial Sexual Exploitation through Psychology and Survivor Professional Collaborations</li><li>The Wisdom in Teeth: Exploring the Use of Teeth as Fossil Records of Early Stress Exposure and Future Neuropsychiatric Risk</li><li>Out of Bounds: Bodies, Abortion, Babies, and Mass Graves</li></ul><p>In addition, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute <a href="/opportunities-for-students" rel="noopener noreferrer">awards grants to undergraduate and graduate students at Harvard</a> who are pursuing research, service, and creative projects in fields related to women and gender.</p> </div> <div class="m-block m-block--text" > <h2><span id="public-programming" class="ql-anchor">Public Programming</span></h2><p>Harvard Radcliffe Institute reaches national and international audiences through its public programming. Radcliffe supports vital conversations—from small group gatherings to major public conferences—that create productive dialogue around difficult and complex issues, advancing discourse on topics related to women, gender, and society. This includes our flagship annual gender conference, along with many other public programs throughout the year.</p><h3>Select programs include:</h3><ul><li><a href="/event/2024-gender-and-politics-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gender and Politics: Navigating Power and Perception</a> (2024)</li><li><a href="/event/2023-minding-the-gap-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Minding the Gap: Gender and the Mental Health Crisis</a> (2023)</li><li><a href="/event/2023-the-age-of-roe-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America</a> (2023)</li><li><a href="/event/2022-to-laugh-is-human-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">To Laugh Is Human: Gender and Comedy</a> (2022)</li><li><a href="/event/2021-stories-we-tell-objects-we-keep-conference-virtual" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives </a>(2021)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2021-nevertheless-she-persisted-virtual" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nevertheless, She Persisted</a> (2021)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-beyond-words-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beyond Words: Gender and the Aesthetics of Communication</a> (2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2019-communication-can-be-a-drag-performance" rel="noopener noreferrer">Communication Can Be a … Drag</a> (2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2018-ofeibea-quist-arcton-lecture" rel="noopener noreferrer">(Why) Reporting the Voices of African Women and Girls Matters</a> (2018)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2018-who-belongs-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who Belongs? Global Citizenship and Gender in the 21st Century</a> (2018)<br class="softbreak"><br class="softbreak"></li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2017-dava-sobel-lecture" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Woman’s Place at the Harvard Observatory</a> (2017)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2017-game-changers-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Game Changers: Sports, Gender, and Society</a> (2017)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-ways-with-words-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ways with Words: Exploring Language and Gender </a>(2016)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-hits-and-misses-panel-discussion" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hits and Misses: Sports Marketing, Gender, and Society</a> (2016)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2015-women-in-biotech-symposium" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women in Biotech</a> (2015)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-huda-zurayk-lecture" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Tomorrow? A Day in the Life of an Arab Woman </a>(2014)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-who-decides-conference" rel="noopener noreferrer">Who Decides? Gender, Medicine, and the Public Health</a> (2014)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2013-fifty-years-after-feminine-mystique" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fifty Years after <em>The Feminine Mystique</em> </a>(2013)</li><li>I<a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012horowitz" rel="noopener noreferrer">t’s Complicated: 375 Years of Women at Harvard</a> (2012)</li><li><a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2012-women-making-democracy" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women Making Democracy</a> (2012)</li></ul><p><br class="softbreak"></p> </div> <div class="m-block"> <div class="a-share a-share--post" data-behavior="share"> <div aria-hidden="true">Share<span class="a-share__colon">:</span></div> <div><button data-social-sharing-facebook><span class="sr-only">Share this page on </span>Facebook</button></div> <div><button data-social-sharing-twitter><span class="sr-only">Share this page on </span>Twitter</button></div> <div><button 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