Search begins for new dean of Radcliffe Institute
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Since its founding just over a decade ago, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has become an integral part of Harvard and of the larger community of scholars. It has emerged as a widely recognized leader in fostering lively intellectual inquiry across the disciplines, the professions, and the creative arts, while sustaining a commitment to the study of women, gender, and society as a dimension of its wider mission. As many of you know, this past June Barbara Grosz concluded a decade of devoted leadership first as Radcliffe’s dean of science and then as its dean. On July 1, Lizabeth Cohen took up the role of interim dean. I write now to invite your advice on the search for a new dean of the Radcliffe Institute. I would welcome your thoughts on the institute’s major opportunities and challenges in the years ahead, as a broad-based center of scholarly enterprise...