CHRISTINA WARINNER SELECTED AS HARVARD RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE
2023-2024 FELLOW
Worldwide cohort brings an array of projects, from exploring the far reaches of space to saving climate-endangered frogs.
Christina Warinner, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, was named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful, and the vast: from reckoning with the challenges of climate change to creating digital models of iconic Italian violins to detecting distant galaxies.
A Radcliffe fellowship offers scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—as well as writers, journalists, and other distinguished professionals—a rare chance to pursue ambitious projects for a full year in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard. The 2023–2024 fellows represent only 3.3 percent of the many applications that Radcliffe received.
Christina Warinner is a biomolecular archaeologist whose work focuses on the use of metagenomics and proteomics to reconstruct past human diet, health, and the evolution of the human microbiome. At Radcliffe, she will explore the phenomenon of lactose intolerance, its history of scientific study, and its unexpected ethnographic and archaeological paradoxes. She holds the title of Sally Starling Seaver Associate Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Warinner is among a cadre of fellows who will spend the year at Harvard Radcliffe exploring a large variety of topics across disciplines.
“This year’s cohort promises, once again, to accomplish incredible things,” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “As ever, we have outstanding fellows with expertise in a wide range of fields. Many are grappling with some of the most urgent challenges facing humanity, including seven exemplary scholars working at the forefront of research into climate change and issues of climate justice.”
“I look forward to welcoming the new class of fellows,” said Claudia Rizzini, executive director of the Fellowship Program. “I look forward to fostering a community that transcends individual disciplines and is fueled by collective intellectual energy and creativity.”
A full list of incoming 2023–2024 Radcliffe fellows can be found here.
About Harvard Radcliffe Institute
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines. For more information, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.