Haverkamp named Radcliffe fellow

Haverkamp named Radcliffe fellow

Eva Haverkamp, the Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of History, was recently named a 2005 Radcliffe Institute fellow at Harvard University. She was among the 51 women and men selected from a pool of 782 applicants.

Eva Haverkamp

Radcliffe Institute fellowships, which run from September to June, are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. Fellows will live in the Boston area as they pursue their projects, chosen by the selection committee for their quality and long-term impact.

Haverkamp’s project, “Christians and Jews at the Time of the First Crusade: Contours of Interactions,” continues her research of the Jewish and Christian historical experience in medieval Northern Europe. The 2005 class of fellows also includes projects by physicists, linguists, filmmakers, economists, biologists, authors, artists and musicians.

“The purpose of a residential fellowship like ours is to bring artists and scholars together to interact in ways that will change both them and their work,” said Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute. “We strive to offer enough similarity — clusters of common intellectual concern — and enough difference to generate intersections that are predictable as well as ones that are unanticipated and even surprising.”

The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program was founded in 1960. The institute has named more than 1,300 fellows in disciplines ranging from the natural sciences to the arts. Haverkamp is only the second Rice faculty member invited to be a Radcliffe fellow.