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Today, the institute receives about 800 applications from around the world to fill 45 to 50 fellowship spots annually, according to Grosz.
Though the institute had a library, a research center, and a 40-year-old fellowship program, Radcliffe alumnae were confused by the merger agreement that had made their alma mater into just another unit of Harvard.
Though the institute promotes advanced study in a wide range of disciplines, its Web site states that it “sustains a special commitment to the study of women, gender, and society, and its research and programming include a substantial gender component.”
When Faust was appointed to lead the Radcliffe Institute, she also received tenure in Harvard’s History Department.
“Radcliffe is not one department,” says Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn. “She knows people in just about every department on campus because they have had intersecting interests with her and...