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Doogab Yi SELECTED AS 2019–2020 RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE FELLOW
Cambridge, Mass.— Doogab Yi has been named a 2019–2020 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining more than 50 women and men in the incoming fellowship class as they pursue work across the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. As the 2019–2020 Radcliffe-Harvard Yenching Institute Joint Fellow, Yi will pursue an individual project in a community dedicated to exploration and inquiry at Harvard’s institute for advanced study.
“This is a remarkable class of fellows,” said Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin RI ’17, the Daniel P. S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “Radcliffe’s Fellowship Program—a microcosm of the Institute—is a laboratory of ideas where scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners draw insights from one another and generate new knowledge that spans disciplinary boundaries. I am extraordinarily excited to see what emerges from this incredible group of individuals in the year ahead.”
While in residence, fellows at the Radcliffe Institute present lectures and exhibitions to the public, participate in cross-disciplinary study groups, and work closely with undergraduate Harvard students who serve as research partners.
Yi is a professor of history of science and STS at the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Seoul National University, South Korea. At the Radcliffe Institute, he will embark on a research project that will examine the contemporary history of biomedical and pharmacological technologies for manipulating and improving human beings in an age of global capitalism. In many ways this project is an attempt to ask how capitalism not just remake our material world, but also remake our identity.
“I am very excited to be a Radcliffe fellow next year, and I am very grateful for this wonderful opportunity to pursue an interdisciplinary and comparative project. I look forward to learning from other incredible fellows across disciplines at the Radcliffe Institute. I feel gratitude to the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Seoul National University for their support.”
The Radcliffe Institute has awarded more than 900 fellowships since its founding in 1999.
The full list of fellows is online here.
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About the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a unique space within Harvard—a school dedicated to creating and sharing transformative ideas across all disciplines. Each year, the Institute hosts about 50 leading scholars, scientists, and artists from around the world in its renowned residential fellowship program. Radcliffe fosters innovative research collaborations and offers hundreds of public lectures, exhibitions, performances, conferences, and other events annually. The Institute is home to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library,the nation’s foremost archive on the history of women, gender, and sexuality. For more information about the people and programs of the Radcliffe Institute, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu.
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