Eight New Fellows Join Six Others at Radcliffe Public Policy Center

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December 02, 1999

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Eight new public policy fellows joined six returning scholars to make the 1999-00 fellowship program the largest in the history of the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC). The Center’s newest fellows will examine a broad range of topics including mentoring women of color, the impact of women in technology, and the effects of the 1944 GI Bill on both sexes.

As deputy editor of the Boston Globe’s editorial page, new fellow Renee Loth develops the newspaper’s policy positions on a range of foreign and domestic issues as well as overseeing op-ed submissions and letters to the editor. At RPPC she will research civil rights law as it applies to women.

The impact of women on the field of information technology is the focus of new fellow Jane E. Fountain’s research. Fountain is associate professor of public policy and director of Women in the Information Age Projects at the Kennedy School of Government.

New fellow Stacy Blake-Beard, assistant professor of education at the Graduate School of Education, will study the mentoring relationships of women and how they can help women make the transition from school to work. Blake-Beard also serves as co-chair for the Academy of Management Mentoring Committee.

As a new fellow, Hilde Bojer, an associate professor of economics at the University of Oslo, will work on a book analyzing the theories and methods of personal income distribution.

The first fellow to hold joint appointments at both RPPC and Radcliffe’s Murray Research Center, Janet Zollinger Giele is a professor of sociology at Brandeis University and serves on the faculty at Brandeis’ Heller Graduate School. She is also the founding director of the Heller School’s Family and Children’s Policy Center. As a new RPPC fellow, she will continue her research on how the schedule of major life events has changed for women since World War II.

As a new fellow, scientist Kathleen Dunn Janezic, associate professor of biology at Boston College, will focus on policy questions related to the recruitment of scientists, the evolution of science careers, and the funding priorities that influence how science work is conducted.

Julie Matthaei is professor of economics at Wellesley College and also chairs that department. As a new fellow at the Center, she will continue work on her third book, which examines feminist economic transformation in the United States.

New Fellow Ann Robbart is working on her doctorate in public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She was a founding partner of the Progressive Fundraising Group, a consulting service for nonprofit and social-change organizations. As a fellow, she will investigate the politics of the 1944 GI Bill and its differential effect on men and women.

Returning fellow Lisa Dodson will celebrate her fifth year at RPPC. Her book, Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America, was published by Beacon Press last year.

Returning for her second year, Silvia Dorado is completing her doctorate in policy at McGill University. She will continue her research on how effective bridging organizations are created in the field of microfinance.

Lawyer and writer Mona Harrington begins her third year with RPPC. Her book, Care and Equality: Inventing a New Family Politics, was published by Knopf in September. She is currently developing a public conversations project on the subject of women, equality, and care.

Returning fellow Wendy Kaminer is a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly, a National Public Radio commentator, and president of the National Coalition Against Censorship. Her latest book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety, was published in October by Pantheon Books.

Robert Kuttner, the founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and one of four contributing editors to Business Week’s "Economic Viewpoint," returns to the Center for his second year. Kuttner is completing Family Reunions: Parent-Child Relationships in Adulthood, a book begun by his late wife and former RPPC fellow Sharland Trotter.

Returning fellow Pamela Stone is associate professor and former chair of the sociology department at Hunter College, CUNY. At the Center, she will continue her study of women who have left prestigious careers to become stay-at-home mothers.

As part of their tenure, fellows present their research in the Center’s policy seminar series. Free and open to the public, the seminars take place at noon on Wednesdays at the Radcliffe Public Policy Center, 69 Brattle Street, Cambridge. For more information about upcoming seminars, visit the Center’s Website at http://www.radcliffe.edu/pubpol or call the Center at (617) 496-3478.