Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards residential fellowships to exceptional scientists, scholars, and artists making a difference in their fields and the world. While immersed in individual or group projects, fellows convene to challenge and support each other’s ideas.
2024-25 Honorees
Elizabeth Otto
Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Professor of art history in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and director of UB’s Humanities Institute, Elizabeth Otto, PhD, is internationally recognized for her scholarship in modern and contemporary art and visual culture and the intersections of gender, history, politics and theory. In particular, she is renowned for her scholarship on Bauhaus, the influential German art and design school. Her most recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Catherine A. and Mary C. Gellert Fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Senior Fellowship from the Dedalus Foundation to support completion of her forthcoming book on the Bauhaus art movement in the context of German National Socialism. In addition, for the 2024 exhibition “Bauhaus Under National Socialism” in Weimar, Germany, Otto and her co-curators recently received the Justus Bier Prize.