Posted on behalf of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin seeks a Research Assistant (RA) to support an upcoming book research project pertaining to legacies of slavery and segregation. Project requires both legal and historical research.
Start Date: Immediately
Duration: March 2026 through August 31, 2026
Hours: 5 to 10 hours per week
Number of Positions: 1
You are right for this position if you are:
A law/graduate student with strong writing and research skills, including facility with research on AI platforms. This work can be done remotely, and references are required.
To apply:
Please email your resume to Laura Gerhard at laura_gerhard@radcliffe.harvard.edu as soon as possible.
About Dean Brown Nagin:
Tomiko Brown-Nagin is Dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions. She is also the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished scholar in the fields of law and history. Since becoming Dean in 2018, she has overseen significant initiatives to expand faculty recruitment, student engagement, and fellowship opportunities. An award-winning scholar, she is the author of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality and Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. Dean Brown-Nagin has also led important University efforts, including the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery and the Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Working Group. Dean Brown-Nagin’s full bio is available here.
About the Harvard Radcliffe Institute:
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration, bringing students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.
The Institute’s work is shaped by its history as the former Radcliffe College—a school founded to ensure that the standard of education embodied in Harvard was accessible to women, who were then excluded from the University. Radcliffe’s defining commitment to women and the study of gender endures in the Institute’s programs and the world-class collections of its Schlesinger Library. But the legacy of Radcliffe College is not simply coeducation at Harvard; it is the recognition that universities will always be greater when they draw wisdom and talent from the widest possible pool. This principle has guided the Institute’s work for nearly a century and a half. Among the many distinguished schools of Harvard, the Institute is unique: interdisciplinary by design and animated by a legacy of promoting inclusion.