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.
2023-24 Honorees
Holly J. Buck
Department of Environment and Sustainability
Holly Buck, PhD, is an associate professor of environment and sustainability. Buck is an expert on the social and political dimensions of environmental policies, and of strategies and technologies for preventing and adapting to climate change. She is interested in how communities can adapt to climate change and how the public and environmental groups engage with emerging technologies. She has published extensively on the politics of carbon removal, and she served in a prestigious assignment with the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management as a management and program analyst. In 2024, Buck received a fellowship from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to support her current project on how rural communities have tried to manifest new future-oriented industries.