Arthur Ou, Professor of Photography, and Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, Awarded Radcliffe Fellowships

August 14, 2025

Arthur Ou, Professor of Photography, and Darrick Hamilton, Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, Awarded Radcliffe Fellowships

Every 12 months, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University accepts 50 scientists, writers, students, public intellectuals, artists, and extra, into their Fellowship program, the place they construct on current work, create relationships with the opposite Fellows, and develop new concepts.

This 12 months, Arthur Ou, Professor of Photography at Parsons, and Darrick Hamilton, University Professor, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and Founding Director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School, have been chosen as Fellows.

“After 25 years of teaching, I am very excited to have this one-year opportunity to focus solely on my work,” shares Ou. “I look forward to being amongst the interdisciplinary cohort at Radcliffe which will challenge me to think broadly and expansively and open up my practice in new ways.”

“The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship is a tremendous honor—prestigious with a long history of remarkable projects emerging from it,” shares Hamilton. “The ability to spend an academic year with thinkers from across the academy and beyond, simply focusing on a project that could improve the human condition, is a privilege. I’m grateful to The New School for giving me the time to do it, and to the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for this great opportunity to develop a major project.”

During Ou’s time at Harvard, he plans to have interaction with assets together with the Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection on the college’s Observatory, in addition to discover the Center for Astrophysics and the Perception space inside the Psychology division as a way to speed up his analysis and image-making as he works on a guide in regards to the pure historical past of images.

“I am particularly excited about the potential to incorporate what I will learn and discover at Radcliffe into the classroom and to bring a dynamic range of new perspectives and networks back to our university,” says Ou.

Hamilton plans to develop additional perception and analysis into his imaginative and prescient of what a greater economic system would appear like if individuals and the environments they dwell in are centered, and work on a guide about that concept.