Townsend Fellows

The Townsend Fellows group is the longest-running of all the Center’s programs. The program supports the research of assistant professors and graduate students at the dissertation stage. Throughout the year, the fellows meet for regular discussions together with several tenured faculty, an Emeritus Fellow, a Librarian Fellow, a Museum Fellow, and three Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows. These discussions offer the fellows interdisciplinary peer review of their works in progress in an informal mentoring setting. The Fellows program receives core funding from the Townsend Endowment. The Center also has endowments for graduate student support contributed by Jeffrey Berg and by Irving and Jean Stone.

The Townsend Center Fellows 2009-2010

Amos Bitzan, Graduate Student, History
James Davies, Assistant Professor, Music
Karen Feldman, Assistant Professor, German
Sherry Goodman, Museum Fellow, Berkeley Art Museum
Lily Gurton-Wachter, Graduate Student, Comparative Literature
Harrison Huang, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages & Culture
Blake Johnson, Graduate Student, History
Benjamin Morgan, Graduate Student, Rhetoric
James Spohrer, Library Fellow, Doe Memorial Library, Germanic Collections
Emily Thornbury, Assistant Professor, English

Senior Fellows:

Joel Altman, Emeritus, English
Catherine Cole, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Dorothea Frede, Philosophy
David Frick, Slavic Languages and Literature
Dorothy Hale, English
Abdul JanMohamed, English
Andrew Stewart, Classics/Art History & Mediterranean Archaeology