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 2011-2012

Erin Beeghly, Dissertation Fellow, Philosophy
Jasper Bernes, Dissertation Fellow, English
Stephen Best, Associate Professor, English
Lara Buchak, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Greg Castillo, Associate Professor, Architecture
Natalie Cleaver, Dissertation Fellow, Comparative Literature
Sean Curran, Dissertation Fellow, Music
Pedro Di Pietro, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Ethnic Studies
Loren Goldman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rhetoric
Jake Kosek, Assistant Professor, Geography
Steven Lee, Assistant Professor, English
Su Lin Lewis, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, South and Southeast Asian Studies
Deirdre Loughridge, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Music
Ramona Martinez, Library Fellow, Law Library
Scott Millspaugh, Dissertation Fellow, Italian Studies
Tom Recht, Dissertation Fellow, Linguistics
David Carroll Simon, Dissertation Fellow, Comparative Literature

Senior Fellows:

Michael Dear, Professor, City & Regional Planning
Leslie Kurke, Professor, Classics and Comparative Literature
Michael Lucey, Professor, French
Mark Sandberg, Professor, Scandinavian
Jonathan Simon, Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, School of Law