Bersoff Faculty Fellows

The Edward H. Bersoff Postdoctoral Fellowships in Philosophy are awarded to postdoctoral scholars who demonstrate the highest level of academic merit and promise in the field.

The fellowships are named in honor of Edward Bersoff, who established an endowment supporting the program. Ed grew up in Greenwich Village, graduated early from Stuyvesant High School, and at the age of 15 enrolled in NYU, where he earned three degrees, including a Ph.D. in Mathematics. In establishing the fellowships, Ed was impressed by how distinguished NYU's Department of Philosophy had become. He was convinced that a set of prestigious post-docs would be beneficial for both the department and young philosophers getting a start in the field, thus serving the purposes that post-docs have long held in his own field of mathematics.  

Current Bersoff Faculty Fellows can be found here.

A list of previous Fellows with the year(s) they were in residence, as well as their current affiliations, is below.

2021-2022

Rosalind Chaplin, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Sophia Dandelet, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge

Veronica Gomez Sanchez, (starting Fall 2023) Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Snow Zhang, (starting Fall 2023) Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

 

2020-2021

David Builles, Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Matthias Michel, Postdoctoral Researcher, NYU

Jacob McNulty, Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellowship), Dartmouth College

Allison Aitken, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

 

2019-20

Jacob McNulty (see above)

Gabbrielle Johnson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Zoe Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

 

2018-19

Zoe Johnson King (see above)

Ginger Schultheis, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Antonia Peacocke, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

 

2017-18

Julia Borcherding, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Jessie Munton, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Thomas Barrett, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Santa Barbara

Tuomo Tiisala, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Helsinki

 

2016-17

Edwin Green, Associate Professor, MIT

Una Stojnic, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Tuomo Tiisala (see above)

Miriam Schoenfield, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

 

2015-16

Miriam Schoenfield (see above)

Brian Cutter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame

Nicolas Bommarito, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University

Harvey Lederman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University

Alexander Worsnip, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

2014-15

Nicolas Bommarito (see above)

Dmitri Gallow, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University

Harvey Lederman (see above)

Lisa Mirrachi, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

Kristin Primus, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley

 

2013-14

Barry Maguire, Senior Lecturer, The University of Edinburgh

Kristin Primus (see above)

Carla Merino, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lisa Mirrachi (see above)

Carlotta Pavese, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University

 

2012-13

Daniel Greco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Helen Yetter Chappell, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami

 

2011-12

Ralf Bader, Professor of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Katrina Elliott, Assistant Professor, UCLA

William Starr, Associate Professor, Cornell University

James Stazicker, Lecturer in Philosophy, King’s College London

 

2010-11

William Starr (see above)

Ralf Bader (see above)

Elliot Paul, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Kingston

 

2009-10

Imogen Dickie, Professor, University of Toronto

Farid Masrour, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Elliot Paul (see above)

 

2008-09

Imogen Dickie (see above)

Farid Masrour (see above)

Seth Yalcin, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley

Laura Franklin-Hall, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New York University

 

2007-08

Jacob Rosen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Seth Yalcin (see above)

 

2006-07

Alexander Julius, Associate Professor, UCLA

Jacob Rosen (see above)

Timothy Rosenkoetter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

Christopher Meachman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

2005-06

Jill North, Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Nico Silins, Associate Professor, Cornell University

 

2004-05

Jill North (see above)

Nico Silins (see above)