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.

2022-2023

Verónica Gómez Sánchez, UC Berkeley

Gabriel Shapiro

Pablo Zendejas Medina

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang, UC Berkeley

 

2021-2022

Rosalind Chaplin, UNC Chapel Hill

Sophia Dandelet, University of Cambridge

Verónica Gómez Sánchez (see above) 

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang (see above)

 

2020-2021

David Builles, Princeton University

Matthias Michel, New York University

Jacob McNulty, University College London

Allison Aitken, Columbia University

 

2019-20

Jacob McNulty (see above)

Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College

Zoe Johnson King, Harvard University

 

2018-19

Zoe Johnson King (see above)

Ginger Schultheis, University of Chicago

Antonia Peacocke, Stanford University

 

2017-18

Julia Borcherding, University of Cambridge

Jessie Munton, University of Cambridge

Thomas Barrett, UC Santa Barbara

Tuomo Tiisala, University of Helsinki

 

2016-17

Edwin Green, MIT

Una Stojnic, Princeton University

Tuomo Tiisala (see above)

Miriam Schoenfield, University of Texas at Austin

 

2015-16

Miriam Schoenfield (see above)

Brian Cutter, Notre Dame

Nicolas Bommarito, Simon Fraser University

Harvey Lederman, University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Worsnip, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

2014-15

Nicolas Bommarito (see above)

Dmitri Gallow, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy, ACU

Harvey Lederman (see above)

Lisa Titus, University of Denver

Kristin Primus, UC Berkeley

 

2013-14

Barry Maguire, The University of Edinburgh

Kristin Primus (see above)

Carla Merino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lisa Titus (see above)

Carlotta Pavese, Cornell University

 

2012-13

Daniel Greco, Yale University

Helen Yetter Chappell, University of Miami

 

2011-12

Ralf Bader, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Katrina Elliott, Brandeis University

William Starr, Cornell University

James Stazicker, King’s College London

 

2010-11

William Starr (see above)

Ralf Bader (see above)

Elliot Paul, Queen’s University, Kingston

 

2009-10

Imogen Dickie, University of Toronto

Farid Masrour, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Elliot Paul (see above)

 

2008-09

Imogen Dickie (see above)

Farid Masrour (see above)

Seth Yalcin, UC Berkeley

Laura Franklin-Hall, New York University

 

2007-08

Jacob Rosen, Harvard University

Seth Yalcin (see above)

 

2006-07

Alexander Julius, UCLA

Jacob Rosen (see above)

Timothy Rosenkoetter, Dartmouth College

Christopher Meacham, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

2005-06

Jill North, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Nico Silins, Cornell University

 

2004-05

Jill North (see above)

Nico Silins (see above)