Faculty Fellows
2023-2024 Brady Faculty Fellows
The Brady Faculty Fellows are part of a team of Northwestern faculty and graduate students who work closely with Brady undergraduates. The Fellows participate in the intellectual and social life of the Brady Program, and devote time to the development of a new undergraduate course, or the revision of an already existing course, whose content is related to the goals and values of the Brady Scholars Program. These include the exploration of ethical and political issues, community service, domestic and international citizenship.
The Brady Faculty Fellows for 2023-2024 are Libby Southgate and Rowan Mellor.
Libby Southgate works (mostly) in ethics. She is particularly interested in the phenomenon of intractable moral disagreement, both as a datum to be explained in metaethics and as a challenge to be negotiated in applied ethics. She also does work in philosophy of education, particularly on issues in inclusive pedagogy. Libby is currently finishing up a PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University. She is from Scotland and before Cornell, she earned an M.Sc. and an undergraduate M.A.(Hons) in philosophy from the University of Glasgow. Libby can be reached at southgate@northwestern.edu.
Rowan Mellor completed his PhD at University College London in 2021. From 2021-2023, he was a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Rowan’s main research interests are in ethics and political philosophy. His current project focusses on the idea of joint obligation. Specifically, he thinks that it can be true that we jointly ought to do something, even if each of us ought not to do our part. Rowan can be reached at rowan.mellor@northwestern.edu.