Faculty Fellows
2025-2026 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 2025-2026 are Rowan Mellor and Yvonne Tam .
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.
Yvonne Tam finished her PhD at University of California Riverside in 2025 and works in moral theory and its history, with a focus on Kant’s practical philosophy. She is currently working on a moral conception of radical self-love and articulating its deep ties to friendship, solidarity, and moral agency.