The Junior Faculty Fellows were selected because they have already been participating regularly in the Center’s activities and initiatives, and because of the intersection between the Center’s mission and their teaching and research interests . As Junior Faculty Fellows, they will receive annual research support from UCHV, as well as support to organize workshops or conferences that would be helpful for their scholarship.

“Catherine, Lidal, and Temi have established themselves as enthusiastic participants in Center programs and events, and this fellowship is a way of recognizing their participation,” said Alan Patten, the director of UCHV and the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Politics. “More generally, the Junior Faculty Fellow category offers a new way for assistant professors at Princeton to engage with the Center, and is an opportunity for the Center to broaden the range of questions and issues that we engage with.”

More information about the Junior Faculty Fellows is below. 

Catherine Clune-Taylor (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, and is the first tenure-track hire, as well as the first person of color to be appointed in GSS in the history of the Program. She is a critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectionally feminist science and technology studies scholar with formal training in both philosophy and in the biomedical sciences. Specifically, in addition to a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Alberta, Clune-Taylor also holds a bachelor of medical science in immunology and microbiology, a bachelor of arts in philosophy and a master of arts in philosophy, all from the University of Western Ontario. 

Lidal Dror works at the intersection of Social & Political Philosophy, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Race. His research explores the epistemic effects of oppression (especially on the oppressed), and the normative implications of those effects. Broadly speaking his current work focuses on standpoint epistemology, ideology & false consciousness, and imperialism. Before coming to Princeton, Lidal received his PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University, and his BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, from the University of Warwick.

Temi Ogunye has broad interests in contemporary political philosophy. His current research is focused on the political philosophy of activism – that is, the means by which people intervene in society to shape it for the better. Before joining Princeton, Professor Ogunye was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has a BA in Philosophy and Politics from the University of Manchester, an MA in Legal and Political Theory from University College London, and PhD in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Temi also spent a few years working in politics, policy, and NGOs.