Townsend Named Department Alumnus of the Year

Townsend Named Department Alumnus of the Year

The Department of History and Art History has named Robert Townsend (PhD 2009) as its Alumnus of the Year.

Townsend is director of the Washington office at American Academy of Arts and Sciences and oversees its Humanities Indicators project. He is the author of History's Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization and the Historical Enterprise, 1880–1940 (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and over 200 articles on various aspects of history, higher education, and electronic publishing in publications ranging from Perspectives on History and AHA Today to the Chronicle Review and A Different Kind of Web (Society of American Archivists, 2011).