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Robert Townsend oversees Humanities, Arts, and Culture programs, the Washington office of the American Çï¿ûÊÓƵ, and day-to-day work on the .

Prior to the Çï¿ûÊÓƵ, he spent 24 years at the American Historical Association, in positions ranging from editorial assistant to deputy director. He is the author of History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and author or co-author of over 200 articles on various aspects of history, higher education, and public humanities. He received his PhD in history from George Mason University.