The Humanities at Princeton

01/26/2022

Welcome to all of the Humanities Council spring visitors - including distinguished journalists, humanities researchers, and a Long-Term Visiting Fellow - who will contribute to exciting humanities research, teaching, and scholarship at Princeton this semester!

The Humanities Council is pleased to welcome new visiting faculty and fellows this spring, who will contribute to exciting humanities research and scholarship at Princeton this semester. Robyn Wiegman joins the Council from Duke University, where she is a professor of literature. She will serve as a...

01/14/2022

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded grants to three Princeton faculty to support advanced research in the humanities.

Congratulations to Christina Lee, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Ekaterina Pravilova, the Rosengarten Chair of Modern and Contemporary History and professor of history, and Wendy Warren, associate professor of history! Read more about their projects:

A major international project to digitize a “lost archive” from an 18th-century convent in Manila and two faculty book projects have received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

01/10/2022

Do you have an “outside-the-box" idea for a new project or course in the humanities? Or an idea for a collaborative project that generates new humanities research or teaching in emerging or underrepresented fields?

TODAY (1/10) is the last day for faculty to submit proposals for Magic Grants for Innovation and Exploratory Grants in Collaborative Humanities.

The Humanities Council supports faculty and graduate projects related to humanistic inquiry. Magic Grants for Innovation The Magic Project provides innovation grants ranging from $5,000 to $75,000 to Princeton faculty. More » Team Teaching Grants Faculty summer stipends help develop new team-taught...

01/07/2022

While the Princeton University Art Museum is under construction, faculty – including Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University professors Carolina Mangone and Carolyn Yerkes, acting chair of the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, have found creative ways to engage with original works of art in their courses and beyond. Read more:

While the Princeton University Art Museum is under construction, faculty have found creative ways to engage with original works of art in their courses and beyond. In the Fall 2021 course “Renaissance Art and Architecture,” co-taught by Carolyn Yerkes (Art and Archaeology), acting chair of the C...

01/05/2022

Christy Wampole, associate professor of French and Italian and director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton (IHUM), has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for her most recent book “Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France.” Congratulations!

The Modern Language Association of America has awarded its 29th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Christy Wampole (French and Italian). Wampole, who serves as the director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton (IHUM), rece...

12/22/2021

Holiday Greetings from the Humanities Council. Best wishes for the New Year!

12/20/2021

Looking for something new to read? Check out these “Best of” 2021 lists, featuring books from Princeton University humanities faculty!

As 2021 comes to an end, new publications from Princeton faculty in the humanities have made several “best of” lists for the year. The Economist named “The Gun, the Ship and the Pen” by Linda Colley (History) among the Best Books of 2021. “On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience.....

12/18/2021

the courage to “just go and do it”

12/15/2021

Art on Hulfish is OPEN!

PHOTO-FOCUSED GALLERY: “Orlando,” an exhibit guest-curated by actor Tilda Swinton, pictured here, is the inaugural show at Art on Hulfish, a new exhibition space from the Princeton University Art Museum. (Photo by Sally Potter)

12/01/2021

What’s one thing you wish everybody knew? That’s the question host and producer Dexter L. Thomas Jr. asks in a new podcast from the Humanities Council. Episode one – “. . . about the black musical that disappeared forever, twice” – explores the lost history of “Shuffle Along.”

Listen now to “If Everybody Knew” wherever you get your podcasts:

What if everybody knew… about the 1921 all-Black Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and its lasting impact on contemporary musical theater? Shuffle Along was, in the words of Langston Hughes, the soundtrack that launched the Harlem Renaissance. Days after the show’s incredibly successful debut, a g...

09/22/2021

https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/15th-annual-humanities-colloquium/

Live stream: http://mediacentrallive.princeton.edu/

The Humanities Council's kick-off event features a wide-ranging conversation about central issues in our research, teaching, and intellectual life.

06/14/2021

In celebration of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses