Books by our faculty have been included on several "Best Books of the Year" lists in various publications.
This fall, professors Katerina Stergiopoulou and Jack Tannous launched a new class, “Hellenism: The First 3,000 Years,” the first required course for the new minor in Hellenic Studies.
Ekaterina Pravilova talks with the Humanities Council about her latest book, "The Ruble: A Political History," which was published in June 2023 by Oxford University.
The George J. Mitchell Scholar program is one of the country's most prestigious scholarship programs. Mitchell Scholars spend a year doing graduate study in Ireland.
Congratulations to Joseph Bishop, Emily Chesley, José Edwin Argueta Funes *23, Caitlin Harvey *21, and Isabela Morales *19.
The Koren Prize recognizes outstanding departmental work during the junior year.
Harshbarger is concentrating in history and is also pursuing three minors: in history and the practice of diplomacy; Near Eastern studies; and Russian, East European and Eurasian studies. At Oxford, he will pursue an MPhil in history. He will begin his studies there in October.
The American Historical Association awards the prize for the best book in any field of history prior to CE 1000.
The Carter Kim Combe (’74) History Prize recognizes the best second semester junior research paper.
Burnett’s class, which is new this fall, centers around how the past has been conveyed and conceived in different times and places, how the past remains present, and the implications of humans as historical creatures.
Congratulations to Meher Ali and Emily Chesley.
The SEE Change podcast interviews Nancy Weiss Malkiel, professor emerita of history, about starting her career in academia as one of only three women on Princeton's faculty in the 1960s and the changes happening more broadly for women in higher ed.
New books out or forthcoming by D. Graham Burnett, Thomas Conlan, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, and Anthony Grafton.
The prize is given to the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar in Anglo-American legal history.
Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emerita, passed away at the age of 94 in Toronto. She was at Princeton for eighteen years, from 1978 until she retired in 1996.
The full cohort of 12 Cotsen postdoctoral fellows is drawn from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Fellows hold appointments as lecturers in their academic host departments and in the Humanities Council. Feigh's research examines how individuals navigated the expansion of the modern Ethiopian imperial state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Featuring papers written by:
Annabelle Duval
Grace Chung
Miguel Gracia-Zhang
Robin Park
Edited by Johanne Kjaersgaard
Congratulations to Siobhan Barco, Joseph Bishop, Haris Durrani, Bennett Nagtegaal, and Joseph Puchner.
The prize is awarded to outstanding publications in the field of Asian Studies.
A new book is out by Michael A. Blaakman.