The Princeton & Slavery Project, a scholarly investigation of the University’s involvement with the institution of slavery, launched its website and hosted a scholarly symposium in November 2017.
When history professor Julian Zelizer and neuroscientist Sam Wang started the podcast Politics and Polls prior to the 2016 presidential election, they never dreamed it would still be going a year later.
Class of 2018 seniors receive History’s Koren Prize given for the best academic performance during the junior year.
Clockwise, starting at top left: Jonathan Feld, Ian Iverson, Christian Pavlakos, Maria Blesie.
The Academy Lectures is a series of open lectures that covers the most exciting fields of science in which the Academy is active.
The prize is awarded for the best second-semester Junior Paper.
A one-hour historical documentary featuring Nell Irvin Painter tells the story of the construction of race, and racism.
The whole truth and nothing but the truth? In varied works, Princeton historians examine how societies across time and context have debated, negotiated, and arrived at, authoritative truths — in law, media, science, religion, and politics.
The fellowships are awarded to students in the humanities and the social sciences.
Yair Mintzker discusses how he conceived the idea for his latest book, The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew.
“Walking Histories: Race and Protest at Princeton and in Trenton,” a campus tour planned by Alison Isenberg, Aaron Landsman, and students, involved a series of performative walks across campus.
Matthew Karp discusses his book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy.
October 18
4:30pm
219 Aaron Burr
Keith Wailoo, an expert on pain and author of Pain: A Political History, explains how the opioid epidemic is linked to the rise in the numbers of people suffering from chronic pain.
The successful candidate will work on some aspect of how the social construction and lived experience of difference intersect with legal, illegal, quasi-legal, and extra-legal forms of social order.
Applications received by January 2, 2018 will receive full consideration.
We are pleased to announce the Davis Center Fellows for Fall 2017 under the topic of Risk and Fortune.
Fara Dabhoiwala explores the origins of freedom of speech, with extracts from key flashpoints in the past, in a 3-part BBC radio series.
Liberals dominate the faculties at most universities. But conservatives control the true centers of power.
Xiyue Wang is a Princeton graduate student in History. He was detained in Iran in August 2016 and sentenced to ten years in imprisonment in April 2017.
The deadlines are Dec. 1st for History and Dec. 15th for History of Science.
Saturday, September 23, 2017