A hub for interdisciplinary inquiry and idea incubation, the Princeton Humanities Initiative brings people together to think critically and imaginatively about the human experience and fuels innovative research, teaching, and civic engagement to address the key challenges of our time.
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Welcome to the Princeton Humanities Initiative! Established in 2024 after a two-year planning process led by Dean of the Faculty and William S. Tod Professor of English Gene Jarrett, the initiative supports innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative humanities-centered research, teaching, and community engagement while also serving as a multi-year bridge to the foundation of a Humanities Institute at Princeton.
News and Events
John Paul Christy has been named Executive Director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, effective March 10, 2025. He joins Director Rachael Z. DeLue in building this vital new initiative. Established in 2024, the Humanities Initiative supports innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative humanities-centered research, teaching, and…
Events
Bringing together humanities faculty from all 18 community colleges in New Jersey
Indigenous scholars from Guatemala and Mexico who are all native speakers and researchers of literature in a Mayan language join faculty and researchers from Princeton and other U.S. institutions
Established in 2024, the Princeton Humanities Initiative is a crossroads and hub for humanistic-based inquiry and idea incubation.
“Media & Meaning: Humanities in the World” is the theme for the three-year term of the Humanities Initiative.
Learn more about the program leadership.