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
Led by Princeton Humanities Steering Committee member Christina H. Lee and Maria Cristina Martinez-Juan (SOAS University of London), the 1762 Archive project has launched the digital reconstruction of the context and contents of the dispersed 18th-century Library of the Convent of San Agustin in…
Events
PITHOS (Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars) is a collaboration of faculty at Princeton University, the University of Ioannina, and the University of Thessaly that aims to foster intellectual collaboration and exchange among scholars of ancient Greek art and archaeology. Every academic year, three graduate students are selected from…
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.
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