Spots still remain for the year-long exploration of Western literature, philosophy, history and music. Guided by a team of faculty from across the humanities and social sciences, students join a […] »
The Humanities Council celebrates seniors in the Class of 2024 who were awarded 73 certificates and seven independent majors across five Council undergraduate programs – European Cultural Studies, Humanistic Studies, […] »
Professor Irene Small’s (Art & Archaeology) humanistic studies course, “Language to Be Looked At,” profoundly impacted the way undergraduate students look at words and art. Zoha Khan ’26 had stratospheric […] »
Ananya Agustin Malhotra ’20 is among two recent Princeton graduates named recipients of the 2024 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children […] »
What is it to be human? The new minor in the Humanities Council’s Program in Humanistic Studies reflects on this major question and more, inviting students to explore interdisciplinary and […] »
Five Princeton alumni working in film were asked to give advice to current students and recent graduates hoping to break into the industry, in a March story for Princeton Alumni […] »
Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Humanistic Studies for an open house on Monday, April 8 at 5:30 pm in 15 Joseph Henry House to learn more about the new […] »
Anne Xu ’26 was selected as the recipient of the 2022-23 Haarlow Prize from the Program in Humanistic Studies. The prize is awarded to students who deliver exceptional papers in […] »
Princeton University senior Sam Bisno has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study history at Queen’s University Belfast. The Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to 12 students nationwide by […] »
Princeton University senior Sam Harshbarger has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Harshbarger, of Cranbury, New Jersey, is concentrating in history and is […] »
“For this next part, everyone is going to need an axe.” One at a time, 12 undergraduate students chose a blade from the toolbox in a studio at the Viking […] »
The Western Humanities Sequence will hold an information session on Monday, August 14 at 12:00 pm EST. Please email Stephanie Lewandowski, steph@princeton.edu, for the Zoom link if you would like […] »
Andrea Capra (Humanities Council and French and Italian) is one of nine University faculty and academic professionals to receive funding from the Council on Science and Technology (CST) for innovative […] »
Bailey Sincox (Humanities Council, English, and Humanistic Studies) has received a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Grant from the Humanities Council, which will enrich her fall 2023 course “Theater in […] »
When poet René Char joined the French Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in WWII, he led sections of the maquis, rural guerrilla units, in Provence, and orchestrated dangerous parachute […] »
Two Haarlow prizes were awarded this past academic year to students who delivered exceptional papers to a 200-Level Humanistic Studies course during the academic year 2021-2022. The winners are Rachel […] »
Rachel Sturley ’23, an English major bound for medical school, focused her senior thesis on how writers and artists at the turn of the 20th century portrayed their own experiences […] »
The Humanities Council’s Fund for Canadian Studies has named historian and religious studies scholar Emma Anderson (University of Ottawa) as the 2023-24 Laurence G. Pathy ’56 Visiting Professor in Canadian […] »
Beatrice Kitzinger (Art & Archaeology) and Michael Wachtel (Slavic Languages and Literatures) have been named new Behrman Professors in the Humanities Council. The appointment recognizes distinguished humanities scholars and dedicated […] »
The Western Humanities Sequence, Everything You Always Wanted to Know Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 2:30 – 4:30 pm Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 2:30 – 4:30 pm Table 32, McCosh Courtyard »
Princeton senior Anna Allport has been named one of three recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Allport is an […] »
Marie-Rose Sheinerman, a member of the Class of 2023, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. She is among 32 American recipients of […] »
Beatrix Bondor, a member of the Class of 2023, is one of two students awarded this year’s George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize. The prize is awarded to members of […] »
Please join us to learn more about the Humanistic Studies Program. Thursday, September 1, 2022, 1:00-4:00 PM, Frick Chemistry Lab & McDonnell Brush Gallery Learn more about our Humanities Sequences […] »
Spots still remain for the year-long exploration of Western literature, philosophy, history and music. Guided by a team of faculty from across the humanities and social sciences, students join a […] »
In her senior thesis, Emma Treadway ’22, a classics concentrator from Emelia, Ohio, explored ways that the basic tenets of Stoicism — a school of philosophy that dates from 300 […] »
This spring, nine Princeton undergraduate students in HUM 352, “Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance,” explored the vibrant arts scene in Trenton, New Jersey, through the lens of […] »
Frances Mangina, a philosophy concentrator from Toronto, was named salutatorian of Princeton’s Class of 2022. The Princeton faculty accepted the nominations of the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at […] »
The Western Humanities Sequence, Everything You Always Wanted to Know Tuesday, April 26, 2021, 4:30 PM ESTPlease register through the Preview Portal »
Naomi Shifrin, a member of the Class of 2022, is one of five students awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year […] »
By Nolan W. Musslewhite ‘25 The 2021-22 Humanities Sequence class headed to the Metropolitan Opera on April 1 for the opening night of Strauss’s “Elektra.” The performance, said students, was […] »
Senior Nathnael Mengistie was named a recipient of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Mengistie was named a Sachs Scholar at […] »
Senior Ethan Kahn is one of 14 students at Princeton University selected to join the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), which funds graduate fellowships and undergraduate summer internships […] »
Elena Fratto is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has received Humanities Council Magic Grants for Innovation to develop team-taught medical humanities courses and a working group, “Bodies […] »
Please join us to learn more about the Humanistic Studies Certificate. Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 5:00-6:00 PM EST This event is part of Wintersession, for full schedule and registration, visit […] »
HUM 216/217, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion, went on two excursions during the fall semester, the first to the Metropolitan Museum […] »
What if everybody knew… about the 1921 all-Black Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and its lasting impact on contemporary musical theater? Host and producer Dexter L. Thomas Jr. explores the show’s […] »
Professors Martin Kern and Brian Steininger took their HUM 233 / EAS 233 / COM 233 class to visit one of the Princeton Art Museum’s most precious artifacts. »
Haarlow prizes were awarded this summer to two students who delivered exceptional papers to a 200-Level Humanistic Studies course during the academic year 2020-2021. The winners are Laura Haubold ’24 […] »
The Academic Expo is an open house for first-year students to explore academic departments and programs at Princeton. It will be held virtually this year and all three of our Humanities Sequences will hold […] »
Humanistic Studies Certificate student Bethany Villaruz ’24 was enrolled this past spring in Professor Allen Guelzo’s seminar, HUM 363, Writing Lincoln: Biography, Film Literature. A paper she wrote for the […] »
How have “revolutions” in communications’ technologies altered the course of human history? Is it true that the printing press made the Reformation possible? Are social media platforms destroying democracy? To […] »
Chenoweth to join interdisciplinary faculty team. »
The Program in Humanistic Studies is proud to award 16 certificates to seniors from 11 different concentrations. The certificate program provides a home for students to explore new perspectives within […] »
Congratulations to Kiara Gilbert and Jon Ort. »
By Jon Garaffa ’20, Humanities Council What is it like to translate your own work into another language? Pulitzer Prize-winner and director of the Program in Creative Writing Jhumpa Lahiri recently discussed […] »
Nathan Davis, a lecturer in the theater department and Berlind Playwright-in-Residence, received the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize for Drama on March 22. Davis is currently teaching HUM 352 / […] »
The Program in Humanistic Studies announces the Fall 2021 courses which are open to students from all concentrations. HUM courses are broad-based, interdisciplinary, and often team-taught. They have no prerequisites […] »
The Western Humanities Sequence, Everything You Always Wanted to Know Friday, April 16, 2021, 4:30 PM EST If you missed the live event, check out the recording here https://youtu.be/HndfQAsPTBs »
Kotin and Small show news ways to engage in visual poetry and archival materials. »
Workshop in conjunction with the class “HUM 352, Arts in the Invisible City: Race, Policy, Performance” NEW DATE: Thurs, March 11 at 4:30-5:30 pm on ZoomThis event is open to […] »
The Program in Humanistic Studies congratulates Paige Allen. »
Ksenia Chizova is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies. Her new book “Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea” is published by Columbia University Press. She will teach “East Asian Humanities […] »
Capstone examines how contemporary writers reimagine classical narratives. »
Students will learn about the rich art scene and hear from speakers with activist, artistic, and policy backgrounds. »
Two Haarlow prizes and two honorable mentions were awarded over the summer to students who delivered exceptional papers to a 200-Level Humanistic Studies course during the academic year, 2019-2020. The […] »
The Humanities Council welcomes Mintzker to Behrman leadership. »
Please join us to learn more about the Humanistic Studies Certificate. Friday, February 5, 2021, 3:00-4:30 PM EST For full schedule and registration, visit: https://airtable.com/shrjBhggl03rXa904/tbloluCBNA97RJkqv »
By Ruby Shao ’17 The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language, the first monograph of Katie Chenoweth (Department of French and Italian), recently won the […] »
Gilbert will study at Cambridge University and SOAS University, London. »
Students will learn how computational methods can enhance humanities research and inquiry. »
High school students from around the world learn about studying the arts and humanities at Princeton. »
The Program in Humanistic Studies is announces the Spring 2021 courses which are open to students from all majors. HUM courses are broad based, interdisciplinary and often team-taught. They have no prerequisites […] »
How can the humanities steer us in these time of crisis and teach us how to be human. »
Humanistic Studies certificate student and HUM Mentor Paige Allen ’21 talks to The Daily Princetonian as part of a series on how students lives have changed since the switch to […] »
Council invites application for professorship in AY 2021-22. »
On Wednesday, September 2nd at 10:00 AM (EST), students from the 2019-20 sequence class have invited a panel of alumni to talk about HUM 216-217 in a discussion entitled “Owning […] »
Contemporary questions frame what we can learn from these texts of the past. »
In a typical summer, thousands of Princeton students are scattered across the country and around the globe for internships that enrich their academic focus, provide valuable work experience, jumpstart their […] »
The Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture is a Princeton staple. How is it adapting to become more critical of the Western canon it teaches? HUM students and professors share their perspectives on how the […] »
Joshua L. Freeman, Lecturer in the Humanities Council and East Asian Studies and Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, writes a moving article in the The New York […] »
In an interview featured in World Magazine, Humanities Council Senior Research Scholar Allen Guelzo explains how a deep understanding of America’s racial history is part of the path forward for our society. Read the […] »
Find out more about the Humanities Sequences at the 2020 Academic Expo »
Humanistic Studies Certificate Alumna, Yung In Chae ’15, has a feature article in this week’s issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, How to Live as the Ancients Did, From drinking […] »
HUM 216-219 faculty and students find inspiration and connection during the Spring 2020 pandemic. »
This year the Program in Humanistic Studies is proud to award 17 certificates to seniors from 11 different departments. The certificate program provides a platform for students to explore new […] »
Find out how the digital pathway of the certificate program gave Jianing Zhao' 20 new methods for learning. »
Students in the Spring 2020 course “Literature and Medicine” (SLA / HUM / GHP / RES 368) taught by Elena Fratto (Slavic Languages and Literatures) discover that literary texts keep them connected […] »
This year Denis Feeney is the Behrman Professor in charge of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture. »
HUM certificate student and mentor Kirsten Traudt ’20 is featured in a new podcast launched by the University. The “We Roar” podcast shares the personal stories and expertise of students, […] »
The Program in Humanistic Studies is excited to announce new Fall 2020 courses open to students from all majors. HUM courses are broad based, interdisciplinary and often team-taught. They have no prerequisites […] »
Senior Kirsten Traudt has been awarded the Keasbey Scholarship, which provides the opportunity to study at selected British universities. Traudt, of Morristown, New Jersey, is a Classics major and is also pursuing a […] »
Senior Sarah Hirschfield has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards give outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom the opportunity to pursue postgraduate study at the University of […] »
Princeton University senior Emma Coley has been named co-winner of the 2020 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. She shares the award with […] »
Emma Coley ’20, concentrating in Religion with certificates in Humanistic Studies, Urban studies, and Ethnographic studies, received the 2019 A. James Fisher, Jr. Memorial Award. Given in honor of A. […] »
How did cinnamon burst into medieval cookbooks? In a new course for spring 2020, HUM 320 / HIS 346 / MED 322 / ENG 233: “Making Medieval Worlds: Methods and […] »
Yousef Elzalabany ’20 is one of three seniors awarded the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards. Elzalabany, a concentrator in Near Eastern […] »
Each year, the Haarlow Prize is awarded to students who deliver exceptional papers to a 200-Level Humanistic Studies course. This year’s winners are Allie Mangel ’22 and Fumika Mizuno ’21. For […] »
In her essay published in Scientific America in October, 2019, Sophie Evans ’19 describes the importance of seeing the relationship between astrophysics and humanism; how the human mind seeks to […] »
A memorial service honoring the life and intellectual legacy of Professor Theodore K. Rabb. Theodore Rabinowicz was born on March 5, 1937, in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia, to Oskar and Rose (Oliner) […] »
The Humanities Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Allen Guelzo as a Senior Research Scholar beginning in academic year 2019-20. He will teach in the Council’s Program in […] »
This year, the Humanities Council is supporting ten Breakthrough Seminars, which offer students courses with experiential or field components that move outside the traditional classroom setting. For 65 years the […] »
In March 2019, a group of Princeton students explored New York City’s art galleries as part of the HUM/EAS 234: East Asian Humanities II: Tradition and Modernity course. The excursion […] »
Originally from Perth Amboy, NJ, Victoria Tang ’19 graduated with a degree in Psychology as well as certificates in Neuroscience and Humanistic Studies. Having participated in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western […] »
For the first time this fall, the Humanities Council’s Program in Humanistic Studies will be offering students a Near Eastern Humanities Sequence alongside the East Asian Humanities Sequence and the […] »
Welcome to Princeton University and the Program in Humanistic Studies. We invite you to join our lively community of faculty and students, who represent all divisions and departments of the […] »
Rafail Zoulis, a classics major from Athens, Greece, has been named the Latin salutatorian. Zoulis is pursuing certificates in Hellenic studies, Humanistic Studies and Medieval Studies. Read the full story […] »
Annabel Barry ’19 has been named co-winner of the University’s 2019 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. They will be recognized at a luncheon […] »
Princeton Preview gives newly admitted students to the Class of 2023 and their families an opportunity to sample the University’s academic, residential and social offerings. The annual hosting program will […] »
Theodore Rabb, Professor of History, emeritus, founder of Princeton’s Humanities Sequence and an innovative teacher of generations of students, died Jan. 7 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. He was 81. In […] »
On Jan. 3, 1777, British and American forces fought a critical battle of the Revolutionary War on and around the Princeton University campus. This semester, 18 students in the course […] »
Senior Annabel Barry has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study philosophy and literature at University College Dublin (UCD). Twelve Mitchell Scholarships were awarded to students nationwide by […] »
The Battle of Princeton marked the first, or nearly the first, major American victory of the Revolutionary War. Because of the triumph, the colonial troops gained the fortitude to keep […] »
The Haarlow Prize is awarded annually to the recognize exceptional papers submitted to a 200-Level Humanities Studies course. This year’s winners are Alec Israeli ’21 and Sofia Pauca ’21. Israeli […] »
Global politics largely concerns mass incarceration along with border control, political theorist Nasser Abourahme argues. To explore the two crises that define our age through the lens of the camp, […] »
D’Angelo, of Hewitt, New Jersey, is majoring in Classics and pursuing certificates in Creative Writing, Humanistic Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She plans to pursue the M.St. in Classics at Oxford. She is among […] »
Congratulations to our Humanistic Studies Certificate students, Annabel Barry ’19, for receiving first prize for the 93rd annual 2018 Elmer Adler Book Collecting prize and Lavinia Liang ’18 on her […] »
Professor Effie Rentzou (French and Italian) holds a precept with the Humanities Sequence students in the garden of Joseph Henry House. »
Princeton Preview gives newly admitted students to the Class of 2022 and their families an opportunity to sample the University’s academic, residential and social offerings. The annual hosting program will […] »
Freshman and sophomores from all majors are welcome to join the HUM Sequence 218-219 mid-year. There are no prerequisites. Among the six distinguished faculty who will teach this intensive two-credit course […] »
In what ways might a short story by Tolstoy or a novel by Toni Morrison illuminate aspects of medicine or disease that a medical textbook can’t? And why might this […] »
English major and Humanities Sequence alumnus, Luke Gamble ’18 and coach Billy Pate share their perspectives on how both interests led to Gamble’s development as a player, scholar and person during his […] »
The 2016-17 Haarlow Prize was awarded to Gunnar Rice ’17 and Tali Pelts ’20 for the two best papers submitted to a 200-level Humanistics Studies course. Gunnar Rice ’17, an […] »
Jenna Spitzer ’17 majored in Philosophy with certificates in humanistic studies, values and public life, and environmental studies. She took part in Humanities Council programs including the Humanities Sequence, Behrman […] »
Claire Ashmead ’17 won a Witherspoon Scholarship to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. A history major with certificates in humanistic studies, creative […] »
Humanities Sequence founder Theodore Rabb will forever cherish the powerful meaning that towering figures from the course hold for alumni in the real world, he said at a May 23 […] »
Jin Yun Chow, a comparative literature major from Hong Kong and member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton’s Class of 2017. The […] »
Senior Ruby Shao’s manuscript, titled “A Natural Case for Taxation,” has been selected as a first place winner in the inaugural issue of the Princeton Undergraduate Research Journal. This honor was […] »
Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows members Lara Norgaard and Vidushi Sharma, along with fellow seniors Ava Hoffman and Achille Tenkiang, have been awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse ’26 Prize to pursue […] »
Senior Ayelet Wenger, a member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows, has been awarded the Keasbey Scholarship, which provides the opportunity to study at selected British universities. Wenger, of […] »
Monique Claiborne, a senior and founding member of the Humanities Mentorship program, has received a Luce Scholarship for a yearlong internship in Asia. She is a philosophy major earning a […] »
Solveig Gold, a classics major pursuing a certificate in humanistic studies, is one of two Princeton seniors selected as co-winners of the 2017 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the University’s […] »
The Council of the Humanities is pleased to announce two new Behrman Professors in the Humanities; Effie Rentzou, associate professor of French in the French and Italian Department, and Yelena […] »
Princeton senior Joani Etskovitz has been named a 2017 Marshall Scholar. The Marshall Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living at a British university of the recipient’s choice […] »
The Humanities Council is pleased to announce that Jeff Dolven, professor of English, will become the second Behrman Professor in the Humanities, starting his three-year term next spring. The appointment […] »
Humanistic Studies announces the following new course offerings for Fall 2016: Script, Screen, and Sexuality in East Asia – COM 379 / HUM 379 / EAS 379 / GSS 380 […] »
Students in the Spring 2020 course “Literature and Medicine” taught by Elena Fratto (Slavic Languages and Literatures) discover that literary texts keep them connected to one another — and help […] »
The Humanities Council’s many interdisciplinary certificate programs, including the Program in Humanistic Studies, offer students “Breakthrough Seminars” that help to enrich and deepen learning across the humanities curriculum and offer […] »
With the support of the Humanities Council, the students enrolled in the Spring 2020 Medical Anthropology course (ANT/HUM 240)—co-taught by João Biehl, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and […] »
Students from the course ANT/HUM 240: Medical Anthropology, showcased their final community-based research and artistic projects at the Medical Humanities Fair on May 13. The course draws from medical anthropological […] »
