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Timothy Loh receives the David M. Schneider Award
Nov. 8, 2024

Timothy Loh, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology, recently received the David M. Schneider Award. This award is given annually to a graduate…

Divya Cherian receives American Historical Association book award
Oct. 25, 2024

Faculty fellow, Divya Cherian (history) receives The John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her most recent book “Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia.” This American Historical Association award recognizes the most…

Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts welcomes new scholars
Oct. 23, 2024

Five new scholars have joined Princeton University’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts this fall. The society is an interdisciplinary community of postdoctoral fellows and Princeton faculty members that encourages innovation in scholarship and teaching.

Timothy Loh receives David Hakken graduate student paper prize
Oct. 2, 2024

The Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing awards Timothy Y. Loh the 2024 graduate student paper prize in recognition of excellent work by a rising scholar. His paper, “An Expanded Istifada: Cochlear Implants and Regulating Communication for Deaf Jordanians,” examines the diagnostic and pedagogical practices of…

The Society celebrates 25 years
Aug. 13, 2024

In 2024, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts celebrates its 25th anniversary. Since 1999, it has provided a unique space in contemporary academia, fostering vibrant and innovative interdisciplinary research, teaching and collaboration in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Over 25 years, the Society has welcomed 123…

New book release | Victorian Ethical Optics
Aug. 12, 2024

Past fellow, Natalie Prizel (2018-2021; English) recently published a book "Victorian Ethical Optics; Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies." 

"Victorian Ethical Optics" asks how artists and authors in the Victorian period…

Bailey Sincox will join the 2024-25 Folger Institute's colloquium
Aug. 9, 2024

Bailey Sincox (fellow; English/Humanistic Studies) will join the 2024-25 Folger Institute's “Shakespeares, Publics, and the Humanities” as a colloquium participant for this yearlong combined-mode monthly colloquium. 

New book release | Reading Practice
Aug. 9, 2024

Past fellow Melissa Reynolds (2019-2022; History) releases her first new book, "Reading Practice
The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print." Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, “Reading Practice” reconstructs the contours…

2024 Call for Applications
May 23, 2024

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2025-2028 fellowship competition. The following fellowships are to be awarded: 


Two or three Open Fellowships in any…

Farewell and best wishes to the 2021-24 cohort
May 23, 2024

The Society of Fellows bids farewell and extends best wishes to its fellows Matthew Delvaux (History), Ayah Nuriddin (African American Studies) and Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez (Spanish and Portuguese), who are completing their…

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