Dressed up and Laying Bare: Fashion in the Shadow of the Market
Friday, Aug 9, 2019
Faculty Highlight
Toni Morrison, Nobel-winning author and emeritus Princeton faculty member, dies at 88
Tuesday, Aug 6, 2019
World-renowned writer and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University, died last night. She was 88.Summer Reads 2019: What are Princeton professors reading this summer?
Thursday, Jul 25, 2019
Five Princeton professors talk about how the books on their shelves relate to their work and share what’s on their summer reading lists. The illustrations, by Matilda Luk, depict a curated selection each professor pulled from their bookshelves, including one book of note.The Reparations Debate
Wednesday, Jul 10, 2019
How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?Luxemburg Lecture: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation"
Wednesday, Jul 3, 2019
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, joined the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in June 2019 to hold a joint Luxemburg Lecture and W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Lecture at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. For those who missed out, her lecture and the subsequent discussion is now available to watch online:Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary Project Receives CDH Research Partnership Grant
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2019
Stories have been told for almost two millennia about the Virgin Mary and the miracles she has performed for the faithful who call upon her name. One of the most important collections of such folktales is the body of almost 700 Ethiopian Marian miracles, written from the 1300s through the 1900s, in the ancient African language of Gəˁəz (also known as classical Ethiopic).
Dr. Ruha Benjamin featured in Episode 12 of the Northwestern Digital Learning Podcast.
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2019
"Today I'm coming to you live from TEACHx, an annual celebration of experiments in teaching with technology. I am truly honored and humbled to have the opportunity to speak with the conference’s keynote speaker, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University and the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier and the forthcoming Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. She has studied the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine for just over 15 years and speaks widely on issues of innovation, equity, health, and justice."AAS Faculty Book Suggestions: Reena Goldthree
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
What is Professor Goldthree reading? We sat down with Reena Goldthree, Professor of Caribbean History at Princeton University, and talked about some of the most exciting books on her shelf right now. Here is what she had to say...Donald Goines and the Birth of Black Pulp Fiction
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Donald Joseph Goines was born on December 15, 1936, in Chicago. Father Joseph and mother Myrtle were hardworking migrants from the South who had managed to open up their own cleaning store. Around 1940 the family, which included older sister Marie, relocated to Detroit and resumed the cleaning business. It was in the Motor City that, according to biographer Eddie B. Allen Jr., Goines started down a dark path.‘Reading’ Toni Morrison: Students explore Princeton’s literary icon from archive to page
Monday, May 13, 2019
Morrison came to Princeton in 1989 to teach literature and creative writing. During her 17 years of teaching, she played a key role in expanding the University’s commitments to the creative and performing arts and to African American studies. In 1994, she founded the Princeton Atelier, which brings together undergraduate students in interdisciplinary collaborations with acclaimed artists. In 2016, Princeton University Library announced that the the major portion of the Toni Morrison Papers, which had been part of the permanent library collections since 2014, were open for research to students, faculty and scholars worldwide. (One item from the Morrison Papers, a handwritten manuscript draft of “Beloved,” is on view through June 23 in the exhibition “Welcome Additions: Selected Acquisitions 2012-18” in Firestone Library’s Milberg Gallery.) In 2017, the University dedicated the naming of Morrison Hall, formerly West College, in her honor.
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