Faculty Highlight

Princeton University’s Board of Trustees has approved the following faculty promotions, effective Jan. 16, 2021.

World-renowned writer and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Princeton University, who died on Aug. 5, 2019, will be honored in a Thanksgiving weekend marathon reading of her novel “Song of Solomon” and a posthumous induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes acclaimed poet Dr. Joshua Bennett—the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College and author of The Sobbing School: Poems—for a discussion of his latest books, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man and the poetry collection Owed. He will be joined in conversation by writer and scholar Dr. Imani Perry, author of the award–winning biography, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.

Uncle Bobbie's own Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is in conversation with Eddie Glaude for the launch of his profoundly insightful, radical and timely book "We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest and Possibility", followed by a live audience Q&A.