Global Arc

Why do people move across borders, and what happens when they do? Migration has shaped our world for centuries, and today, it is at the center of heated debates in politics, the media, and academic research. In this course, we will explore the forces driving human mobility - like economic opportunity, social networks, conflicts - and what happens when migrants settle in new places. We will take a global view and ask big-picture questions: How do people make decisions about moving? How do policies shape migration flows? How do politics influence these policies?

Generative Artificial Intelligence, from large language models to other cutting-edge advancements, has sparked a whirlwind of reactions: hope, hype, horror, wonder, fear, and greed. Corporations chase profit, policymakers grapple with regulation, researchers push frontiers, countries jostle over geopolitics while individuals ponder what it all means. Sociology was born during a past era of upheaval linked to scientific-technological advances and offers powerful conceptual tools for understanding this one. This course will explore artificial intelligence through a sociological and historical lens.

This class interrogates "violence" as a lens to examine the racialization of Asian Americans. Manifestations of violence considered in the course include exclusion, forced family separation, historical erasure, hypersexualization, legal infantilization, labor market precarity, intimate partner violence, burden of the model minority myth, and poverty. This class examines these epistemological constructions as a means of identifying the ontologies that embody what it is be an Asian American.

Junior Independent Work requires students to complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. The work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the semester. See below for details on works-in-progress submissions and due dates.

The senior thesis (498-499) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

The senior thesis (498-499) is a year-long project in which students complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. While a year-long thesis is due in the student's final semester of study, the work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the academic year.

Structured course with regular group meetings that help students complete a semester-long paper or project individually to fulfill the JIW requirement.

Junior Independent Work requires students to complete a substantial piece of research and scholarship under the supervision and advisement of a Princeton faculty member. The work requires sustained investment and attention throughout the semester. See below for details on works-in-progress submissions and due dates.

This course is a cross-comparative spatial history of caste in South Asia and race in the United States. Exploring architecture's deep entanglement in property and capital, students will learn how modern property co-emerged with contextual assemblages of race, caste, class, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to examine intertwined histories of settler colonial and colonial spatial practices in these different geographies, students will engage humanities research methods through critical reading and writing while simultaneously learning to analyze and draw from visual and material culture.

This class explores what land means for different groups of people-- as an asset, a risk management device, and an icon of cultural meaning. It asks what happens not just at "land's end" (in which land is stolen) but "people's end"-- in a global political economy where land is often worth more than its inhabitants? This course treats land as an orienting concept to trace processes of dispossession, commodification and financialization amid transformations in conceptions of space, material resources, and communities.