Thomas D. Conlan is a professor in the Departments of East Asian Studies and History. His latest book “Kinkakuji and Kitayama: Space, Place, Monuments and Memory in Japan, 1222–1994” was published in December 2025 by Brill.How did you get the idea for this project?I first visited Kinkakuji, one of...

The Academy of Athens, Greece's national academy of arts, science and letters, awarded Teresa Shawcross, Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies, its Lykourgeio Prize for her book Wisdom's House, Heaven's Gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. The prize recognizes “an original,...

Dec. 8, 2025In 1725, five Native American diplomats from the Otoe, Osage, Missouria and Illinois (Peoria) Nations of the Mississippi Valley crossed the Atlantic to be received at the French court of King Louis XV at the Palace of Versailles.Their visit recognized the alliance between France and the...

Paridhi Rustogi was delighted when she learned she’d been accepted to the 2025 GOOD-OARS International Summer School. A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geosciences and a fellow in the HMEI Climate and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Program (CESEn), Rustogi was one of only 35...

It’s no surprise that elephants rely on their ecosystems to thrive. But a new study finds that the relationship is reciprocal.The study—Context-dependent forest elephant seed dispersal: implications for pathways of elephant-driven patterns of biodiversity and carbon storage—reveals how Africa’s...

Anne McClintock, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, recently participated in the Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale, “How Heavy Is a City?”, for which she is an advisor. The Lisbon Triennale (Oct 2 – Dec 8)...

Excerpts from Professor Rob Nixon’s groundbreaking book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2013) have just been published in an Italian edition by Wetlands Press in Venice: Slow Violence. Il tempo della giustizia ambientale. This new edition is enriched by...

For decades, scientists told the incredible story of a mosquito that rapidly evolved within two centuries to bite humans in the underground tunnels of the London subway. While this story never made much sense, the mosquito’s true origins have remained unclear. A new study— published today in...

Princeton University senior Brian Mhando has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize students for “outstanding intellectual ability,” “leadership potential” and “a commitment to improving the lives of others,” among other criteria. They cover the full cost of a...

Princeton University senior Brian Mhando has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The awards recognize students for “outstanding intellectual ability,” “leadership potential” and “a commitment to improving the lives of others,” among other criteria. They cover the full cost of a...

Zahid R. Chaudhary is an associate professor in the Department of English and the interim director of the Program in South Asian Studies. His latest book “Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth” was published in November 2025 by Fordham University Press.How did you get the idea for this...

Through Princeton’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (PTIC), students can take courses about (and minor in) translation, attend topical lectures and receive funding for translation projects. Every semester, the program, which is housed within the Princeton Institute for...

In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased, multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition. In a new study in Journal of Religious Ethics, Aysenur Cam, 2025-2026 PIIRS Graduate Fellow and doctoral candidate in the...

Intellectually formidable, groundbreaking and beloved were among the many words used to describe Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor Emeritus, during a two-day conference held in his honor. A multidisciplinary array of scholars from around the world converged on the Princeton campus on...

Around the world, religious and ethnic groups have helped people deal with shocks to their lives and livelihoods for centuries. But ethnicity-based insurance operates through in-group reciprocity and solidarity, which can limit the formation of out-group ties and exacerbate ethnic divisions. In...

Bridging insights from history, politics, culture and the arts, the new minor in European Studies (EUS) invites undergraduate students from across disciplines to explore ideas that have shaped Europe’s past and present.The minor, offered jointly by the Humanities Council’s Program in European...

David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and celebrated translator, died at his holiday home in the village of Doussard in the French Alps, on Oct. 26. He was 80.Bellos, the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, and professor of French and Italian and comparative...

 Cities are changing the planet at an incredible pace, and urbanization drives evolution — and sometimes extinction — in animals, plants and even microbes. Yet very little is known about how, or how quickly, species evolve to survive alongside humans.A new study in Science aims to...

The Soviet Union was a paradoxical space of both liberation and repression. Bolshevist radical policies opened opportunities for emancipation through enfranchisement, access to education, social mobility and mass welfare. At the same time, Soviet campaigns of political persecution, forced...