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Old Dominion Professorships for Princeton Faculty Members

This program is designed to provide additional research time for faculty members and to enhance the humanities community more broadly by providing a core group of senior faculty with time and resources to engage colleagues and students from across the university in sustained discussions of their work.

The Professorship
Old Dominion Professors are appointed for a term of one year, one semester of which would otherwise have been devoted to a regular sabbatical leave. The Professorship extends that leave to one full year. Old Dominion Professors are expected to be in residence for the year and to engage in the intellectual life of the Council and the university. To foster a community of scholars, Old Dominion Professors are provided with offices in a congenial setting outside their home departments. They participate in Humanities Council activities, typically as Faculty Fellows in the Society of Fellows.

Eligibility and application
Tenured faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to apply by submitting a curriculum vitae and project proposal (2-3 pages) along with a copy of the leave request they have submitted to the Dean of the Faculty. Proposals may involve new and exploratory work or on-going scholarly projects. Deadline is December 1.

Selection
The Executive Committee of the Humanities Council evaluates proposals and makes recommendations to the Chair of the Council and the Dean of the Faculty.

Criteria
In making its recommendations, the Committee is mindful, not only of the intrinsic merits of the projects, but also of the potential convergence among proposals and the opportunities for intellectual exchange among Old Dominion Professors.

Old Dominion Professors for 2009-2010

Susan Naquin, History, East Asian Studies
Esther Schor, English
Susan Stewart, English

Roster of Previous Old Dominion Professors

April Alliston, Comparative Literature
Daniel Garber, Philosophy
William Gleason, English
Molly Greene, History, Hellenic Studies
Gilbert Harman, Philosophy
Martha Himmelfarb, Religion
Robert Kaster, Classics
Paul Lansky, Music
Albert Raboteau, Religion
Daniel T. Rodgers, History

Questions may be addressed to Gideon Rosen, Chair, or Carol Rigolot, Executive Director.