Princeton professors Rachael DeLue (Art & Archaeology) and Peter Singer (University Center for Human Values) have received the University’s 48th annual Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. The annual award recognizes research, publication, teaching, or other distinguished service to the University community.
Rachael DeLue is the Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art, professor of art and archaeology and American studies, and chair of the Department of Art and Archaeology. She is jointly appointed in the Effron Center for the Study of America, and an associated faculty member in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Program in Media and Modernity. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005.
She specializes in the history of knowledge in Europe and North America with a focus on intersections between art and science. In 2013, she helped co-design ”America Then and Now,” a team-taught introductory course for American studies, Asian American studies and Latino/Latina studies at Princeton. The course regularly draws nearly 200 undergraduates, who study historical and contemporary novels, poems, film, songs, paintings, and archival documents.
In addition to teaching at Princeton, DeLue serves the broader art and humanities communities in multiple ways. She is the editor-in-chief of the Terra Foundation Essays and sits on the advisory board of the Archives of American Art Journal. She was previously the reviews editor for The Art Bulletin and served on the editorial board of the journal American Art. On Humanities Advocacy Day this March, DeLue was part of a New Jersey delegation, along with Humanities Council Chair Esther Schor (English), that visited 11 congressional offices in Washington, D.C., to advocate for humanities funding.
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1999 and will transfer to emeritus status in July. He is an associated faculty member at Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute, where he is involved with the Climate Futures Initiative for Science, Values and Policy, and the Department of Philosophy. He is a renowned philosopher best known for his work in applied ethics, particularly regarding the ethical treatment of animals and the alleviation of poverty.
Singer has also served as mentor and faculty adviser for more than 20 years for the undergraduate-run Human Values Forum, where students and faculty members meet “to discuss current and enduring questions concerning ethics and human values” over weekly dinners featuring guest speakers from within and beyond the University.
He has also served as mentor and faculty adviser for more than 20 years for the undergraduate-run Human Values Forum, where students and faculty members meet “to discuss current and enduring questions concerning ethics and human values” over weekly dinners featuring guest speakers from within and beyond the University.
Singer’s recent book, ”Animal Liberation Now” (2023) updates his 1975 classic “Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals,” which is widely credited with setting in motion the modern animal rights movement. His latest book, “The Buddhist and the Ethicist,” was also published in 2023.
