Several large-scale research and teaching collaborations receive support from the Humanities Council to spark and develop new collaborations at Princeton and to develop multi-institutional collaborations and scholarly networks across the globe.
Learn more about Collaborative Humanities Grants and Global Initiatives, as well as the Council’s other major funding opportunities.
Collaborative Humanities
2025-26
- The Trenton/Princeton Oral History Play Project
Andrew Chignell (Religion and University Center for Human Values); Jane Cox (Lewis Center for the Arts), and Vance Smith (English)
As the University reflects on the role of public humanities, this project aims to think about the necessity of discovering and sustaining productive connections between University and the city of Trenton. This grant will support a series of workshops, classes, and research-related public events in collaboration with Princeton students, people from Rider University, and artists at the Passage Theater in Trenton. Supported by the David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Fund.
- Interdisciplinary Working Group in Psychoanalytic Studies, the Humanities, and the Arts
Brigid Doherty (German and Art & Archaeology)
This grant will support the establishment of an intellectual community for rigorous, critical discussion of psychoanalysis and its significance for the humanities and the arts, and vice versa. The grant will support a working group, a gradFUTURES Fellow, and a professional mentoring initiative to engage graduate students from all divisions.
- Turning the Global into the Local
Sophie Gee (English)
This project will bring together a group of faculty from Princeton, Oxford, Sydney, and Berlin to hold three colloquia on academic humanities to develop and improve global-focused research that uses humanities skills and capacities to have impact on local, community-focused projects, medical humanities, a First Nations art collective, aged-care networks and inclusive digital communities.
- China Digital Humanities Workshop
Anna Shields (East Asian Studies), and Paul Vierthaler (East Asian Studies)
This grant will support the first-ever one-week workshop on China Digital Humanities, to be held at Princeton University in June 2025. The project will also offer 25 graduate students from various institutions a week of training in digital humanities methods for China studies, taught by Paul Vierthaler (East Asian Studies) and five other scholars with expertise and experience in digital humanities tools.
- Five-Day Intensive Courses on Topics in Near Eastern Studies
Jack Tannous (History and Hellenic Studies)
This cross-departmental collaboration revives and reimagines the five-day intensive courses on topics in Near Eastern Studies that were fully funded by a Magic Grant more than a decade ago, and which brought Princeton global recognition in the field of Near Eastern studies. The new courses will be held at Princeton during Wintersession in 2026, 2027, and 2028. Taught by world leaders in their fields, courses will cover subjects not in the regular University curricular offerings.
Global Initiatives
2023-24
- International Network for Comparative Humanities
Maria DiBattista (English and Comparative Literature)
This initiative supports a working group of literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic dedicated to promoting the comparative study of humanities. The ongoing grant will support the further consolidation and expansion of INCH, including workshops to be held at the Princeton Athens Center, in collaboration with the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.
- Rome Archive and Library Seminar
Anthony Grafton (History)
This renewed three-year Global Initiative provides partial support for a summer graduate seminar held in Rome, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, where students will study archives in the Vatican Library, the National Library, and the Jesuit Archive, and allow curators and scholars to share their experience working with these materials.
2022-23
- Land, Language and Art
Sarah Rivett (English, American Studies) with Simon Morrison (Music, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Fund for Canadian Studies); Bryan Just (Art & Archaeology); Laura Kalin (Linguistics, Humanities Council); Tessa Desmond (American Studies); Daniel Rubenstein (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
This new three-year project, from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton, supports initiatives to foster new methodologies and modes of knowledge production in three areas of research and learning that are central to Indigenous Studies: land, language, and art.
- Rome Archive and Library Seminar
Anthony Grafton (History)
This three-year grant provides partial support for a summer graduate seminar held in Rome, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, where students will study archives in the Vatican Library and Archive, the National Library, and the Jesuit Archive, and allow curators and scholars to share their experience working with these materials.
