The University is embarking on a sweeping new commitment to humanities scholarship to expand its impact on campus, in higher education and in the wider world. A new Princeton Humanities Initiative will bring faculty together from across disciplines to collaborate on shared intellectual projects.
Director Rachael DeLue (Art & Archaeology) said the Humanities Initiative will strengthen interdisciplinary connections and intellectual community across the humanities and beyond. The goal is to supercharge the University’s capacity “to take really big swings at big ideas,” she said, in a story on the University homepage announcing the initiative and highlighting the impact of the humanities.
The initiative will build on the strengths of the Humanities Council, expanding institutional support and structure for the humanities and ultimately absorbing the council’s functions. It will support large interdisciplinary projects and allow the arts and humanities at Princeton “to collaborate in big, substantial ways with external partners — from the National Endowment for the Humanities to public school systems, hospitals and everything in between,” DeLue said.
