The Humanities Council is pleased to welcome new visiting faculty and fellows in Spring 2025, who will contribute to exciting humanities scholarship and research at Princeton.
Three Long-Term Visiting Fellows will teach or co-teach a course next semester. Branka Arsić, who specializes in literatures of the 19th century Americas, will co-teach the undergraduate course “Pacific Archives and Indigenous Cosmologies,” with Sarah Rivett (English and American Studies). Arsić is co-appointed in the Effron Center for the Study of America. Peter Heslin, a scholar of Classical Latin poetry, Roman art and topography, and the digital humanities, will join the Department of Classics and teach a graduate seminar titled “Roman Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: Horace’s Odes.” Cultural theorist C. Riley Snorton, whose work focuses on racial, sexual and transgender histories and cultural productions, will teach the graduate seminar “Literary and Cultural Theory: Bodies of Transformation.” He is co-appointed in the Department of English.
The Council’s Program in Journalism welcomes three distinguished journalists as visiting professors in the spring. Journalist, author, and podcast host Andrea Bernstein will teach the program’s investigative journalism seminar, “Uncovering Corruption in the 2020s.” Vinson Cunningham, staff writer for The New Yorker and co host of the publication’s Critics at Large podcast, will teach a McGraw Seminar titled “Writing People.” Channing Joseph, journalist and scholar of Black queer history, returns to the program to teach “The Media and Social Issues: Covering Race & Identity in America.”
Postdoctoral Research Associate Q-mars Haeri (Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies) was appointed as a lecturer in the Humanities Council this spring. He will co-teach in the Humanities Sequence “Near Eastern Humanities II: Medieval to Modern Thought and Culture” with Lara Harb (Near Eastern Studies).
In collaboration with PIIRS’ Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, the Council also provides support for the University’s Translator in Residence position. Sawad Hussain, a translator from Arabic whose work was shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, will serve as the Spring 2025 Translator in Residence.
To read more about all of the Council’s AY24-25 visitors, and find up-to-date information about events and funding deadlines, please visit the Humanities Council website.
