Premised on cooperative endeavor and intended to stimulate new and innovative thinking and learning between and across our established academic fields of study, projects should be co-initiated by Princeton faculty from different disciplines or traditions. The Collaboration welcomes inquiries from faculty and graduate students from two or more departments with interests that may extend from antiquity through the early medieval period broadly conceived, up to ca. 1000 CE. Engagement with the exceptional resources in both the Princeton University Library and Art Museum is warmly encouraged.
Premised on cooperative endeavor and intended to stimulate new and innovative thinking and learning between and across our established academic fields of study, projects should be co-initiated by Princeton faculty from different disciplines or traditions. The Collaboration welcomes inquiries from faculty and graduate students from two or more departments with interests that may extend from antiquity through the early medieval period broadly conceived, up to ca. 1000 CE. Engagement with the exceptional resources in both the Princeton University Library and Art Museum is warmly encouraged.
Inquiries or proposals for activities to take place in AY19-20 and 20-21 should be sent to Martin Kern (mkern@princeton.edu), Project Director.
Course Development
The work of the Collaboration is primed for team-teaching that reaches across disciplines. We are enthusiastically seeking proposals that envision new ways to expand existing course offerings.
Summer stipends are available for regular faculty who develop a new, team-taught undergraduate course that will be home-based in the Program in Humanistic Studies. Faculty stipends for summer 2019 are available for the design of 2019-20 courses.
Faculty are further encouraged to develop team-taught graduate courses, though graduate course development is not eligible for summer stipends. However, funds are available to support course activities (trips, exhibits, projects), both undergraduate and graduate.
Proposals for Comparative Antiquity-related courses must have a letter of support from the Chair or Director of the department or program that will serve as the primary designation for the course and provide the FTE. The Humanities Council can sometimes offer partial or full FTE for courses primarily designated HUM (e.g., HUM capstone seminars).
Undergraduate course-related travel
Support for international travel, typically scheduled during either Fall or Spring Break, to enrich undergraduate courses relevant to the Collaboration is available. Costs will be shared with other campus units.
Graduate student (research) workshops
Graduate students from different departments or disciplines are invited to develop a 1-day or 1 ½-day workshop. Applications specifying the theme and including a draft call should be accompanied by an endorsement from the relevant department chair(s).
Faculty/graduate student reading and discussion groups
Faculty members may propose to convene a semester-long biweekly reading and discussion group, typically over lunch, with faculty and graduate students from multiple departments.
Excursions
We welcome suggested destinations for faculty and graduate student day trips to relevant exhibitions or events within the region.
Graduate student (research) support
We are funding graduate students to prepare interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research bibliographies on specific topics. Over time, these bibliographies will be distributed and continuously updated online. Other research proposals toward the furthering of Comparative Antiquity can be considered, keeping in mind that funds cannot be used to assist with individual faculty research.
International interdisciplinary graduate student workshops
We invite topics, formats, or instructional teams for weeklong workshops where several instructors from different fields work with graduate students from both Princeton and around the world. There are opportunities for these intensive events to be held on campus typically in the months of January or June, or during Spring or Fall break. Honoraria, travel and lodging of visiting instructors, student accommodation, meals, and other costs will be shared with other campus units.
Short-term academic visitors
We invite proposals from faculty members who identify two scholars who may be hosted as concurrent short-term visitors. Ideally the identified scholars will be from two different fields. During their residence on campus, events would be structured to put their perspectives in conversation with each other and with Princeton faculty and students.
Long-term academic visitors and postdoctoral fellows
We invite nominations of a distinguished visiting scholar to be hosted for one semester. The visitor would teach, or co-teach with a Princeton faculty member, one course in an area not usually available at Princeton, and further participate in other on-campus activities related to Comparative Antiquity. Alternatively, a yearlong postdoctoral fellow may be hosted who likewise would be engaged in co-teaching. Candidates should have the usual supporting letters and a letter of endorsement from a department or program agreeing to offer the course and guaranteeing the provision of facilities and space.
Collaborative research support for faculty
Two or more Princeton faculty may design a collaborative research project that transcends national cultures, methodologies, or historical periods.
Annual academic conference
Thematically focused, small-scale conferences on Comparative Antiquity may be organized on Princeton’s campus (including the Princeton Athens Center).
Faculty travel seminars
We anticipate conducting international study trips for small groups of faculty to one or more countries/sites of interest, facilitated by individual Princeton faculty in collaboration with local hosts. We invite suggestions to identify locations and connections. Costs will be shared with other units on campus.
