Professorships

Old Dominion Research Professors

Overview

This program is designed to provide additional research time for Princeton faculty members and to enhance the humanities community more broadly through mentorship, presentations of work in progress, and participation in Humanities Council (and future Humanities Institute) programming and events.

Eligibility and Application

Tenured faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to apply by submitting a curriculum vitae and project proposal (3-4 pages), along with a copy of the leave request submitted to their department and the Dean of the Faculty.  Projects may involve ongoing scholarship or new, exploratory work.

Previous Old Dominion Professors are not eligible to apply.  Appointments are made for a single academic year and may not be spread across two academic years. To be eligible for the professorship, faculty must be eligible for a leave starting in Fall 2027.

Selection and Criteria

The Executive Committee of the Humanities Council evaluates proposals and makes recommendations to the Council Chair and the Dean of the Faculty. In making its recommendations, the committee is mindful not only of the intrinsic merits of the projects but also of the potential convergence among various proposals, the opportunities for intellectual exchange among Old Dominion Research Professors, and the candidate’s potential for sustaining cross-disciplinary discussion on campus during the professorship year.

Questions may be addressed to humanities@princeton.edu. Applications must be submitted through the Council’s online portal by March 1, 2027.

Application Form

Behrman Professors in the Humanities

Overview

Behrman Professors are faculty of tenured rank who are appointed for a three-year term to teach in the Program in Humanistic Studies and to ensure continuity in our academic program and among our undergraduates. In recognition of the commitment of three continuous years to the program, Behrman Professors are guaranteed a semester’s leave at the end of the three years.

Eligibility

Humanities and humanistically-oriented faculty of tenured rank are eligible to apply.

Program requirements

Year 1
The new Behrman Professor will teach in either fall or spring in HUM 216-219, as part of a six-member faculty team, receiving summer salary in the amount of $7500 for preparing a team-taught HUM course for the first time.

Year 2
The Behrman Professor will coordinate for HUM 216-219, teaching in both fall and spring semesters. Because of the higher commitment in this year, the Professor will receive a 1/9th summer salary either before or after the second year.

Year 3
In the third year, the Professor will co-teach a capstone seminar for the minor in Humanistic Studies, with an additional $7500 course-development grant for a new team-taught course. The capstone seminar requires team teaching with another regular faculty member at Princeton from a different discipline/department.

How to apply

Applications should comprise:

• a statement of interest
• a curriculum vitae
• teaching evaluations
• a list of courses taught
• a brief email from the chair of the applicant’s home department, confirming that the department can release the faculty member on the terms of the professorship

Application Form

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