Each year, the Council welcomes distinguished scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners as Long-Term and Short-Term Visiting Fellows, who enrich the University community through their work in and beyond the classroom.
Long-Term Visiting Fellows, who are “in residence” at the University, teach or co-teach a course for a full semester. These fellows may be nominated by chairs of humanities departments with support of directors of interdisciplinary humanities programs.
Short-Term Visiting Fellows visit the University campus for three to five days, where they lecture and participate in class discussions, colloquia, performances, workshops, or other informal events within their nominating departments. These fellows may be nominated by chairs of humanities departments or faculty directors of interdisciplinary humanities programs
Fellows selected this year will take up their residencies in the 2027-28 academic year, the inaugural year of the new Princeton Humanities Institute. The Humanities Council is working in close consultation with the Princeton Humanities Initiative on the selection and administration of these awards.
The Visiting Fellows Program was created with a gift from Frank E. Taplin, Jr. ’37 in honor of Whitney J. Oates, the distinguished classicist and founder of the Humanities Council. In addition to Whitney J. Oates Fellows, the program also hosts Belknap Fellows in Arts and Letters, Stewart Fellows in Religion, and Edward T. Cone ’39 *42 Fellows, named in memory of the eminent composer, musicologist, professor and benefactor of the arts and humanities.
Visit our Visiting Fellowships page for information about deadlines and procedures.
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.
Old Dominion Professors are appointed for a term of one year, one semester of which would otherwise have been devoted to a regular sabbatical leave. The Professorship extends that leave to one full year.
For more information about this program and other professorships from the Council, visit our Professorships and Fellowships site.
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.
Learn more about eligibility and upcoming deadlines on the Council’s Research Professorships webpage.
Supported by the Virginia and Richard Stewart Memorial Fund, Stewart Fellows are distinguished visiting scholars of world religion. Fellows are nominated by department chairs through the Council’s Long-Term and Short-Term Visiting Fellows program.
These notable visitors, including writers, reporters, podcasters, and filmmakers, bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the Program in Journalism, helping students to tell stories of impact and navigate the changing media landscape. Each visiting professor teaches an intensive undergraduate course in journalism or creative nonfiction within the Humanities Council, the academic home of the long-running Ferris and McGraw Seminars. Learn more about the Program in Journalism and read about our current visitors and faculty.
Established in 1999 by a gift from the late charter trustee Lloyd Cotsen and the Humanities Council’s leadership, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton offers outstanding scholars with a recent Ph.D. the opportunity to enhance their teaching and research over a three-year term. Fellows meet regularly for formal and informal discussions, seminars, workshops and reading groups to pursue new knowledge and understanding within and across disciplines.
The Council supports a number of associate research scholars and lecturers in the Program in Humanistic Studies, the Center for Digital Humanities, the Department of Religion, and the Program in South Asian Studies.
