Princeton University

The Global Scholars Program enables the University to recruit stellar scholars from outside the United States into recurring, multi-year teaching appointments at Princeton in all disciplines and regional studies programs. The scholars are incorporated into departments’ and programs’ curricula and events, and engage in scholarly exchange with Princeton faculty and students. These appointments bring vital new voices from abroad to Princeton departments and classrooms to inaugurate and sustain durable ties between Princeton and academic centers of excellence around the world.

For information on nominating a scholar, download the call for Global Scholar Nominations (.pdf)

The Council for International Teaching and Research is pleased to announce and welcome four international leaders in the fields of Philosophy and History of medieval and early-modern thought, Atmospheric chemistry mechanisms and the impact air pollution on public health, Quantitative and computational neuroscience and biophysics, and Eastern European history and political theory who have been appointed as Princeton Global Scholars. They join nine Global Scholars currently participating in the program who will return to campus during 2012-13. Information about the Global Scholars and their research interests can be found below.

• Dominik Perler (.pdf), Departments of Philosophy, Religion, and Program in Medieval Stuides.
• Tong Zhu (.pdf), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Woodrow Wilson School, the Princeton Environmental Institute. Tung Global Scholar.
• Adam Michnik (.pdf), Appointment for 2012-13. Department of History, European Politics and Society Program, Woodrow Wilson School
• Rava Azeredo da Silveira (.pdf),  Appointment 2013-14. Princeton Neuroscience Institute.

2011-12 Appointments

• Shige Peng (.pdf), Departments of Mathematics; Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Tung Global Scholar.
• Rafael Rojas (.pdf), Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures.
• Lilia Schwarcz(.pdf), Department of History.
• Jisi Wang (.pdf), Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, Woodrow Wilson School. Tung Global Scholar.
• Slavoj Zizek (.pdf), Department of English.
• Donnacha Dennehy (.pdf), Appointment 2012-13. Department of Music.

2010-11 Appointments

•  Jeremy Farrar (.pdf), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Woodrow Wilson School. Tung Global Scholar.
•  Giacomo Luciani (.pdf), Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI); Woodrow Wilson School.

2009-10 Appointments

• Takao Someya (.pdf) will reside in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Tung Global Scholar.
• Yasushi Suto (.pdf) will visit in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. Tung Global Scholar.
• Zhaoguang Ge (.pdf), Department of East Asian Studies. Tung Global Scholar.