Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies

Director

Gyan Prakash

Executive Secretary

Michael Gordin

Executive Committee

Jeremy I. Adelman, ex officio

Angela N. H. Creager

Sheldon M. Garon

Michael Gordin

Molly Greene

Stephen M. Kotkin

Susan Naquin

Gyan Prakash

 

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies was established in 1968 to develop a center for historical research at Princeton University and to stimulate intellectual exchange both within the Department of History and between the department and visiting scholars. The center supports the Davis Research Seminar, which gathers together a group of research scholars drawn from both America and abroad around a core of department members, all of whom are working on a common problem. The focus of interest in the seminar changes from time to time. For 2006–07, the topic is Utopia/Dystopia: Historical Conditions of Possibility. The seminar meets most Thursday evenings during the academic year, and is open to all interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from every department. The center is supported by the George Henry Davis 1886 and Shelby Cullom Davis ’30 Fund.