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The Faculty of the Freshman Seminars in the Residential Colleges

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Lucia Allais, Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Architecture; Behrman-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows
FRS 164, What’s the Plan? Space as a Medium

Bridget Alsdorf, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology
FRS 142, The Artist as Idea—From Leonardo to Warhol

Peter Andolfatto, Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology and the Lewis-Singler Institute for Integrative Genomics
FRS 174, Ancestry, Genetics and Medicine

Shlomo Angel, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
FRS 117, Sprawl: Historical and Global Perspectives
 
Oliver Arnold, Associate Professor of English
FRS 114, "Bleed in Sport": Theater, Sacrifice, and Culture

James Axtell, Lecturer with the Rank of Professor of History
FRS 107, Going Back: The History of Princeton University

B

Robert Bagley, Professor of Art and Archaeology
FRS 103, Metals and Art

Margaret Beissinger, Research Scholar and Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures
FRS 155, Romani Culture in Russia and East Europe

Wallace Best, Professor of Religion and African American Studies
FRS 170, The American Sermon

Mark Burstein, Executive Vice President
FRS 125, In the Service of All Nations? Elite Universities, Public Policy, and the Common Good

C

Zahid Chaudhary, Assistant Professor of English
FRS 161, Magical Realism

Alan Chimacoff, Lecturer in Architecture
FRS 113, Eye of the Tiger: Reading Buildings

Ze’eva Cohen, Professor of Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts
FRS 163, Body and Spirit: A Comparative Approach to Sacred Dance

Jean-Christophe de Swaan, Lecturer in Economics
FRS 121, Hedge Funds: Their Purpose, Strategies, and Social Value

D

James Diamond, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and the Program in Judaic Studies
FRS 128, The Book of Genesis

James Dun, Lecturer in History
FRS 102, Revolutions and the Era of American Independence

Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology
FRS 139, The Ghetto

E

Christopher Eisgruber, Provost; Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values
FRS 125, In the Service of All Nations? Elite Universities, Public Policy, and the Common Good

Thomas Espenshade, Professor of Sociology
FRS 153, Race, Class, and the Selective College Experience

F

Harold Feiveson, Senior Research Policy Analyst, Woodrow Wilson School and the Program on Science and Global Security
FRS 157, Dilemmas in Intercollegiate and Professional Athletics

Michael Flower, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Classics
FRS 135, History and Memory: Inventing the Past, Constructing the Present

G

Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English
FRS 158, Literature, Law, and Human Rights

Ana Maria Goldani, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Sociology
FRS 160, American Families in Comparative Perspective

Charles Gross, Professor of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute
FRS 116, Neuroethics: The Intersection of Neuroscience with Social and Ethical Issues

Irena Gross, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures
FRS 138, Children and War

H

Christopher Hailey, Lecturer in Music
FRS 109, Music and the Holocaust: Culture, Identity, and Ideology

Caroline Harris, Curator, Educational and Academic Programs, Princeton University Art Museum
FRS 123, Behind the Scenes: Inside the Princeton University Art Museum

Patricia Hoffbauer, Lecturer in Dance and the Lewis Center for the Arts
FRS 162, Bodies in Cultural Landscapes

Brooke Holmes, Assistant Professor of Classics
FRS 168, The Charms of Nature: Pastoral Poetry and Poetics in Greece, Rome, and Beyond

William Howarth, Professor of English, Emeritus
FRS 143, The Literature of Place and Travel

K

Laura Kahn, Research Health Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School and Program in Science and Global Security
FRS 124, When Cows Go Crazy: The Inextricable Links between Human and Animal Health

Deborah Kaple, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Sociology
FRS 129, The Soviet Gulag

Joshua Katz, Professor of Classics; Director, Program in Linguistics
FRS 115, Wordplay: A Wry Plod from Babel to Scrabble

Erika Kiss, Lecturer in the University Center for Human Values
FRS 131, Can Virtue Be Taught? (Introduction to the Philosophy of Education)

Karl Kusserow, Associate Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum
FRS 144, Inside Out: Setting and Interior Space in the Making and Interpreting of Art and Literature

L

Christina Lee, Associate Research Scholar, History
FRS 133, The Virgin Mary in the Hispanic World

Natasha Lee, Assistant Professor of French and Italian; Laurence S. Rockefeller University Preceptor
FRS 104, The Literature and Politics of Encounter

Michael Lemonick, Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences
FRS 120, Life on Mars—Or Maybe Not

Russell Leo, Fellow in the Society of Fellows; Lecturer in English
FRS 171, “Something wicked this way comes”: Witchcraft, Belief, and Agency in Early Modern Literature

Thomas Levin, Associate Professor of German
FRS 119, Cinema and Philosophy: An Introduction to Media Theory

Michael Littman, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
FRS 108, Art and Science of Motorcycle Design

Hendrik Lorenz, Associate Pofessor of Philosophy
FRS 172, A Survey of Plato's Republic

M

Burton Malkiel, Chemical Bank Chairman’s Professor of Economics
FRS 147, The Stock Market

Adam Maloof, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
FRS 145, Earth’s Changing Surface and Climate

Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Professor of French and Italian
FRS 118, History and Cinema: Fascism in Film

Meredith Martin, Assistant Professor of English
FRS 127, Poetry and Its Public

Denise Mauzerall, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
FRS 136, Science and Policy of Global Environmental Issues

Hugo Meyer, Professor of Art and Archaeology
FRS 134, Political, Allegorical, and Mythical Narrative Cycles in Roman Art

Zia Mian, Research Scientist, Woodrow Wilson School and the Program on Science and Global Security
FRS 141, Life in a Nuclear-Armed World

Ralf Michaels, Visiting Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs
FRS 112, The Globalization of Domestic Courts

Lee Mitchell, Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres; Professor of English
FRS 140, Willa Cather and Company

Anne Morel-Kraepiel, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in Chemistry
FRS 122, The Everglades Today and Tomorrow: Global Change and the Impact of Human Activities on the Biosphere

N

Guy Nordenson, Professor of Architecture
FRS 148, Design, Craft, and Ethical Value

Gabriela Nouzeilles, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
FRS 165, Borges for Beginners

O

Chika Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies
FRS 151, Art and the Lifecycle in Africa 

P

Janice Paran, Lecturer in Theater and the Lewis Center for the Arts
FRS 152, Backstage Dramas: Survival Strategies in the American Theater

Pierre Piroué, Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Emeritus
FRS 106, Sound, Music, and ... Physics

R

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
FRS 105, Water: Keystone for Sustainable Development

Noliwe Rooks, Associate Director, Center for African American Studies
FRS 154, Our Struggling Schools: Race, Culture, and Urban Education

Neil Rudenstine, President Emeritus of Harvard University; Provost Emeritus; Professor of English, Emeritus
FRS 137, 20th-Century Poems and Poets: Politics, War, Religion, and Art

Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Program in Judaic Studies
FRS 173, Tolerance and Its Discontents: The Origins and Limits of a Political and Religious Virtue

S

Eli Salzberger, Visiting Fellow, Program in Law and Public Affairs
FRS 132, What Can the Science of Economics Teach Us about the Theory of the State?

Lalitha Sankar, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electrical Engineering
FRS 166, The Information Revolution: Insights into Technology, Language, and Biology

Volker Schröder, Associate Professor of French and Italian
FRS 146, Into the Woods! What Disney Didn’t Tell You about Fairy Tales

Paul Sigmund, Professor of Politics, Emeritus
FRS 150, Reform and Revolution in Chile

Frederik Simons, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
FRS 145, Earth’s Changing Surface and Climate

Diane Snyder, Lecturer in Politics
FRS 169, The Rest of the Story: The Six O’Clock News, National Security, Intelligence, and You

Anna Stilz, Assistant Professor of Politics
FRS 130, Indigenous Peoples and Historic Injustice

Susan Sugarman, Professor of Psychology
FRS 149, Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life

T

Anne Treisman, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
FRS 159, Consciousness: Brain and Mind

Edwin Turner, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
FRS 120, Life on Mars—Or Maybe Not

V

Susan Killian VanderKam, Lecturer in Chemistry
FRS 176, From the Bronz Age to the Plastic Age: A History of Chemistry through Experimental Discovery

Alexandra Vazquez, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
FRS 167, Music of the Americas: From Tango to Bossa Nova and Beyond

W

Kathryn Wagner, Lecturer in Chemistry
FRS 156, The Chemistry of Magic

Z

Ivan Zaknic, Visiting Professor of Architecture
FRS 126, Architects in Quest of the Ideal City

Nino Zchomelidse, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology
FRS 110, Transformations of an Empire. Power, Religion, and the Arts of Medieval Rome

Eileen Zerba, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
FRS 101, Signals, Yardsticks, and Tipping Points of Global Warming and Ocean Environments