Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, a group of postdoctoral and faculty fellows, is dedicated to promoting innovative interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship and teaching. Each year the Society chooses a new cohort of Cotsen Fellows, recent recipients of the Ph.D. in the humanities and selected social and natural sciences, who are appointed for three-year terms to pursue research and to teach half-time in a home department or program at the University. The Cotsen fellowships were established in 1999 through the generosity of Charter Trustee Lloyd E. Cotsen, an alumnus who has long been a devoted supporter of Princeton.

The Cotsen Fellows are joined by Princeton faculty members who participate fully in the Society as Faculty Fellows.  Meeting regularly for informal and formal discussion, seminars, lectures, and reading groups, the fellows pursue new knowledge within and across disciplines and foster intellectual exchange among the University's undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. With other programs of the Andlinger Center for the Humanities at Princeton, the Society is based in the Joseph Henry House, a historic building at the center of campus named after its designer, the eminent scientist and Princeton professor, Joseph Henry (1797-1878). Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities, serves as the Society's Director; Mary J. Harper is Executive Director.

Director

Susan Stewart

Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities. Professor of English.

Executive Director

Mary Harper

Faculty Fellows

Miguel Centeno	Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Caryl Emerson	A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Professor of Comparative Literature
Denis Feeney	Giger Professor of Latin, Professor of Classics
Michael Gordin	Professor of History. Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies. Director, Fung Global Fellows Program
Molly Greene	Professor of History and Hellenic Studies. Associate Chair, Department of History
AnneMarie Luijendijk	Professor of Religion
Carolyn Rouse	Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies
François Rigolot	Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature. Professor of French and Italian.
Michael Wood	Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Carol Rigolot	Executive Director, Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in French and Italian
Gideon Rosen	Stuart Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Council of the Humanities; Director, Program in Linguistics

Old Dominion SOF Faculty Fellows

João Biehl	Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology. Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy
Alexander Nehamas	(Fall semester) Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities. Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature
Nigel Smith	William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature. Professor of English

Society of Fellows' Staff

Jay Barnes	Computing
Susan Coburn	Office Coordinator
Cass Garner	Department Manager
Penny Stone	Administrative Assistant