PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

Graduate Academic Program

The Program in Hellenic Studies
The Program in Hellenic Studies, under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities and with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, promotes the interdisciplinary study of the Greek world, from antiquity to the present. It offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in Hellenic Studies, as well as graduate seminars on the Classical tradition and in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. The Program provides a stimulating intellectual environment for faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, writers-in-residence, and visiting research fellows.

Course of Study
Our graduate students combine advanced training in their home department with additional coursework (graduate seminars, reading courses, or tutorials) in post-Classical Greek Studies and a dissertation on some aspect of the Classical tradition, or a Byzantine or Modern Greek topic. Graduate students enroll in one of Princeton's departments and are expected to satisfy all the departmental requirements for the Ph.D. degree before undertaking their dissertation research. Students follow an individual course of study approved by their home department, in consultation with Hellenic Studies faculty.

The study of modern Greek literature may be pursued through either the Department of Comparative Literature or the Department of Classics.

The Department of History or the Department of Near Eastern Studies may accommodate students with an interest in Byzantine, early modern, or modern Greek history.

Other cooperating departments include: Anthropology, Architecture, Art and Archaeology, Economics, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sociology, and the Woodrow Wilson School.

The Program in Hellenic Studies also collaborates closely with the Program in the Ancient World, the Program in Judaic Studies, the Group for the Study of Late Antiquity, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Committee on Renaissance Studies.

Degrees
Students receive their Ph.D. degree in the academic discipline of the department in which they are enrolled. Princeton does not offer a Ph.D. degree in Byzantine or Modern Greek Studies.

Classics students who also study Byzantine or modern Greek language, literature, history, or culture may enroll in the Ph.D. Program in Classical and Hellenic Studies administered through the Department of Classics in cooperation with the Program in Hellenic Studies.

Faculty
Princeton faculty connected to or collaborating with the Program in Hellenic Studies include:
Nancy Bermeo (Politics: Southern European politics)
M. Christine Boyer (Architecture)
Patricia Fortini Brown (Art and Archaeology: Renaissance Art)
Marina Brownlee (Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures: Comparative Literature)
Peter Brown (History: Late antique and early Byzantine history)
W.A.P. Childs (Art and Archaeology: Classical archaeology)
Esther da Costa Meyer (Art and Archaeology: modern architecture)
Slobodan Ćurčić (Art and Archaeology: Late antique and Byzantine art and architecture; Balkan architecture)
Wolfgang Danspeckgruber (Woodrow Wilson School: European Studies, International Relations)
Dimitri Gondicas (Classics: modern Greek language and culture)
Anthony Grafton (History: Renaissance studies; Classical tradition)
Molly Greene (History and Hellenic Studies: Ottoman history; early modern Mediterranean, Balkan and Greek history)
Constanze Güthenke (Classics)
Marc Domingo Gygax (Classics)
John Haldon (History and Hellenic Studies)
M. Sükrü Hanioğlu (Near Eastern Studies: Late Ottoman, Balkan, and Turkish history)
Martha Himmelfarb (Religion: Early Christianity)
Norman Itzkowitz (Near Eastern Studies: Ottoman and Balkan History)
Peter Jeffery (Music: Medieval chant)
Thomas Leisten (Art and Archaeology: Islamic Art and Architecture)
Heath Lowry (Near Eastern Studies: Late Byzantine and Ottoman history)
AnnMarie Luijendijk (Religion)
Nino Luraghi (Classics)
Alexander Nehamas (Philosophy and Comparative Literature: modern Greek literature)
Josiah Ober (Classics; political theory)
Elaine Pagels (Religion: Early Christianity)
Emmanuel Papoutsakis (Near Eastern Studies)
Efthymia Rentzou (French and Italian)
Albert Raboteau (Religion)
P. Adams Sitney (Visual Arts)
Christian Wildberg (Classics: Late antique philosophy)
Froma Zeitlin (Classics)

Research staff:
Alan Stahl (Firestone Library: Numismatics)
Donald Skemer (Firestone Library: Medieval Manuscripts)

Associated faculty at other institutions in the Princeton area:
Glen Bowersock (Institute for Advanced Study: Late antique and early Byzantine history)
Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study: Western medieval and Byzantine history)
Oleg Grabar (Institute for Advanced Study: Islamic and Byzantine art)
Kathleen McVey (Princeton Theological Seminary: Eastern Orthodox Christianity)
Paul Rorem (Princeton Theological Seminary: Eastern Orthodox Christianity Patristics)

Emeriti faculty:
William Branson (Economics)
Richard Burgi (Slavic Languages and Literatures: modern Greek theater)
Ahmet Cakmak (Civil Engineering: Byzantine structures)
John Gager (Religion: Early Christianity)
John Keaney (Classics: Byzantine education)
Edmund Keeley (English and Creative Writing: modern Greek literature; translation)
Suzanne Keller (Sociology)
Kenneth Levy (Music: Western medieval and Byzantine music)

Program Visitors
Each year the Program invites and supports a significant number of post-doctoral fellows, visiting research fellows, and writers-in-residence, as well as short-term fellows and artists. Visitors participate actively in the intellectual life of the Program and meet Hellenic Studies faculty and students, both formally and informally.

Campus Activities
The Program sponsors a broad range of campus activities, including the weekly Hellenic Studies workshop where visitors and graduate students present their work-in-progress. There are also regular Modern Greek seminars, Byzantine seminars, lectures, colloquia, exhibitions, and concerts.

Research Resources
The Princeton University libraries have outstanding collections in the Classical, Byzantine, and Modern Greek fields. There are special strengths in Classical literature, history, art, archaeology, and philosophy; Byzantine history, literature, art and architecture; Byzantine manuscripts and coins; modern Greek literature and history; Anglo-American literary philhellenism; rare books on travel to Greece and the Levant; and significant archival and manuscript collections on 20th-century United States-Greek relations, as well as modern Greek literature, theater, history, culture, and politics; The Art Museum houses important collections of ancient Greek, Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine art. The Index of Christian Art is a comprehensive resource for the study of western medieval and Byzantine iconography. Students also have access to the distinguished collections of the Princeton Theological Seminary and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Graduate Students
Currently over fifty graduate students are concentrating in some aspect of the Classical tradition or Byzantine or modern Greek culture. They are enrolled in such departments as Classics, Comparative Literature, History, Religion, Art and Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Music, Architecture, Politics, Economics, and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Many of our graduate students have won major research fellowships (Gennadius, Bliss, NEH, Dumbarton Oaks, Fulbright-Hayes, Onassis, Mary Isabel Sibley, Social Science Research Council, Whiting, Center for Human Values) and are employed by academic institutions in the United States or overseas.

Fellowships
Almost all graduate students at Princeton receive full fellowship support for the entire length of their studies. The Program in Hellenic Studies offers Stanley J. Seeger graduate fellowships to students whose work relates to the study of ancient, medieval, or modern Greece. Students who are Greek nationals or of Greek extraction are eligible for J.F. Costopoulos Foundation graduate fellowships or prizes awarded by the Program. Candidates are automatically considered for these fellowships as their graduate applications are reviewed.

Graduate students in Hellenic Studies are encouraged to pursue study and research in Greece with the support of Stanley J. Seeger summer fellowships administered by the Program.

Inquiries
Students interested in a Ph.D. degree in a humanities or social science discipline with a focus on Byzantium or Modern Greece are invited to get in touch with the Program in Hellenic Studies in order to explore whether their academic needs can be met at Princeton.

Please direct all inquiries to Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, U.S.A., telephone: (609) 258-3339, fax: (609) 258-2137, e-mail: gondicas@princeton.edu and hellenic@princeton.edu, web site: http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/

Inquiries about specific Ph.D. programs should be addressed to the relevant departments.

Applications and general information about graduate study at Princeton can be obtained from the Graduate School, Princeton University, P.O. Box 270, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-0270, U.S.A.,
web site: http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/g/

Listing of all present Hellenic Studies graduate students.

Please contact Carolyn Hoeschele (carolynh@princeton.edu) if you do not wish to have your name listed here.

Last Updated 5/1/09