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Our Faculty

At the Head of the Class

Princeton faculty are renowned leaders in their fields, extraordinary teachers and dedicated mentors.

Faculty Profiles

June Huh
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Mathematics. Awarded the 2022 Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, in recognition of his work in combinatorics.

Kristina Olson
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Psychology. A MacArthur Fellow and NSF emerging scientist award winner, Professor Kristina Olson is a scholar of how gender identity develops in children and how children think about social groups.

Eddie Glaude Jr.
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African American Studies and Religion. Author of "Democracy in Black," and scholar at the intersections of race, politics and religion.

Amaney Jamal
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Politics. Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, and explorer of Middle East politics, gender and Islam.

Janet Currie
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Economics and Public and International Affairs. Expert on health and wellbeing, and explorer of the building blocks of children's success.

Clifford Brangwynne
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Chemical and biological engineering. His research has changed how scientists understand cellular organization by linking biology with materials science and engineering,

Facts & Figures

  • 1,315

    Faculty, including full time, part time and visiting

  • 78%

    Tenured professorial faculty

  • 1,740

    Research funding awards

  • 5:1

    Student to faculty ratio

  • 32

    Faculty and staff Nobel Prize winners

Faculty in the News

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Academics

New Jersey community college educators convene at Princeton to share ideas, build partnerships for the humanities .

The event, the first in a series, was hosted by Princeton’s new Humanities Initiative and the Program for Community College Engagement.

Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist of religion and ‘intellectual giant,’ dies at 95 .

“A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology department from 1983 to 1988.

Six Princeton faculty members and arts fellows, 9 alumni receive Guggenheim Fellowships .

This year’s faculty and arts fellow recipients are Maria Chudnovsky, Thomas Conlan, yuniya edi kwon, Rhodri Lewis, Carolyn Rouse, and Peter S. Shin. Five graduate and four undergraduate alumni received Guggenheims.

‘On the Fringe’ by Dean of the College Michael D. Gordin named Princeton Pre-read .

The book uses history and philosophy to explore how to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Members of the incoming Class of 2029 will read it this summer as part of their introduction to the liberal arts tradition that awaits them.

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The Quantum Future: Meeting the Moment

Princeton’s quantum scientists and engineers are working to manipulate the strange behaviors of particles — mindbending realities like quantum entanglement and superposition — to advance knowledge and produce technologies in fields as far-ranging as medicine, weather forecasting, finance, astronomy and cryptography. Our expanded Quantum Initiative and new Ph.D. program carry forward a spirit of discovery on our campus that reaches back to Einstein.

 

Follow our latest breakthroughs and meet our Forward Thinkers