Four Princeton faculty members win Guggenheim Fellowships

By the Office of Communications Four Princeton faculty members, representing a range of subjects in the humanities, have received Guggenheim Fellowships. Brooke Holmes, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics, Continue Reading →

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

Author: Harriet Flower, the Andrew Fleming West Professor in Classics Publisher: Princeton University Press, September 2017 The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized Continue Reading →

Professor reflects on growing up undocumented and the power of books

By Jamie Saxon When Dan-el Padilla Peralta was 4, he and his parents left the Dominican Republic and traveled to the United States for better medical care for his mother. Although his father returned to Continue Reading →