Age of intolerance?
Was the medieval period an age of intolerance? Or are scholars ascribing modern conceptions of race to the peoples of the past? Continue Reading →
Category: Staff researcher
Magic Grant sparks interactive map of treasures
Mapping Eastern Europe in the 13th–17th Centuries offers simple and intuitive engagement with the art and history of the culturally rich, yet often enigmatic and neglected, territories of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains and early modern Russia. Continue Reading →
Race and policing in America
Political scientists Jonathan Mummolo and Dean Knox research the role of race in police-civilian encounters. Continue Reading →
Engine of cosmic evolution: Eve Ostriker looks under the hood
By Catherine Zandonella Outside Eve Ostriker’s office door stretches the universe, dotted with orange galaxies against the black backdrop of space. The mural lines the hallway in Princeton’s astrophysical sciences building, where it inspires Ostriker Continue Reading →
Treasure in ancient trash
By Kevin McElwee Thomas Conlan fiddled with a strange, brownish-black rock on his desk. For centuries, people had considered the piece of rubble worthless, but it is priceless to Conlan’s research. The lumpy rock is Continue Reading →