Research

In Short: Digital Humanities Project Catalogs Understudied African Texts

Q&A: Historian Keith Wailoo on How Pandemics Change Everything

‘The current pandemic is frightfully familiar,’ Wailoo says

Andrew Guess’s Research on Social Media Turns Up Surprises

Evidence is lacking to prove dubious online content helped sway the 2016 election, Guess says

Professor Adji Bousso Dieng Is Out to Change the World With AI

From Senegal, Dieng says her experiences instilled a sense of purpose that informs her research

Professor Shamus Khan Examines the Role Elites Play in Inequality

Shamus Khan’s research unveils the effects of culture, gender, and advantage

Coleen Murphy Researches How Humans Can Live Longer, Better Lives

Professor Elizabeth Margulis Investigates Why Music Affects Us

‘What is a mind? What is music?’ Margulis asks in her research

New Faculty Books

Mozilla and Princeton Center Ask Internet Users to Donate Their Data

The research platform seeks ‘a safer, more transparent, and more equitable internet’

Q&A: Agustín Fuentes on the Pandemic and Human Connection

‘Humans have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years in concert with others’

Isadora Moura Mota Unearths the Fight for Freedom in Brazil

Curriculum Vitae: Professor Edmund White Blazed a Trail in Gay Literature

His novels and memoirs are ‘funny, sexy, passionate, and gorgeously written’

Professors Advocate Free —and Controversial — Speech in Academia

The Journal of Controversial Ideas provides a home for contentious scholarship

Faculty Books

Professor Rachael Delue Explores the Intersection of Art and Science

Elena Araoz Leads Research on Socially Distant Theater

Five online works in the project stretch the limits of imagination and tech for online performances

Faculty Book: Linda Colley Considers the Constitution

Several factors ‘contributed to the rise of constitutions, but the main one was a dramatic increase in ... warfare.’

Gallery: Nine Volumes Document China’s Dunhuang Caves

‘U.S. Crisis Monitor’ Tracks Political Strife, Seeks Peace

‘Jan. 6 was not the beginning. There were so many signs,’ says Shannon Hiller *15

COVID-19: Research Snapshots

New Faculty Books

Faculty Book: Anthony Grafton On the Delicate Art of Assembling Knowledge

Curriculum Vitae: Jeanne Altmann’s ‘Twisty’ Path to Baboon Research

Her perseverance and insight changed the field of biology

Examining How We Misjudge the Emotional Pain of Poverty

Nathan Cheek, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology, has identified what he calls a “thick-skin bias”