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Exceptional Faculty
Princeton faculty members are all exceptional scholars in their disciplines who are expected to teach as well as engage in research. Faculty work closely with undergraduates in the supervision of junior year independent work and senior theses.
Tom Griffiths
Psychology, Computer Science, Princeton Lab for AI
Griffiths’ research explores how studying AI can help us understand human cognition, and vice versa. His new book, “The Laws of Thought,” tells the story of using mathematics to explain how we think.
Tina Campt
Art & Archaeology, Lewis Center for the Arts
An innovative scholar of visual culture and a founder of Black European Studies, Campt explores the tactile and sonic registers of images and contemporary art. She fosters collaborative creative expression as director of Princeton Atelier.
Arvind Narayanan
Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy
Narayanan studies the societal impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Anu Ramaswami
Civil and Environmental Engineering, PIIRS, HMEI
Ramaswami, who also leads the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, pioneered the science of sustainable urban infrastructure systems and its translation to policy-making.
Elizabeth Ellis
History
Ellis works with archives and contemporary Native communities to illuminate lesser-known histories of early Indigenous America.
Frances Lee
Politics and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Lee’s research on Congressional politics and policymaking helps the public and scholars understand and address pressing issues in American democracy.
Agustín Fuentes
Anthropology
Fuentes studies the behavior, biology, and cultures of humans, our evolutionary ancestors, and other species we interact with, offering integrative insights that counter more simplistic narratives of the human experience.
Anne Cheng
English
Cheng’s "Ornamentalism" advances a groundbreaking theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture and was an impetus for the recent Monstrous Beauty exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chika Okeke-Agulu
Art and Archaeology
Okeke-Agulu is a celebrated artist, critic, curator and historian of African and African Diaspora art. He is director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative.
Leonard Wantchekon
Politics
2023 Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin.
Howard Stone
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Stone's fluid dynamics research connects engineering to chemistry, physics, and biology, with subjects including microdevices, swimming bacteria, flows of polymeric materials and respiratory virus transmission.
Bonnie Bassler
Molecular Biology
Bassler is a pioneer and global leader in discovering the astonishing ways that bacteria communicate. In January, she was awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony.
Sigrid Adriaenssens
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adriaenssens is an engineering innovator, designing lightweight, elegant and resilient structures for sustainable buildings, bridges and other infrastructure.
Marina Rustow
Near Eastern Studies and History
Rustow uses machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval Cairo synagogue.
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