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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

A lit chandelier inside the Princeton University Chapel

Veterans Day observance to be held at the Princeton University Chapel .

The 9 a.m. service on Monday, Nov. 11, will also be livestreamed.

Medievalist William Chester Jordan receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement .

Jordan will also receive the American Historical Society's Award for Scholarly Distinction in January.

Visual arts lecturer Lex Brown and historian Lucas Ramos awarded Rome Prize .

The award supports independent research in the arts and humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Both Princeton recipients are undergraduate alumni.

Helping Democracy Flourish, Across the Aisle
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CSDP brings voices from across the political spectrum into conversation with Princeton social scientists and students. 

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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