Princeton University

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. 

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.

Ellis works with archives and contemporary Native communities to illuminate lesser-known histories of early Indigenous America.

Lee’s research on Congressional politics and policymaking helps the public and scholars understand and address pressing issues in American democracy.

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.

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.

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.

2023 Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin. 

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.

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.

Adriaenssens is an engineering innovator, designing lightweight, elegant and resilient structures for sustainable buildings, bridges and other infrastructure.

Rustow uses machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval Cairo synagogue.