Since 2003, through the establishment of the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron ’72 Visiting Professorship in the Environment and the Humanities, PEI has forged ties between environmental studies and the humanities and social sciences at Princeton. Working cooperatively with leadership in Princeton’s humanities disciplines, PEI identifies and appoints accomplished and emerging scholars whose academic work is at the intersection of a traditional humanities discipline and environmental studies.Recent visitors have had backgrounds in English, religion, philosophy, political science, and the performing arts.
Their scholarship has focused on topics including environmental literature, religion and ecology, environmental justice, climate ethics, climate change, and biodiversity. Barron Visiting Professorship appointments are made jointly in PEI and the academic department that most appropriately represents the appointee’s disciplinary background.
2019-2020 Barron Visiting Professor
Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities
Past Barron Visiting Professors
2018 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Ashley Dawson
2017 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2016 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor of Art History & American Studies and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2015 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor of Architecture and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2015 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor of Anthropology and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2014 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Guest Artist at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
2012–2013 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities and Visiting Professor of English and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2012-2013 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities and Visiting Lecturer in Religion and the Princeton Environmental Institute
2012-2013 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities and Visiting Lecturer in Religion and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Steve Cosson
2009-2010 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Guest Artist at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
Michael Friedman
2009-2010 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Guest Artist at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University
David Schlosberg
2008-2009 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Professor at the University Center for Human Values
Kimberly K. Smith
2007-2008 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities and Visiting Associate Professor in the Center for African American Studies
