Effron Center for the Study of America

Beth Lew-Williams receives Bancroft Prize for distinguished work in American history : Read More Here
Princeton Students in SE to Study Tlingit Art, History : Read More Here
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies : Read More Here
Paul Starr's "American Contradiction" on CNN : Watch on Youtube

Watch Paul Starr discuss his new book "American Contradiction"
What the Dead, the Domestic and the Drawn Can Teach Us : Read the article here

Laura Leibman and the Object Lessons of American Life

Professor Laura Leibman with students in her American Dead and Undead class (AMS 387, REL 374). Photo by Barron Bixler.

Upcoming Events

Photography as a Way of Life: Minor White, Aaron Siskind, and Harry Callahan

Apr 19, 2026

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Princeton University Art Museum

Bad Bunny's America: Panel and Effron Center Welcome Reception

Sep 15, 2026, 4:30 pm

Location

Chancellor Green Rotunda

Jenny’s Worlds: Asian Lives and the Archives of American Empire, Nadine Attewell

Sep 29, 2026, 4:30 pm

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East Pyne Building 010

The Keeper of My Kin, Ada Ferrer

Oct 1, 2026, 4:30 pm

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Chancellor Green Rotunda

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Princeton Holds Third Annual Native American and Indigenous Studies Film Screening and Conversation with "So Surreal: Behind the Masks"

April 1, 2026

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Princeton Students in SE to Study Tlingit Art, History

March 23, 2026

Beth Lew-Williams receives Bancroft Prize for distinguished work in American history

March 19, 2026

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