Media and Modernity Academic Year 2023 – 2024 Jump To: Jump To: General Information Address S-110 Architecture Building Phone 609-258-3741 Website Program in Media and Modernity Interdepartmental Graduate Certificate Program Program Offerings: Certificate Department for program: Architecture Affiliated departments: Spanish and Portuguese Art and Archaeology English German Director of Graduate Studies: Beatriz Colomina Irene Small Graduate Program Administrator: Iason Stathatos Overview The Program in Media and Modernity promotes the interdisciplinary study of the unique cultural formations that came to prominence during the last two centuries, with special attention paid to the interplay between culture and technology. The program centers on architecture, art, film, photography, literature, philosophy, music, history, and all forms of electronic media from radio to video and information technologies. The program draws on the rich human and material resources that exist at Princeton and provides a focus and forum for research and teaching in the spaces, texts, and media of modernity. The program offers a graduate certificate and collaborative teaching, learning, and research opportunities centered on team-taught seminars and cross-disciplinary colloquia. Students may not gain admission to the University through the Program in Media and Modernity. They may affiliate with the program and earn a certificate from it after having been admitted through a degree-granting department. The certificate does not appear on the official transcript. Program Offerings Certificate Program Offering: Certificate This certificate does not appear on transcripts. Program description The Graduate Certificate in Media+Modernity is conferred each year to Princeton University graduate students that fulfill the requirements listed below. Ph.D. students may obtain the M+M certificate by fulfilling the following requirements: 1. enrollment in at least three seminars cross-listed with MOD (Media and Modernity). 2. regular attendance at M+M events held during the semester. 3. participation in a dissertation colloquium led by the program's directors. Masters students may obtain the M+M certificate by fulfilling the following requirements: 1. enrollment in at least three seminars cross-listed with MOD (Media and Modernity). 2. regular attendance at M+M events held during the semester. Students qualifying for the certificate should send the following information (in a single document) to [email protected] no later than May 1 for awarding of the certificate in that academic year: a) Full name, department, program, year, expected date of graduation, contact email; b) Name and contact email of primary advisor; c) A list of courses fulfilling the qualifications for the Certificate, as listed above. Each of these should include all course numbers under which the class was listed, course titles, instructor names, descriptions (as listed on the Course Offerings website of the University) and the grade option for which each class was taken; d) Any further information that might be useful and is not covered by the points above. Faculty Director Beatriz Colomina (co-director) Devin A. Fore (co-director) Executive Committee Basile C. Baudez, Art and Archaeology Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies Beatriz Colomina, Architecture Brigid Doherty, German S.E. Eisterer, Architecture Devin A. Fore, German Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology Rubén Gallo, Spanish & Portuguese Sylvia Lavin, Architecture Thomas Y. Levin, German V. Mitch McEwen, Architecture Paul Nadal, English Spyros Papapetros, Architecture Rachel L. Price, Spanish & Portuguese Irene V. Small, Art and Archaeology Gavin Steingo, Music Associated Faculty Bridget Alsdorf, Art and Archaeology M. Christine Boyer, Architecture Tina M. Campt, Art and Archaeology Jay Cephas, Architecture Zahid R. Chaudhary, English Steven Chung, East Asian Studies Angela N. Creager, History Rachael Z. DeLue, Art and Archaeology Elizabeth Diller, Architecture S.E. Eisterer, Architecture Diana J. Fuss, English Mario I. Gandelsonas, Architecture Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature Brooke A. Holmes, Classics Monica Huerta, English Meredith A. Martin, English Michael Meredith, Architecture Paul Nadal, English Mónica Ponce de León, Architecture Jesse A. Reiser, Architecture Efthymia Rentzou, French & Italian Paul E. Starr, Sociology Jeffrey Whetstone, Lewis Center for the Arts Carolyn Yerkes, Art and Archaeology For a full list of faculty members and fellows please visit the department or program website.
