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Robert “Bob” Tignor, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of British colonialism and its aftermath, world history, and the modern histories of Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya, died on Dec. 9, 2022.
Four Princeton faculty members awarded NEH grants Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications Dec. 21, 2020 9:24 a.m. Four Princeton faculty members have received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Alison Isenberg, professor of history, received a $30,000 grant for research and writing “Uprisings: The Impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination and the Case of Trenton, New Jersey," a book on unrest in Trenton, New Jersey, in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history, receiv...