Paul Benacerraf, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died on Jan. 13, 2025. He was 93.
Category Archives: Faculty
Edward “Ted” James Champlin
Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of cardiac arrest at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington NJ, on Dec. 23, 2024. He was 76.
Victor Brombert
Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature, scholar of French literature, and World War II “Ritchie Boy,” died on Nov. 26, 2024. He was 101.
Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles, Princeton’s Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, died in Sassenheim, the Netherlands, on Sept. 25. He was 89 years old.
John Wilmerding
John Wilmerding, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, died June 6 in New York City. He was 86.
Howard Francis Taylor
Howard Francis Taylor, an emeritus professor of sociology and a pioneering scholar on race and intelligence testing, died on March 21, 2023. He was 83.
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, professor of psychology and public affairs, emeritus, and a Nobel laureate in economics whose groundbreaking behavioral science research changed our understanding of how people think and decide, died on March 27. He was 90.
Arno Mayer
Arno Mayer, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Emeritus, and an esteemed historian of modern Europe and diplomacy, died in a senior residence in Princeton, N.J. on Dec. 18, 2023. He was 97.
Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, and a social and cultural historian, died of cancer at her home in Toronto on Oct. 21, 2023. She was 94.
John Wilson
John Wilson, the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Emeritus, died of complications from COVID-19 on Oct. 5, 2023, at home in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He was 90.