May 2026
The Department of Art & Archaeology’s Barr Ferree Fund for Publishing has awarded grants to 20 projects that applied in the April 2026 application cycle. These awards support a wide range of scholarly and creative work across architecture, the fine arts, music, and related fields, reflecting the fund’s long standing mission to support enhancements to publications and music albums. The projects receiving Barr Ferree grants include:
- Monica Bravo (Art & Archaeology), Silver Pacific: Early Western American Photography and its Mining Economy (Princeton University Press)
- Tina Campt (Art & Archaeology and Lewis Center for the Arts), Art in the Time of Sorrow (The MIT Press)
- Eric Cha-Beach (Music), So Percussion album featuring Kate Stables and Roberto Lange (Nonesuch Records)
- Beatriz Colomina (Architecture), Nosotros las bacterias [Spanish Edition of We the Bacteria] (Arquine)
- Donnacha Dennehy (Music), Limina – Donnacha Dennehy: piano and violin concerti (Nonesuch Records)
- S.E. Eisterer (Architecture), Margarete Schütte‑Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence, 1918–1989 (Leuven University Press)
- Nika Elder *13, John Singleton Copley: Figure Painting and the Atlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press)
- Thomas Hare (Comparative Literature), Out of Character: Writing on Portraits (Zone Books)
- Emily Hyde *13, Modernism, Decolonization, and the Visual Book (Oxford University Press)
- Thomas Keenan (Library), Monsters and Machines: Caricature, Visual Satire, and the Twentieth-Century Bestiary (Princeton University Press)
- Grace Kuipers (High Meadows Environmental Institute), Substrate: Mexican Minerals and Greater American Modernism (Duke University Press)
- Perrin Lathrop *21 (Princeton University Art Museum), Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa (Princeton University Art Museum)
- Pascal Le Boeuf *25, Pseudo Ensemble (Holography Records)
- Michael Meredith (Architecture), Smaller Architecture (Puentes Editores)
- James Moore *24, The Hands Free: Upturned Cup (New Amsterdam Records)
- Monica Ponce de Leon (Architecture), TEMPO (ACTAR)
- Jordana Moore Saggese and Alexandra Foradas (Princeton University Art Museum), Basquiat, the Blue-Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction (Princeton University Art Museum)
- Aaron Shkuda (Architecture), Building the Financial Capital of the World: Trading Securities and Commodities in New York, Chicago, and New Jersey, 1960–2001 (University of Chicago Press)
- Jeffrey Whetstone (Lewis Center for the Arts), Family Genus Species (T I S Publishing)
- Carolyn Yerkes (Art & Archaeology), Siegelands: Early Modern Warfare and the Monumental Print (Princeton University Press)
The Barr Ferree Fund for Publishing, established in 1925, provides financial grants to publishers, record labels, and scholars for enhancements to publications and music albums, as well as for image rights. According to the original trust documents, income from this endowed fund “is to be used in meeting the publication expense of books of merit on architecture and related topics in the fine arts,” including but not limited to sculpture, painting, engraving, music, drawing, landscape design, city planning, and industrial arts. The fund is to “be used for manufacturing and publication expenses only.”
Princeton faculty members, librarians, curators or other academic professionals, or based on doctoral research, and former Princeton Ph.D.s (ordinarily only up to fifteen years after the Ph.D. defense date) are eligible to apply for a Barr Ferree grant. Those interested can apply twice yearly (deadlines are November 15 and April 15).