Affiliated Faculty
Rachael Z. Delue
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Assistant Professor
Department: Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2001
Assistant Professor
Department: Art and Archaeology
306 McCormick Hall
(609) 258-3774
Rachael DeLue specializes in American art from the colonial period to the present day, with special emphasis on the nineteenth century and on intersections between art and science. Her most recent research and writing focuses on landscape representation and artistic investigations of the problems of visual function and perception. Her George Inness and the Science of Landscape (University of Chicago, 2004) illuminates the nineteenth-century American landscape painter’s investments in the scientific inquiry of his day—from optics to mathematics to psychology—and characterizes his landscape practice, marked by idiosyncratic and unconventional pictorial strategies and methods, as driven by a preoccupation with the nature and limits of human perceptual capacity.
Professor DeLue is currently researching and writing about turn-of-the-century American art criticism and, in particular, the manner in which art writers appropriated a model of diagnosis from late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century medicine for use in the description and interpretation of paintings. DeLue is also at work on an essay about Spike Lee’s Bamboozled as well as a book on the American painter Arthur Dove; in addition, she is co-editing a volume on landscape theory with James Elkins. Other areas of teaching and research include African-American art, race and visual culture, and visual theory. In addition to presenting at domestic and international conferences and symposia, Professor DeLue has served as a consultant to various museums and collections, including the Terra Foundation, and in June 2005 was a faculty member for a Terra-sponsored professional development program for public high school teachers in Chicago.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: George Inness and the Science of Landscape (University of Chicago, 2004); “Seeing and Reading N.C. Wyeth and Robert Louis Stevenson,” The Art Bulletin (March 2006); "Pissarro, Landscape, Vision, and Tradition," The Art Bulletin LXXX (December 1998).
Susan Fiske
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Psychology Department
2-N-14 Green Hall
(609) 258-0655
sfiske@princeton.edu
Research Summary
Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. We begin with the premise that people easily categorize other people, especially based on race, gender, and age. Going beyond such categories, to learn about the individual person, requires motivation. Social relationships supply one form of motivation to individuate, and our work shows that being on the same team or depending on another person makes people go beyond stereotypes. Conversely, people in power are less motivated to go beyond their stereotypes. In laboratory studies, we examine how a variety of relationships affect people forming impressions of others.
Society's cultural stereotypes and prejudice also depend on relationships of power and interdependence. Group status and competition affect how groups are (dis)liked and (dis)respected. In surveys, we examine the content of group stereotypes based on race, gender, age, (dis)ability, income, and more, finding patterns in the ways that society views various groups.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology
Psychology Department
2-N-14 Green Hall
(609) 258-0655
sfiske@princeton.edu
Research Summary
Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. We begin with the premise that people easily categorize other people, especially based on race, gender, and age. Going beyond such categories, to learn about the individual person, requires motivation. Social relationships supply one form of motivation to individuate, and our work shows that being on the same team or depending on another person makes people go beyond stereotypes. Conversely, people in power are less motivated to go beyond their stereotypes. In laboratory studies, we examine how a variety of relationships affect people forming impressions of others.
Society's cultural stereotypes and prejudice also depend on relationships of power and interdependence. Group status and competition affect how groups are (dis)liked and (dis)respected. In surveys, we examine the content of group stereotypes based on race, gender, age, (dis)ability, income, and more, finding patterns in the ways that society views various groups.
Douglas S. Massey
Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
Office of Population Research
Princeton University
Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-4949
dmassey@princeton.edu
Douglas S. Massey is interested in the social construction of race and the use of race as a social category in racially stratified societies. He has written extensively on the topic of black residential segregation in the United States, and his work has sought to determine the causes and consequences of segregation in American cities, focusing on its role in perpetuating black socioeconomic disadvantage. He is also interested in the topic of racial construction in Latin America and the racialization of Latinos in the United States, focusing most recently on the demonization and exclusion of persons of Mexican origin. Recent work in education has focused on the role of stereotype threat in undermining black academic achievement.
CURRICULUM VITA (pdf)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Charles, Camille Z., Mary J. Fischer, Margarita Mooney, and Douglas S. Massey. 2009.
Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Massey, Douglas S. 2007. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Massey, Douglas S., Camille Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer. 2003 Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
William A. Massey
Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
E410 Engineering Quadrangle
(609) 258-7384
wmassey@princeton.edu
Research Interests: Performance and pricing models for telecommunications systems. Asymptotic analysis and stochastic bounds for queueing networks. Special interests in the theories of queues with time-varying rates and stochastic networks.
ORF105: The Science and Technology of Decision Making
Diversity Conf. Organizer Massey speaks on Panel for mentoring
"William Massey, a 1977 Princeton graduate and the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, participated in a panel discussion with other faculty members on 'Princeton Today: Leading Research and Education.' Massey was praised for his role as a mentor to generations of Princeton students. ...
"The two-day conference, titled 'Leading Change in Science and Technology: A Princeton Engineering Conference for Black Alumni,' brings together black leaders in science and technology, as well as public policy and business. The event, which was set to continue on Saturday, presents a forum for alumni to learn about research and education in Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science and to share ideas about leadership, entrepreneurship and "best practices" for increasing diversity in the scientific and engineering fields."
Cecilia Rouse
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor, Department of Economics and Director, Education Research Section
Firestone Library
(609) 258-4042
rouse@dakar.princeton.edu
Professor Cecilia Rouse's primary research and teaching interests are in labor economics with a particular focus on the economics of education. She has studied the economic benefit of community college attendance, evaluated the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, examined the effects of education inputs on student achievement, and tested for the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras. Her current research includes studies of Florida's school accountability system and randomized evaluations of the use of computers in schools.
Nicole Shelton
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998
Psychology Department
2-C-19 Green Hall
(609) 258-2467
nshelton@princeton.edu
The focus of my research is on understanding prejudice and discrimination from the target's perspective. In one line of research, I examine social interactions between Whites and ethnic minorities. Here I explore how interpersonal concerns about issues of prejudice (i.e., concerns with appearing prejudiced and concerns with being rejected) influence the dynamics of intergroup contact. Additionally, I've been exploring personality and situational factors that influence the development and maintenance of cross-racial friendships. In the second line of research, I've been studying issues related to targets' detection of and responses to prejudice and discrimination. Here I've been examining situational and personality factors that influence the extent to which ethnic minorities and women will make attributions to discrimination and confront perpetrators of prejudice. Additionally, I've been examining the personal and social costs of confronting and not confronting perpetrators of prejudice.
Tracy K. Smith
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
Room 214, 185 Nassau Street
(609) 258-2924
tksmith@princeton.edu
Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. She is the author of three books of poetry: Life on Mars, Duende, and The Body's Question. Smith is the recipient of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, a 2005 Whiting Award and the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and is the Literature protégé in 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program.
Awards & Publications
Poetry –The Body’s Question, (2003), winner Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Duende, (forthcoming in 2007); Whiting Writer's Award (2005), Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award (2004), Austin Chronicle Favorite Book of 2003, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (2002), Wallace Stegner Fellowship (1997-99).
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
Room 214, 185 Nassau Street
(609) 258-2924
tksmith@princeton.edu
Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. She is the author of three books of poetry: Life on Mars, Duende, and The Body's Question. Smith is the recipient of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, a 2005 Whiting Award and the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and is the Literature protégé in 2009-2011 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She is an assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program.
Awards & Publications
Poetry –The Body’s Question, (2003), winner Cave Canem Poetry Prize; Duende, (forthcoming in 2007); Whiting Writer's Award (2005), Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award (2004), Austin Chronicle Favorite Book of 2003, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation (2002), Wallace Stegner Fellowship (1997-99).
Winston O. Soboyejo
B. Sc. King's College, London University, 1985
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1988
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
D404B Engineering QuadProfessor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.
(609) 258-5609
Wole Soboyejo was educated in England before moving to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at MIT. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems.
Edward E. Telles
Professor of Sociology
151 Wallace Hall
t: (609) 258-4324
f: (609) 258-2180
etelles@princeton.edu
Edward E. Telles is interested in race and ethnicity, in comparative perspective. He has written extensively on the incorporation of Mexican origin people in the United States and on race in Brazil. He is currently directing the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) which examines black and indigenous identity and racial inequality in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and several other Latin American countries and continues his multigenerational study of Mexican Americans.
CURRICULUM VITA (pdf)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Telles, Edward E. and Vilma Ortiz. 2008. Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation and Race. Russell Sage.
Telles, Edward E. 2004. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton.
Telles, Edward and Rene Flores. forthcoming. Telles, Edward E. and René Flores. 2011. “More than Just Color: Whiteness Nation and Status in Latin America” Hispanic American Historical Review.
Telles, Edward and Christina Sue. 2009. “Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology: 129-146.
Telles, Edward E. 2007. “Race, Ethnicity and the UN’s Millenium Development Goals in Latin America” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2(2). September:185-200.