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P E O P L E
Trustees appoint four to tenured faculty
At its quarterly meeting on May 29, the trustees
appointed professors John Borneman and
Paul Krugman to the faculty and promoted
assistant professors William Gleason and
Molly Greene to tenure as associate
professor.
All appointments are effective July 1.
Borneman, who has been named professor of
anthropology, comes to Princeton from Cornell
University. His research interests include culture
and international order, authority and
identification, narrative theory and ethnographic
method, and political and legal anthropology.
A 1973 graduate of the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, he earned a 1983 MA in political science
at the University of Washington and his 1989 PhD in
anthropology at Harvard University. Appointed
assistant professor at Cornell in 1991, he became
associate professor there in 1999. From 1986 to the
present, he has also done field work in Berlin.
Borneman's books include Subversions of
International Order: Studies in the Political
Anthropology of Culture (1998), Settling
Accounts: Violence, Justice and Accountability in
Postsocialist Europe (1997) and Sojourners:
The Return of German Jews and the Question of
Identity (with J. Peck, 1995).
Krugman, who specializes in international
finance, has been named professorof economics and
international affairs.
A 1974 graduate of Yale, he earned his PhD in
1977 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
returned to Yale as assistant professor. In 1980 he
went back to MIT as associate professor and became
full professor four years later. From 1994 to 1996
he was professor at Stanford University before
returning to MIT.
Krugman is the author of some 20 books,
including most recently, The Spatial Economy
(with M. Fujita and A. Venables, 1999), The
Return of Depression Economics (1999), The
Accidental Theorist (1997) and Pop
Internationalism (1996). Currently an op-ed
columnist for the New York Times, he was
previously a columnist for Fortune and
Slate.
A research associate of the National Bureau of
Economic Research since 1979, he was international
policy economist on the Council of Economic
Advisers from 1982 to 1983. In 1992 he became a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
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William Gleason (Photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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Gleason was appointed assistant professor
in the English Department in1993 after earning his
PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His fields include 19th and 20th-century American
literature, American cultural studies and popular
culture.
A 1983 graduate of Amherst with a BA in
classics, he was a teaching assistant at UCLA from
1988 to 1992. At Princeton he has taught Culture
and Society in the United States, Major American
Writers, and The Literary Tradition from the 18th
Century to the Present, among other courses.
He is the author of The Leisure Ethic: Work
and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940
(1999), as well as essays on Thoreau, Pynchon,
Louise Erdrich and others. He is currently working
on a study of race, architecture and American
literature.
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Molly Greene (Photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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Greene, who joined the History Department
faculty as assistant professor in 1993, is
interested in the Greeks under Ottoman rule and
social and economic history of the Mediterranean in
the early modern period.
A 1981 graduate of Tufts University, she worked
as marine claims adjustor for an American insurance
company in Athens, Greece for three years before
enrolling as a graduate student in Near Eastern
studies at Princeton, where she earned her 1993 PhD
and taught both as a preceptor and a lecturer
before becoming assistant professor.
This past spring, she taught The Mediterrranean:
16th to 20th Century, and her book, A Shared
World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern
Mediterranean, was published. She is now
working on a study of the relationship between
religion and commerce in the early modern
Mediterranean, centered on the island of Malta in
the 17th century.
Faculty resignations
The following faculty members have submitted
their resignations.Effective July 1:
Assistant Professor of Economics and Public
Affairs Marianne Bertrand, to accept a
position at the University of Chicago; Professor of
Physics Bernhard Keimer, to go to the Max
Planck Institute of Solid State Research; Associate
Professor of Architecture Mark Wigley, to
accept a position at Columbia University; and
Assistant Professor of Economics Paul
Willen, to go to the University of Chicago.
Effective September 1: Assistant Professor of
Romance Languages and Literatures Yolanda
Miguel, to accept a position at Rutgers
University.
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