New associate, assistant professors appointed to faculty
Princeton NJ -- The Board of Trustees has appointed two new associate professors and nine new assistant professors to the faculty:
The associate professors are:
In philosophy:
· James Pryor, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1997. A 1991 graduate of Cornell University, he has been a faculty member at Harvard University since 1996. His fields of specialization are epistemology and philosophy of mind. His appointment with continuing tenure was effective July 1, 2002.
In politics:
· Martin Gilens, who specializes in American politics. He earned his B.A. in 1982 from the University of California-Santa Cruz, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1985 and 1991, respectively. He was a faculty member at Yale University for eight years. Since 2000, he has been a faculty member at the University of California-Los Angeles, where he also has served as associate director of the Institute for Social Science Research. His appointment with continuing tenure is effective Sept. 1, 2003.
The assistant professors are:
In civil and environmental engineering:
· Yin Young, who studies wave structure interaction. The recipient of a B.S. from the University of Southern California in 1996, she earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Her three-year appointment was effective Sept. 1, 2002.
In classics:
· Constanze Güthenke, who studies the modern reception of the Hellenic tradition. She earned a B.A. and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1996 and 1997, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in 2002 from Oxford University, and is serving this year as a visiting research fellow at Princeton. Her three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2003.
In English:
· Sophie Gee, a specialist in 18th-century literature. The recipient of a B.A. from the University of Sydney in Australia in 1995, she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Her three-year appointment was effective Sept. 1, 2002.
In molecular biology:
· Rebecca Burdine, who studies developmental genetics. She earned her B.S. in 1990 from Western Kentucky University, and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997. For the past five years, she has been conducting postdoctoral research at the schools of medicine at Yale and New York University. Her three-and-one-half-year appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2003.
· Jonathan Eggenschwiler, who also studies developmental genetics. He earned his B.A. from the University of California-Santa Cruz in 1988 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998. Since then, he has been conducting postdoctoral research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. His three-and-one-half-year appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2003.
In music:
· Dmitri Tymoczko, who specializes in composition. The recipient of a B.A. from Harvard University in 1992, he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1999 and 2002, respectively. His three-year appointment was effective Sept. 1, 2002.
In operations research and financial engineering:
· Savas Dayanik, a specialist in stochastic control. He earned his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Bilkent University in Turkey in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2002. His three-year appointment was effective July 1, 2002.
In psychology:
· Virginia Kwan, whose field is social and personality psychology. She earned a B.S. from Bedmidji State University in 1995, an M.A. from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 2002. Her three-year appointment was effective July 1, 2002.
In psychology and public affairs:
· Alexander Todorov, who studies social cognition and judgment and decision making. He earned his B.A. in 1994 from Sofia University in Bulgaria, his M.A. in 1998 from the New School for Social Research and his Ph.D. in 2002 from New York University. His three-year appointment was effective July 1, 2002.
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November 25, 2002
Vol. 92, No. 11
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Contents
Page one
•Gossman expresses gratitude through book on WWII rescue
•University to 'redouble' diversity efforts with dialogue
Inside
•Personal involvement provides inside view
•Enthusiasm for biology is contagious
People
•Healy named director of public safety
•Taylor to step down as dean of the faculty; search committee formed
•New associate, assistant professors appointed to faculty
•People, spotlight, retirements, briefs
•Obituaries
Sections
•Nassau Notes
•By the numbers
•Calendar of events
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