Woodrow Wilson School alum Earl Kim M.P.A. '93, was recently named as a New Jersey Principal of the Year. Kim was one of  nine public school principals from across New Jersey who were selected for honors in this year’s Principal of the Year Program. Now in its second year, the program is designed to recognize exemplary school leadership.  Each principal selected for the award receives a $10,000 stipend that may be applied to school-based improvements and professional development opportunities and a $500 unrestricted grant.

Kim is currently the principal of Emerson Jr.-Sr. High School in Emerson, N.J. He was formerly a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, and served in Okinawa, Japan and Paris Island, S.C. After leaving the Marines with the rank of captain, Earl taught mathematics at Trenton Central High School from 1988 to 1991. At the Woodrow Wilson School, Earl focused on domestic policy and completed a summer internship working in the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University. Upon graduation, Earl became assistant principal of Cherry Hill High School West in Cherry Hill, N.J. and assumed his current position in 1996.

Marta Tienda, director of Princeton's Office of Population Research, received an honorary doctorate in social science from Ohio State University at its Commencement ceremony June 14. Tiendas research focuses on diversity in higher education, race and gender inequality, and the sociology of economic life.

Tienda, the Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Sociology, has written scores of scholarly papers, book chapters and articles, and is co-author of "The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Family, Work and Welfare in the Inner City" and "The Hispanic Population of the United States." She also is co-editor of "Youth in Cities: A Cross-National Perspective," "Divided Opportunities: Poverty, Minorities and Social Policy" and "Hispanics in the U.S. Economy," among other works.

Tienda was one of four honorary degree recipients, including President George W. Bush, Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner III, and Walter E. Massey, president of Atlantas Morehouse College.

photo: Kevin Fitzsimons

Alfred C. Aman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Rochester with a bachelor of arts in political science in 1967. He earned his J.D. in 1970 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Law Review. Most recently dean of the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, Aman was formerly a member of the faculty of Cornell Law School, and has held appointments as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Trento, Italy; Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Paris; and Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, England. A specialist in constitutional and administrative law, Aman has published a monograph on globalization (Administrative Law in a Global Era, Cornell University Press), a treatise and casebooks on administrative law, and numerous articles and essays. Aman will soon begin work on a book dealing with globalization and democracy. He plans to return to Bloomington following his Princeton fellowship as a member of the law faculty where, in 1999, he was named Roscoe C. OByrne Professor of Law.

Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California. She received a bachelor of arts in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1984, and a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale in 1992. She was a judicial law clerk for Judge Sam J. Ervin, III, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Dudziak began her teaching career at the University of Iowa College of Law in 1986. In 1997 she began teaching at the University of Southern California Law School. She is the author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000), and has written extensively on civil rights history and American legal history. She was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award at USC in 2002 for Cold War Civil Rights. Upcoming projects include a book on constitutional politics in Kenya in the years leading up to independence in 1963, including the role of Thurgood Marshall in writing the Kenyan bill of rights, and an edited interdisciplinary collection based on an upcoming symposium: September 11 as a Transformative Moment.

Sarah B. Gordon is a legal historian who specializes in the history of religion in America. She is a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches property, religious history, and courses on church and state. She has published work on blasphemy, womens suffrage, law and literature, and is the author of The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Gordon holds a bachelors degree from Vassar College, a J.D. and a Masters in Divinity from Yale, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton. While at Princeton, she will begin work on a new book project, investigating the litigation practices of religious organizations in the twentieth century, and their important role in the tectonic shift in the understanding of what it means to exercise freedom and bear rights. She also will teach a course: Resurgence and Rebirth: American Religion and Legal Change in the Twentieth Century.

Ran Hirschl is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto. His primary areas of interest are comparative public law, constitutional rights, and judicial politics. He holds a bachelors, masters, and an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University, as well as a master of arts, master of philosophy, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He has published extensively on comparative constitutional law and politics in journals such as Law & Social Inquiry, Comparative Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, American Journal of Comparative Law, University of Richmond Law Review, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence; as well as in several acclaimed edited volumes. While at Yale and at the University of Toronto he received several fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholar nomination and a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant. While at Princeton, he will be completing a book entitled Towards Juristocracy: A Comparative Inquiry into the Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

Harry Litman is the immediate past United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He received his bachelors from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Abner Mikva, Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Justice Anthony Kennedy. He thereafter worked in private practice in Pittsburgh and then became a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of California. From 1993-1998, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice, Office of Policy Development. He became United States Attorney in 1998 and served in that position until 2001.In July 2000, he was nominated to a federal judgeship on the United States District Court. He has been an adjunct professor at the law schools of the University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University, and the University of Pittsburgh, and he has published a number of articles on criminal law, federalism, and constitutional interpretation. While at Princeton, he will be working on a theoretical article on prosecutorial discretion and an empirical article analyzing arrests for drug crimes, and he will also teach a seminar on the nature and scope of the federal criminal law.

Linda Przybyszewski is an associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989. Her primary area of interest is the legal and intellectual history of the United States. She has written on the right to privacy, civil rights law, and gender issues. She is the author of The Republic According to John Marshall Harlan (University of North Carolina Press, 1999) and the editor of Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911 by Malvina Shanklin Harlan (Modern Library, 2002). Her current book project is entitled A Brooding Omnipresence: The Role of Religious Faith in American Legal Thought, 1829-1940. While at Princeton, she will be focusing on the history of the teaching of international law in the academy in the United States and the general populations view of international law and the peace movement.

Kal Raustiala is an acting professor at UCLA Law School. His research focuses on the links between law and international relations, including regulatory cooperation, international agreements, compliance, and sovereignty. He holds a bachelors in political science from Duke University, a Ph.D in political science from U.C. San Diego, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Raustiala has been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, an assistant professor at Brandeis University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is co-editor of The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments (with D.G. Victor and E. Skolnikoff, 1998). At Princeton, he will explore the influence of changes in interdependence and globalization on domestic legal doctrines of territoriality and sovereignty, as well as the ways in which international institutions challenge domestic sovereignty and democracy. He will also be a visiting professor in the Politics Department, teaching courses on public international law and global environmental cooperation.

Graham, originally from Madison, Wisconsin, is currently a program associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, MD. She received her Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1999, and her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction) from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. Graham previously served as director of a Corps Program at Teach for America (founded by WWS undergraduate alumna Wendy Kopp '89). At the Annie E. Casey Foundation, she manages a portfolio of grants to nonprofit organizations and city and state governments that focus on education reform, family economic security, and community development.

The mission of the non-partisan White House Fellows program, as established by President Johnson in 1964, is to develop the nation's future leaders by giving fellows first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government and increasing their sense of participation in national affairs. Selection as a White House Fellow is based on a record of remarkable professional achievement early in a career, evidence of leadership potential, a proven commitment to public service, and the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute successfully at the highest levels of the federal government.

White House fellows work closely with Cabinet Secretaries and White House staff to develop policy, help draft and review legislation, research various public policy initiatives, respond to Congressional inquiries, write speeches, and conduct policy briefings. They also participate in an education program, which consists of regular meetings with leaders from various professions and both domestic and international policy trips studying the implementation of U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

Graham is the tenth WWS graduate alumnus to receive a White House Fellowship. Previous recipients include: Col. Robert L. Gordon, III M.P.A. '89, currently a professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York; John B. Buxton M.P.A. '99, senior education advisor, Office of the Governor, State of North Carolina; Daniel F. Feldman M.P.A./J.D. '94, an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Washington, DC; Jeffrey M. Prieto M.P.A.-U.R.P. '97, trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, in Washington, DC; Anthony D. So, M.D. M.P.A. '86, associate director of the Health Equity Division, The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY; Peter M. Dawkins M.P.A. '70, Ph.D. '79, vice chairman of the Private Banking Group, Citigroup, Inc., New York, NY; Martha Darling M.P.A. '70, a self-employed consultant in Ann Arbor, MI; Robert C. Orr M.P.A. '92, Ph.D. '96, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC; and Patrick A. Putignano, M.P.A. '70, program manager, Omega Technologies, in Alexandria, VA.