Four move up to full professor
Four associate professors have been promoted to
the rank of professor:
Scott Burnham in Music, Andrew
Ford in Classics, Richard Register in
Chemical Engineering and Bruce Western in
Sociology.
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Scott Burnham (Photo by Robert
P. Matthews)
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Burnham, who has been at Princeton since
1989, teaches courses on music theory and analysis,
history of tonal theory, and the music of
Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart and others. His
Beethoven Hero (1995) has just been
reprinted in paperback. He is coeditor of
"Beethoven and His World" and coauthor of "The New
Grove Beethoven," both forthcoming. He is currently
working on a project on "Mozart, Schubert and the
Music of Romantic Subjectivity."
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Andrew Ford (Photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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Ford is a specialist in Ancient Greek
literature and the history of literary criticism,
who has been a member of the faculty since 1986. He
teaches Greek language and literature, and courses
for the Humanities Council, including Classical
Roots of Western Literature and next semester's
Classical Arts of Persuasion: Rhetoric, Sophistry,
and Salesmanship from Ancient to Modern Times.
Forthcoming is his book, "The Origins of Literary
Criticism in Classical Greece."
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Richard Register (Photo by
Robert P. Matthews)
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Register, whose field is polymer science
and engineering, currently teaches courses in
polymer synthesis and polymer structure and
properties. His research interests are in the
morphology and properties of multicomponent
polymeric materials, particularly block copolymers,
polymer blends, semicrystalline polymers, ionomers
and electroluminescent polymers. On the faculty
since 1990, he is a member of the Princeton
Materials Institute and the Center for Photonics
and Optoelectronic Materials.
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Bruce Western (Photo by Denise
Applewhite)
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Western, who joined the Princeton faculty
in 1993, works in the areas of political sociology,
economic sociology and methodology. Author of
Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization
in the Capitalist Democracies (1998), he is
currently working on a project on prisons and
inequality in America. Western teaches Social
Inequality: Class, Race and Gender, and a graduate
seminar on statistics.
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