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P E O P L E
Preceptorships
Eight assistant professors have received
preceptorships for three years, starting July 1: In
Classics, John Ma (Jonathan Edwards
Preceptor); in English, Mark Hansen (Robert
K. Root Preceptor); in History, Andrew
Isenberg (Christian Gauss Fund Preceptor); in
Politics, Patrick Deneen (Laurance S.
Rockefeller Preceptor) and Keith Whittington
(John Maclean Jr. Presidential Preceptor); in
Religion, Leora Batnitzky (Richard Stockton
Preceptor); and in the Woodrow Wilson School,
Joshua Goldstein (Richard Allen Lester
Preceptor) and Kenneth Schultz (Arthur H.
Scribner Preceptor).
Reappointments
At its quarterly meeting on April 15, the board
of trustees approved the following
reappointments.
Lecturers
Elizabeth Bogan, senior lecturer in
Economics, has been reappointed for five years, and
Gwee-Sook Kim, senior lecturer in East Asian
Studies, has been reappointed for three years, both
as of July 1.
Assistant professors
For three years, beginning July 1: in
Architecture, Thomas Dandelet; in Chemistry,
Martinus Nooijen; in History, Andrew
Isenberg and Richard Turits; in
Mathematics, Izabella Laba and John
Stalker; and in the Woodrow Wilson School,
John Oliver.
For a one-year extension: in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, Laura Landweber
(beginning July 1), and in the Woodrow Wilson
School, Deborah Yashar (beginning July 1,
2001).
For one year, beginning July 1: in History,
Eileen Scully; in Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Minh Phan; and in Romance
Languages and Literatures, Soraya
Tlatli.
Trustees appoint assistant professors
The following assistant professors have been
appointed to the faculty.
In Classics, Mark Buchan is interested in
Greek literature and critical theory. He has a 1988
BA and 1991 MA from Cambridge University and 1995
MA and 1996 PhD degrees from the University of
Michigan. A postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern
from 1997 to 1999, he has been acting assistant
professor at the University of Washington for the
past year.
Also in Classics, Joshua Katz studies
historical and comparative linguistics. A lecturer
at Princeton since 1998, he has a 1991 BA from Yale
University, 1993 MA from Oxford University and 1998
PhD from Harvard University.
In Computer Science, David August, who
has been an instructor at Princeton since 1999, is
interested in compilers and computer architecture.
He earned his 1993 BS at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and his 1996 MS and 2000 PhD at the
University of Illinois, Urbana.
Also in Computer Science, Vivek Pai is
interested in operating systems and high
performance applications. At Rice University he
received a 1991 BS, 1996 MS and 1999 PhD.
In Mathematics, Yi-Jen Lee, an instructor
at Princeton since 1997, is interested in topology
and geometry. He has a 1991 BS from National Taiwan
University and 1993 MA and 1997 PhD from
Harvard.
Also in Math, Igor Rodnianski's field is
geometric analysis and partial differential
equations. An instructor at Princeton since 1999,
he has a 1993 BS and 1996 MS from St. Petersburg
State University and 1999 PhD from Kansas State
University.
In Politics, Adam Berinsky, who has been
an instructor at Princeton since 1999, is
interested in American politics. He earned his 1992
BA at Wesleyan University and 1999 PhD at
Michigan.
In Psychology, J. Nicole Shelton is
interested in social psychology. A postdoctoral
research fellow since 1998 at Michigan, she has a
1993 BA from the College of William and Mary and
1996 MA and 1998 PhD degrees from the University of
Virginia.
Also in Psychology, Frank Tong studies
cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging. A
postdoctoral fellow at the University of
California, Los Angeles since 1999, he has a 1995
BS from Queen's University in Canada and 1999 PhD
from Harvard.
In the Woodrow Wilson School, Elizabeth
Armstrong's field is medical sociology. She has
a 1989 BA from Yale University, 1993 MPA from
Princeton and 1994 MA and 1998 PhD from the
University of Pennsylvania. For the past year she
was a Foundation Scholar at Michigan.
Also in the Woodrow Wilson School, Eric
Thun is interested in comparative politics. A
postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for the past year, he has a
1990 BA from Princeton and 1999 PhD from
Harvard.
All appointments are for three years, beginning
July 1, except those of Armstrong, Thun and Tong,
which begin September 1, and those of August,
Berinsky and Pak, which began February 1 for three
and a half years.
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