Faculty members become full professors
The following faculty members have been promoted
to full professor, as of July 1.
In the Department of History, Jeremy
Adelman teaches modern Latin American history
and directs the Program in Latin American Studies.
He has been a member of the faculty since 1992. His
most recent book is Republic of Capital: Buenos
Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic
World (1999), which won the American Historical
Association's prize for best book on Atlantic
history.
In Architecture, Elizabeth Diller, who
joined the faculty in 1990, is principal in the
interdisciplinary architecture studio,
Diller+Scofidio. In 1999 the partnership received a
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for the creation of
an alternative form of architectural practice that
unites design, performance and electronic media
with cultural and architectural theory and
criticism.
In Sociology, Frank Dobbin has been at
Princeton since 1988. He teaches courses in
organization and management and comparative public
policy, as well as Techniques and Methods of Social
Science. He is author of Forging Industrial
Policy: The United States, Britain and France in
the Railway Age (1994); recent articles chart
the effects of antitrust policy on business
strategy and the effects of equal opportunity law
on personnel management.
Also in Sociology since 1987, Michèle
Lamont has taught Contemporary Sociological
Theory; and Culture, Power and Inequality. She is
author of The Cultural Territories of Race:
Black and White Boundaries (1999) and
forthcoming books on "The Dignity of Working Men:
Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and
Immigration" and "Rethinking Comparative Cultural
Sociology: Polities and Repertoires of Evaluation
in France and the United States."
In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Michael Littman's interests include control
of quantum systems, tunable laser design and
bio-mimic robots. Current projects are quantum and
acoustic wave control using pulsed lasers, and
application of iterative learning control to
quantum computing. A member of the faculty since
1985, he teaches automatic and microcomputer
control and coteaches Engineering in the Modern
World.
In Psychology, social psychologist Deborah
Prentice teaches introductory psychology,
Psychology and Gender, and the Psychology of Moral
Behavior. At Princeton since 1988, she has recently
studied the values, choices and wellbeing of
college students, and the social dynamics that
perpetuate gender stereotyping and intergroup
conflict.
In Molecular Biology, Jean Schwarzbauer
studies cell adhesion, focusing on how changes in
the architecture of the extracellular matrix
network modulate cell behavior during development,
wound healing and cancer. She came to Princeton in
1986 and teaches cell biology, as well as serving
as undergraduate departmental representative and
faculty adviser to the graduate student teaching
committee.
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