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Six faculty members transfer to emeritus status
Six faculty members were transferred to emeritus status in recent action by the Board of Trustees.
They are: Jameson Doig, professor of politics and public affairs; Amy Gutmann, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values; Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology; Peter Kenen, the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance; James McPherson, the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History; and Andrew Yao, the William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of computer science. All are effective July 1, 2004, except for Gutmann's which is effective Dec. 1, 2004, and Yao's, which is effective Sept. 1, 2004.
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Jameson Doig |
Doig joined the faculty in 1961 after earning a master of public affairs and master's and doctoral degrees in politics from Princeton. His undergraduate degree is from Dartmouth. His major work has focused on public administration with a special emphasis on the problems of urban regions. He is the author or editor of several books, including "New York: The Politics of Urban Regional Development" (with Mike Danielson) and "Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority."
Over the years, Doig has devoted many hours to University service. He was a member of the Steering Committee for Creation of an African-American Studies Program; associate dean and director of the Woodrow Wilson School's graduate program; and chair of the Department of Politics. He is the founding director of the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice in the Department of Politics and led the effort to renovate the building at 83 Prospect Ave. for the center's home.
Doig's work also has involved a constant dialogue with the public authorities he has studied. He has served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force on Minority Concerns; a consultant on educational leadership to the U.S. Department of Education; an adviser to the chair of the New Jersey State Parole Board; and vice chair of the New Jersey Governor's Advisory Council on Corrections. His work on public policy has received numerous honors, including the Aaron Wildavsky Award from the Policy Studies Organization and the Abel Wolman Award from the Public Works Historical Society for "Empire on the Hudson."
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Amy Gutmann |
Gutmann, who has served as provost since 2001, will be leaving Princeton after 28 years to become president of the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the faculty in 1976 after earning a B.A. from Radcliffe College, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A pre-eminent scholar and teacher of political philosophy, democratic political theory and the ethics of public life, she has won the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching and lectured around the world.
In 1990, Gutmann was appointed the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the founding director of the University Center for Human Values, which is a model of a university ethics program that supports undergraduate and graduate teaching, scholarship and public discussion of ethics and human values across all disciplines. Gutmann served as Princeton's dean of the faculty from 1995 to 1997 and as academic adviser to the president from 1997 to 1998. In 2003, Gutmann was awarded the Centennial Medal by Harvard University for "graduate alumni who have made exceptional contributions to society."
Gutmann is the author of more than 100 articles and many books, including "Identity in Democracy," "Democratic Education," "Democracy and Disagreement" (with Dennis Thompson), "Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race" (with Anthony Appiah), "Ethics and Politics" (with Dennis Thompson) and "Freedom of Association." She has won the Ralph J. Bunche Award "for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism"; the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights Award for the "outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America." She has served as president of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and is a founding member of the executive committee of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Suzanne Keller |
Keller earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and held research and teaching positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York Medical College, Doxiadis Associates (Athens), Brandeis, New York University, Vassar, the City College of New York and the Graduate School of Ekistics (Athens) before coming to Princeton as a visiting professor in 1966. Two years later, she joined the sociology faculty and was the first woman to receive tenure at the University in 1968.
Keller played a major role in promoting women's studies first as an academic subject and then (in 1981) as a formally constituted Princeton program. She also taught the University's first course on gender and society during the early 1970s. In addition to teaching and serving as a mentor to many students, she conducted research on elites, families, gender, inequality, architecture and community. She wrote textbooks on urban neighborhoods and general sociology, the latter now in its eighth edition. Her 2003 book, "Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality," culminated three decades of close observation of change in a New Jersey planned community, Twin Rivers.
In 1994, Keller earned a master of social work degree from Rutgers University. She has worked at various phases of her career in departments of psychiatry, architecture and planning as well as sociology; at Princeton, she taught in the School of Architecture for 10 years. She has served as vice president of the American Sociological Association and as president of the Eastern Sociological Society, which bestowed upon her its Career Merit Award.
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Peter Kenen |
Kenen has been a faculty member at Princeton since 1971. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, then returned to Columbia to join its faculty in 1957. Over the next 14 years, he rose through the ranks, was appointed chair of the economics department and eventually served as provost for a year. When he came to Princeton, he was named director of the International Finance Section and served in that capacity for 29 years.
Kenen has taught courses in international trade and finance, international economics and foreign economic policy. The author of 12 books, he has conducted research and written widely on international trade and the international monetary system. He edited three series of refereed monographs published by the International Finance Section and organized conferences and meetings sponsored by the section that brought together government officials and academics.
Kenen has been a visiting scholar at universities and central banks in several countries and a research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Treasury, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve System and the International Monetary Fund.
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James McPherson |
McPherson joined the Princeton faculty in 1962 after earning a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. A pre-eminent Civil War scholar, he is widely known for his ability to take American history out of the confines of the academy and make it accessible to the general reading public. His best-selling book, "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era," won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1989. He also has written and edited many other books about abolition, the war and Lincoln, and he has written essays and reviews for several national publications.
Legendary for his intellectual gen-erosity, McPherson has shared his knowledge through courses in the history department that have been consistently oversubscribed as well as through field trips to Civil War battle sites that draw large numbers of students and alumni. He frequently is called upon to use his historical knowledge to reflect on current events. He was one of the speakers at a memorial service held on campus the Sunday following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He also was chosen to speak at this year's Baccalaureate service.
In 2000, the National Endowment for the Humanities chose McPherson to deliver its annual Jefferson Lecture, the organization's highest honor for individual achievement in the humanities. A crusader for preservation, McPherson in 1991 was named by the U.S. Senate to the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission. The group determined major battle sites, evaluated conditions and recommended improvements in a report issued in 1993. This past year, he has served as president of the American Historical Association.
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Andrew Yao |
Yao joined the Princeton faculty in 1986. He earned a B.S. in physics from National Taiwan University, a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois. He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley before coming to Princeton.
Yao has made fundamental, far-reaching discoveries in many areas of theoretical computer science and has helped lay the foundation for a host of new fields, including communication complexity, theory of cryptography, circuit complexity, pseudorandom number generation and quantum computing. He is especially well known for his work in communication complexity, a field he invented in the late 1970s that has led to many breakthroughs and continues to have an impact on developing areas.
Yao is the recipient of numerous awards, including the A.M. Turing Award, which is commonly described as the "Nobel Prize" of computing. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Sinica. From 1994 to 1996, he was the co-director of DIMACS, the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. He has been the editor of 11 journals and has served on the program committee of dozens of conferences.