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New associate and assistant professors appointed
The Board of Trustees has appointed one new associate professor and 13 new assistant professors to the faculty.
The associate professor is:
In sociology:
• Martin Ruef, who earned a B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. A specialist in organizational sociology and network analysis, he previously has taught at Stanford and the University of North Carolina. His appointment with continuing tenure is effective July 1, 2004.
The assistant professors are:
In astrophysical sciences:
• Alice Shapley, who studies high-redshift galaxies. A 1997 graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe University, she earned a Ph.D. in 2003 from the California Institute of Technology. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley. Her three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2005.
In East Asian studies:
• Atsuko Ueda, a specialist in modern Japanese literature. She earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan in 1991, 1994 and 1999, respectively. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign since 2000. Her three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2004.
In geosciences:
• Nadine McQuarrie, who specializes in tectonics. A 1993 graduate of Whitman College, she earned an M.S. from Idaho State University in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001. She has been a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Her three-year appointment is effective July 1, 2004.
In history:
• Michael Laffan, a specialist in Southeast Asian history. A 1995 graduate of Australian National University, he earned a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Sydney. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies and a research fellow at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His three-and-a-half-year appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2005.
In mathematics:
• Thomas Chen, a specialist in analysis, mathematical physics, dynamical systems and applied mathematics. He earned M.S. degrees in 1992 and 1996 and Ph.D. degrees in 1999 and 2001, all from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He has been an assistant professor at New York University's Courant Institute since 2001. His three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2004.
In operations research and financial engineering:
• Alexandre d'Aspremont, who specializes in operations research. He earned an M.S. from Stanford University in 2001 and a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique in 2003. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley for the last year. His three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2004.
In philosophy:
• Thomas Kelly, who specializes in epistemology and practical rationality. He earned a B.A. in 1994 from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard, where he has since been a junior fellow. His three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2004.
In politics:
• Scott Ashworth, who has been an assistant professor at Harvard since 2001. A specialist in formal theory/quantitative methods, he earned a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. In 2003-04, he was a visiting assistant professor at Princeton. His three-year appointment is effective July 1, 2004.
• Jan-Werner Müller, whose field of specialization is political theory. A 1994 graduate of University College, London, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1999. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, a research director at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin and a prize fellow at All Souls College at Oxford. His three-and-a-half-year appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2005.
• Jennifer Pitts, who has been a visiting fellow at Princeton for the last year. A specialist in political theory, she earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1992 and was an assistant professor there from 2001 to 2003. She received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Her three-year appointment is effective July 1, 2004.
• Andrea Vindigni, a specialist in formal theory/quantitative methods. A 1996 graduate of Bocconi University in Italy, he earned his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Toulouse in France. He was a predoctoral fellow at Princeton in 2001-02 and a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002-03. Since then, he has been an assistant professor at Stockholm University. His three-year appointment is effective Aug. 1, 2004.
In psychology:
• Asif Ghazanfar, who specializes in neuroscience. He earned a B.S. from the University of Idaho in 1994 and a Ph.D. from Duke University in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard for a year and has been a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany since 2001. His three-year appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2005.
In sociology:
• Devah Pager, who specializes in ethnicity, stratification and criminal justice. A 1993 graduate of the University of California-Los Angeles, she earned an M.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1996, an M.A. from Stanford University in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. She has been an assistant professor at Northwestern University since 2002. Her three-year appointment is effective July 1, 2004.
Faculty resign
The following faculty members have submitted their resignations:
Effective July 1, 2004: Craig Dworkin, assistant professor of English, to accept a position at the University of Utah; Barbara Hahn, professor of Germanic languages and literatures, to accept a position at Vanderbilt University; Daniel Kahne, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, to accept a position at Harvard University; Laura Kurgan, assistant professor of architecture, to accept a position at Columbia University; Guido Lorenzoni, assistant professor of economics and public affairs, to accept a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Scott Soames, professor of philosophy, to accept a position at the University of Southern California; Suzanne Walker, professor of chemistry, to accept a position at Harvard University.
Effective Aug. 1, 2004: Fumiko Nazikian, senior lecturer in East Asian studies, to accept a position at Columbia University.
Effective Aug. 31, 2004: Frank Tong, assistant professor of psychology, to accept a position at Vanderbilt University.
Effective Sept. 1, 2004: Bjorn Engquist, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics, to accept a position at the University of Texas; Ariel Rubinstein, lecturer with the rank of professor of economics, to accept a position at New York University; David Sussman, assistant professor of philosophy, to accept a position at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.
Effective July 1, 2005: Anne Marie Bouché, assistant professor of art and archaeology.