From the Princeton Weeklyn Bulletin, June 9, 1997
Awards honor outstanding teachersPresidential Teaching Awards highlight excellence
of Princeton faculty membersThe 1997 President's Awards for Distinguished Teaching were presented at Commencement to Miguel Centeno, assistant professor of sociology; Emmet Gowin, professor in the Council of the Humanities and Visual Arts; Gideon Rosen, assistant professor of philosophy; and Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Rosen.
Centeno, who becomes associate professor July 1, has just been named master of Wilson College. Author of Mexico in the 1990s (1991) and editor of The Politics of Expertise in Latin America (1997), he has taught courses on Social Change, Contemporary Cuba and Mexico, and Latinos in the United States, among others, including introductory sociology. A Yale graduate, he earned a master's degree in management from Yale in 1987 and his PhD in sociology in 1990, the same year he joined the Princeton faculty.
Gowin has taught photography at Princeton since 1973, offering introductory and advanced photography courses. He was tenured in 1991 and promoted to professor in 1994. A graduate of Richmond Professional Institute, he earned an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967. Exhibitions of Gowin's work have been held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of the City of Paris; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which published a retrospective of his work, Emmet Gowin/Photographs (1990).
Gideon Rosen, who is Jonathan Dickinson Bicentennial Preceptor, teaches Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology, as well as Problems of Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind. He has also taught a freshman seminar in Freedom and Responsibility. A graduate of Columbia University, he received his PhD in 1989 from Princeton. After teaching at the University of Michigan, he joined the Princeton faculty in 1993. Also interested in the philosophy of mathematics, Rosen is author of A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalist Reconstrual in Mathematics (with J. Burgess, 1997).
Lawrence Rosen joined the Princeton faculty in 1977 after teaching both anthropology and law at Duke University. Among the courses he has taught at Princeton are Anthropology of Law, Anthropology of the Middle East, Islamic Law, Indigenous Peoples and the Right of Cultural Integrity, and introductory anthropology. He graduated from Brandeis University and earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1968 and his JD from Chicago in 1974. He is the author of The Anthropology of Justice: Law as Culture in Islamic Society (1989, 1996) and editor of Other Intentions: Cultural Contexts and the Attribution of Inner States (1995).