From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, June 23, 1997
Four faculty members receive promotion to full professor
Four associate professors have been promoted to the rank of professor as of July 1.
In Art and Archaeology, Robert Bagley specializes in Chinese art and archaeology. He teaches courses in Chinese archaeology and art history.
Among his recent publications are numerous entries on Chinese archaeology and metallurgy in The Dictionary of Art (1996), as well as "Shang Archaeology" for the upcoming Cambridge History of Ancient China . He has also contributed chapters to a history of Chinese art published in Italian (Pirazzoli, La Cina, 1995). Author of many articles on Chinese archaeology and metal technology, Bagley edited Art of the Houma Foundry (1996). In progress is "a study of bronze bells excavated from a royal tomb of the fifth century BC--the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng," he says.
Bagley earned both his AB and his 1981 PhD from Harvard University, where he taught fine arts before coming to Princeton in 1985.
In the same department, Patricia Fortini Brown has been at Princeton since 1983. Her area of expertise is Venetian art. She has taught courses in Venetian Art, Italian Trecento Art, Italian Renaissance Painting and Sculpture, Portraiture in Early Modern Europe, and Women and the Arts in the Renaissance.
Brown is author of The Renaissance in Venice: A World Apart (1997), Venice and Antiquity: The Venetian Sense of the Past (1996) and Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio (1988), and she is beginning research on a book on art and private life in the Renaissance, she says. "The first phase deals with the idea of nobility and the material culture of Venetian elites."
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Brown earned her PhD from Berkeley in 1983.
In Germanic Languages and Literatures, Michael Jennings joined the University faculty in 1981. He has taught courses in German Literature from the Enlightenment to the present, and in literary and cultural theory for his department, the Department of Comparative Literature and in the Program in European Cultural Studies.
He is general editor of Walter Benjamin's Collected Works , the first volume of which was published in 1996. Author of a monograph on Benjamin's theory of literary criticism, he has also published articles on Kafka, Alfred Döblin, Wilhelm Worringer and Alois Riegl. He is currently completing a study of cultural politics in the Weimar Republic, as well as the second volume of the Benjamin edition.
Master of Rockefeller College since 1990, Jennings is a graduate of Dartmouth College, with a master's degree from Yale Divinity School and a 1981 PhD from the University of Virginia.
In Politics, Maurizio Viroli's recent research has been in modern republican political theory and the theory of republican patriotism. He is working on an examination of classical Greek and Roman works and their legacy in the texts of Renaissance political theorists, and studying the decline and survival of political rhetoric in the works of modern political theorists.
At Princeton since 1987, Viroli has taught introductory political theory, Modern Political Theory, and seminars on Patriotism and Nationalism and on Cultural Interpretation. He is the author of From Politics to Reason of State: The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics (1250-1600) (1992) and For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism (1995). His most recent book, "Machiavelli," is about to be issued by Oxford University Press.
A graduate of the University of Bologna, he earned his PhD in 1985 from the European University Institute in Florence.