From the Princeton Weekly Bulletin, November 17, 1997
Trustees name nine assistant professors
Nine new assistant professors were appointed to the faculty at the November 1 meeting of the trustees.
In Art and Archaeology, Anne-Marie Bouché is a historian of medieval art. She has a 1974 BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a 1976 MLS from the University of California, Berkeley; and 1987 MA, 1988 MPhil and 1994 PhD degrees from Columbia University. An adjunct professor at Long Island University this past year, she has also been a librarian at Mills College and a research assistant at the Cloisters Museum in New York City.
In Computer Science, Thomas Funkhouser's field is computer graphics. A 1983 graduate of Stanford University, he has a 1989 MS from the University of California, Los Angeles and a 1993 PhD from Berkeley. He has been a technical staff member at Bell Labs since 1993.
In Physics, Ori Ganor is interested in particle theory. He received a 1988 BSc and 1996 PhD from Tel Aviv University, and he has been a research staff member at Princeton since 1996.
In Philosophy, Delia Graff studies philosophy of language and metaphysics. A 1991 graduate of Harvard University, she has a 1997 PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In Classics, John Ta-chiang Ma is interested in Hellenistic Greek history. He has a 1991 BA and 1997 DPhil from Oxford University.
In Physics, David Nice specializes in astrophysics. A 1987 graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his PhD at Princeton in 1992. After being a research associate at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and a lecturer at the University of Virginia, he returned to Princeton as a lecturer in 1996.
In Molecular Biology, Joe Zhuo Tsien's field is neurobiology. In 1984 he graduated with an BS from East China Normal University, where he remained an instructor from 1984 to 1986. He earned his PhD from Columbia in 1993 and has been a postdoctoral associate at MIT since then.
In History, Richard Turits's area of specialization is Caribbean history. A 1983 graduate of Brown University, he has a 1986 MA from Yale University and 1997 PhD from the University of Chicago, where he has been a teaching fellow since 1996.
In Economics, Paul Willen is interested in applied microeconomics, financial economics and international finance. A 1990 graduate of Williams College, he has a 1994 MA, 1996 MPhil and 1997 PhD from Yale. He was a research associate at Cummins Engine Co. from 1990 to 1991 and at the Economic Strategy Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1992.
All appointments are for three years starting September 1, except those of Tsien, Willen and Nice, which began July 1, and Ganor, which begins July 1, 1998; and Funkhouser's, which is for three and one-half years, beginning February 1, 1998.
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