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The following assistant professors have been appointed to the faculty. In Computer Science, Randolph Wang studies operating systems. He received a 1991 BS from the University of Texas, Austin and 1998 PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a researcher since 1991. In Economics, Pierre-Oliver Gourinchas studies macroeconomics. He has a 1993 Diplome d'Ingénieur from France's Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés and a 1996 PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been an assistant professor at Stanford University since 1996. Also in Economics, Han Hong's area of specialization is theoretical econometrics. He has a 1993 BA from Zhongshan University in China and 1997 MS and 1998 PhD degrees from Stanford University. Also in Economics, Marciano Siniscalchi is interested in game theory and financial markets. He has a 1992 BA from Universitá Commerciale Luigi Boccini in Italy and a 1998 PhD from Stanford. In Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School, Marianne Bertrand's field is labor economics and macro corporate finance. She has a 1991 BA and 1992 MSc from the Free University of Brussels and a 1998 PhD from Harvard University. Also in Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School, Jeffrey Kling is interested in labor economics. He has a 1992 AB from Harvard and 1998 PhD from MIT. In 1993 he was assistant to the chief economist at the World Bank and special assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. In English, Craig Dworkin studies contemporary poetry. He received a BA and MA in 1991 from Stanford and a 1998 PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. An instructor at Indiana Univesity in 1990, he was associate instructor at Berkeley for a year and instructor at Princeton last year. Also in English, Donna Jones's area is Afro-American literature. A 1985 graduate of Bennington College, she has a 1993 MA and 1998 PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has been an instructor at Princeton this past year. In Music, Simon Morrison's field specialization is musicology. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he has a 1993 MA from McGill University and 1994 MFA and 1997 PhD degrees from Princeton. He has been a lecturer here this past year. In Near Eastern Studies, Negin Nabavi studies modern Iranian history. He has a 1988 BA, 1990 MPhil and 1997 DPhil from Oxford University. Currently a lecturer, he has also been a part-time lecturer at the University of Manchester in England since 1997. In Physics, Andrew Orest works in experimental high energy physics. He has a 1988 BS and 1994 PhD from Columbia University. Before becoming a research associate at Princeton in 1996, he was a scientific associate at CERN in Switzerland for two years. In Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School, Kent Eaton studies comparative politics. He has a 1990 BA from Stanford and 1994 MA and 1998 PhD from Yale University. He worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Ecuador as a project assistant from 1990 to 1992. In Romance Languages and Literatures, Ricardo Krauel is interested in modern peninsular Spanish literature. He has a 1990 BA from the University of Malaga, a 1993 MA from the University of Ottawa and a 1998 PhD from Brown University. Also in Romance Languages and Literatures, Volker Schröder's field is 17th century French literature. He has a 1985 BA and 1989 MA from the University of Tübingen and a 1988 MA from the University of Washington. He received his PhD in 1998 from Eberhard Karl University in Tübingen. In the Woodrow Wilson School, Denise Mauzerall specializes in atmospheric science. A 1985 graduate of Brown, she has a 1988 MS from Stanford and 1992 MA and 1996 PhD degrees from Harvard. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder since 1996 and a part-time lecturer at the University of Cambridge since 1997. All appointments are for three years starting July 1, except those of Gourinchas, which began August 1; Dworkin and Jones, which began September 1; and Mauzerall and Wang, which are for three and a half years, and Morrison and Nabavi for two and a half years, beginning February 1, 1999.
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