Princeton - PWB 060799 - Board names nine to tenured faculty

Princeton Weekly Bulletin June 7, 1999

Board names nine to tenured faculty

At its quarterly meeting on May 31, the board of trustees approved the appointment of nine new members of the tenured faculty.

Weinan E, Marie-Hélène Huet, Janos Kollar, Stephen Macedo, Jose Scheinkman, Christopher Sims and Winston Soboyejo were appointed as professors, and Vincanne Adams and Shaun Marmon were promoted to the tenured position of associate professor.

All appointments are effective July 1, except E's, which begins September 1.

E is to be professor of mathematics and applied and computational mathematics. He works especially in the areas of boundary layer theory, computational fluid dynamics and material sciences.

A 1982 graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China with a 1985 MS from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, E earned his PhD at the University of California in 1989. He was a visiting member of the Courant Institute for two years and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study for three years before joining the Courant Institute as associate professor in 1994. Now professor there, he was awarded a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1993 and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1997.

Huet, who specializes in 18th century French literature, has been named M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Currently F.G.L. Huetwell Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she earned her PhD in 1968 at the University of Bordeaux and then joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught for 17 years. In 1985 she went to Amherst College, where she taught for eight years, in addition to spending a semester as seminar director at the Folger Library and a year at the University of Virginia. She has been at Michigan since 1996.

Among her publications are books on Jules Verne, on the 18th century novel and on the French Revolution. The most recent are Monstrous Imagination (1993, winner of the Harry Levin Prize in Comparative Literature) and Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (1997).

Kollar is to be professor of mathematics; his field is algebraic geometry. With a 1980 BS from Eötvös University in Hungary, he earned his 1984 PhD at Brandeis University. After a year as research assistant at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard for three years. In 1987 he joined the faculty at the University of Utah, and in 1994 he became Distinguished Professor there.

Named a Presidential Young Investigator in 1988 and a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1989, Kollar received the University of Utah's Distinguished Research Award in 1992 and was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995. Author of more than 60 articles and editor of three volumes of conference proceedings, he serves as editor of several journals, including the Annals of Mathematics and Periodica Mathematica Hungarica.

Political theorist Macedo has been named Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values. Professor at Syracuse University since 1994, he earned his 1979 BA at the College of William and Mary and his 1987 PhD at Princeton. He also holds a 1980 MSc from the London School of Economics and a 1985 MLitt from Oxford. In 1986 he went to Harvard, where he was a member of the faculty for eight years before going to Syracuse.

Among his publications are Liberalism, Civic Education and Diversity (1999), Liberal Virtues: Citizenship, Virtue and Community in Liberal Constitutionalism (1990) and The New Right v. the Constitution (1987), as well as several edited volumes.

Scheinkman, who works in the areas of economic theory and finance, has been named Theodore A. Wels '29 Professor of Economics. A 1969 graduate of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a 1970 MS from the Brazilian Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, he earned his 1974 PhD at the University of Rochester. A member of the faculty at the University of Chicago since 1973, he was named A.H. Baum Professor in 1987 and was a vice president at Goldman, Sachs and Co. in 1987-88.

Scheinkman's research has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation. His publications include nearly 60 articles in professional journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Quarterly Journal of Economics, as well as book chapters. He is an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute.

Sims, professor of economics, is especially interested in econometric theory for dynamic models and macroeconomic theory and policy.

He was educated at Harvard, where he earned his BA in 1963 and his PhD in 1968 and was assistant professor for two years before spending a year as a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1970 he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota and taught there for 20 years before going to Yale, where he has been Henry Ford II Professor of Economics since 1990.

Soboyejo has been appointed professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute. His main areas of research are fatigue and fracture of materials, the development of advanced materials and their composites, and the application of fracture mechanics to the prediction of structural life. His research has been supported by Research Initiation and Young Investigator awards from the National Science Foundation and by the Office of Naval Research.

Currently associate professor at Ohio State University, he earned his 1985 BSc at London University and his 1988 PhD at Cambridge University. He was a research scientist at McDonnell Douglas Research Labs for four years while serving as adjunct faculty at the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois. He joined the faculty at Ohio State in 1992.

Associate professors

Vincanne Adams (photo by Denise Applewhite)

In Anthropology, Adams is a medical anthropologist. She specializes in ethnomedicine, the study of nonWestern medical systems and the social politics of health and healing. Since 1982 she has been engaged in a study of Tibetan medicine; her current project examines the Tibetan medical approach to issues of women's health. She is also working on a "larger and transnational" examination of "how to negotiate between dissonant medical theories, such as Tibetan or other Asian medicines, and Western biomedicine." At Princeton she teaches courses on Medical Anthropology, and Transnational Culture and Power.

Adams earned her BA at Brown University in 1982 and her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 1989. She came to Princeton as 1992 as assistant professor, after teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Keele in England. She is author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution (1998) and Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters (1996).

Her research has been supported by Princeton, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Shaun Marmon (photo by Denise Applewhite)

Marmon, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1992, is in the Department of Religion. Her field is Islamic history and religion with a particular focus on the culture of the Mamluk Empire. Her teaching interests include Islamic religion and culture, holy war and martyrdom, and gender and sexuality within the Islamic tradition. Research interests include Islamic ritual, domestic slavery in Islamic societies and the study of gender. Author of Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries in Islamic Society (1995), she is also editor of Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (1999).

A graduate of the University of Texas, Austin, Marmon received her MA from Yale and her 1990 PhD from Princeton. Before joining the faculty, Marmon was a Mellon Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and then taught at the University of Rhode Island. She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1991 to 1993.

Her forthcoming book, "The Quality of Mercy: Intercession and Personal Honor in an Islamic Society," deals with "the political and social dimensions of the intertwined discourses of sacred and secular intercession in Mamluk urban culture."