Professors named to endowed chairs
These professors have been named to endowed chairs:
Arcadio Diaz-Quiñones, Emory L. Ford Professor
of Spanish; Robert George, McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence; F. Duncan Haldane, Eugene Higgins
Professor of Physics; Gilbert Harman, Stuart
Professor of Philosophy; George Kateb, William Nelson
Cromwell Professor in the Politics Department; Burton
Singer, Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public
and International Affairs; and Marta Tienda, Maurice
P. During Professor in Demographic Studies. Alexander
Polyakov was named Joseph Henry Professor of
Physics.
Trustees promote seven
Seven associate professors were promoted to professor by
the trustees, effective July 1.
In the Woodrow Wilson School, Aaron Friedberg
joined the faculty in 1987 and was promoted to tenure in
1993. He is interested in international security studies,
and US foreign and defense policies. His most recent book,
"In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism
and its Cold War Grand Strategy," is forthcoming from
Princeton University Press. He directs the Research Program
in International Security.
Also in the Woodrow Wilson School, Jeffrey Herbst
came to Princeton as lecturer in 1987, and became assistant
professor in 1988 and associate professor in 1994. He is
director of the Council on Regional Studies as well as of
the Program in African Studies. He studies African politics,
economic policy-making in the Third World and international
political economy.
In the Politics Department, Robert George studies
theories of law, natural law theories, constitutional law
and theory, and problems of religion and politics. He came
to Princeton in 1986 and was promoted to associate professor
in 1993. General editor of New Forum Books, a series
of works on law, culture and politics, he is also author of
In Defense of Natural Law (1999).
M. Sukru Hanioglu of Near Eastern Studies joined
the faculty as associate professor in 1992 and received
tenure in 1995. He is a specialist in Ottoman history. His
book, "Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks
1902-1908," is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
In Electrical Engineering, Sharad Malik studies
design automation for digital systems. He teaches courses in
logic design, computer-aided design of digital systems and
embedded computer systems. At Princeton since 1991, he
became associate professor in 1996.
In Electrical Engineering and the Princeton Materials
Institute, Mordechai Segev came to Princeton since
1994 and was promoted to tenure in 1997. He studies
nonlinear optics and quantum electronics. Current projects
involve solitons, nonlinear frequency conversion, nonlinear
guided waves, nonlinear dynamics and photorefractive
materials. He teaches optical electronics.
A member of the Psychology Department since 1980,
Susan Sugarman became associate professor in 1987.
Combining her interest in the psychology of ordinary mental
life and developmental psychology, she studies human
experiences whose nature may become illuminated through the
comparison of children and adults. Author of Freud on the
Acropolis: Reflections on a Paradoxical Response to the
Real (1998), she is currently at work on a book on
choice and freedom.
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