The Board of Trustees appointed new faculty members earlier this year to accommodate new areas of research and fill vacancies in several departments. The board hired an associate professor, 15 assistant professors and one senior lecturer.
New associate professor Nolan McCarthy holds a joint appointment in politics and the Wilson School. McCarthy, who focuses in the political process of policymaking and the institutional workings of government, fills a void in the politics department created by recent departures of several recent faculty members specializing in American politics.
McCarthy currently teaches a graduate seminar on American institutions and hopes to teach an undergraduate course in the spring on the historical development of various institutions.
He holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Chicago and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon. Prior to coming to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University for five years.
The politics department also hired Evan Lieberman '92 as assistant professor. Lieberman, who will assume his position next year after finishing his postdoctoral work at Yale, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. His area of expertise is comparative politics and he has published a book about comparative national tax policy.
New assistant professor of economics and public policy Adrian Lleras-Muney earned her M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia.
The humanities and visual arts programs promoted Eve Aschheim to the position of senior lecturer. Aschheim, an abstract painter who focuses her work on structure and improvisation, teaches drawing and painting. She received her B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley and her M.F.A. from the University of California-Davis.
The chemistry department, which has expanded in recent years, hired a new assistant professor this year. Chulbom Lee, a specialist in organic and bio-organic chemistry, earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. from Stanford.
In French and Italian, the search for an assistant professor resulted in two assistant professors being hired. Aissata Sidikou-Morton earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Université de Niamey, Niger, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in West African French literature and oral literature. She plans to teach a comparative literature course on West Africa. André Benhain is coming to Princeton from France. He was educated in the United States.
Like the French and Italian department, the history department hired two new assistant professors. Graham Burnett '93, who specializes in history of science with an emphasis on cartography and its development in an imperialistic context, earned M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. Marc Rodriguez, whose area of interest is the U.S. Southwest, plans to teach a course in Latin-American history.
In mathematics, the search for a new assistant professor brought Diego Cordoba back to the Princeton where he did his graduate work. Cordoba earned his 1996 M.S. degree and 1998 Ph.D. degree from Princeton after graduating from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He currently works on harmonic analysis.
In operations research and financial engineering, new assistant professor Damir Filipovic comes to Princeton from the Swiss technical school Edigenössische Technische Hochschule. His area of expertise is mathematical finance.
The philosophy department welcomed two new assistant professors this year. Hans Halvorson graduated from Calvin College and received two M.A. degrees in philosophy and mathematics and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Hendrik Lorenz comes to Princeton with B.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Cambridge and a Ph.D. degree from Oxford.
The psychology department hired two new assistant professors of neuroscience, Michael Graziano and Kenneth Norman. Graziano earned his 1989 B.A. and 1996 Ph.D. degrees from Princeton. Norman is a graduate of Stanford University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
New slavic languages assistant professor Mirjam Fried earned her B.A. degree from Charles University in Prague and her M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of California-Berkeley. She will fill department chair Charles Townsend's vacancy after he steps down at the end of this year.
The sociology department also hired a new assistant professor, Scott Lynch, who received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Arkansas and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University.
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