Tilghman administration brings familiar faces back to Nassau Hall

University academic and administrative appointments for 2002-2003 brought some tigers back to Nassau Hall while introducing fresh talents across a range of departments.

This past fall's administrative reorganization separated the responsibilities formerly combined in the position of vice president for finance and administration.

Christopher McCrudden, treasurer of the University, will assume senior level responsibility for finance-related issues on September 1. Trustees appointed Charles Kalmbach '68 senior vice president for administration in April and he will begin work effective June 1.

"During my first few months in office, I have become persuaded that we should make this significant structural change," Tilghman said last September of her decision to separate the two administrative departments.

Richard Spies GS '72, former vice president for finance and administration, left on January 1 after 13 years at the University.

"Dick will leave an indelible mark on much of the University through the financial strength that he has helped to insure, through the policies and procedures he has helped to develop and through a variety of projects in which he has provided exceptional leadership," Tilghman said.

Joan Doig, former vice president for human resources, retired last December. Daniel Scheiner, former director of compensation, systems and operations in the human resources office, is serving as acting vice president for human resources until Doig's replacement can be found.

Back to schools

Two University alumni will soon return to their respective schools in new roles and with new visions.

On September 1, Anne-Marie Slaughter '80 will succeed Michael Rothschild as dean of the Wilson School. She currently serves as the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard University and as a professor in Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Slaughter concentrates her teaching and research on global governance, international tribunals and interdisciplinary analyses of international legal issues. President of the American Society of International Law and a highly respected expert on international law, Slaughter actively participates as a presenter in scholarly conferences and debates.

The first woman to be appointed to the post, Slaughter said she looks forward to assuming the deanship of the Wilson School.

"It is a great honor and tremendous opportunity to come back as dean," Slaughter said.

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On July 1, Stan Allen GS '88 — an educator and practicing architect in New York City — will become dean of the University's School of Architecture, taking over for Ralph Lerner who last June announced his intention to step down after 13 years as dean.

A registered architect, Allen is founding principal and director of Field Operations, an interdisciplinary design firm in partnership with landscape architect James Corner. The firm recently won a design competition for the re-use of Fresh Kills in Staten Island, the world's largest landfill site. In 2000, Allen and Corner also won a design competition for a garden at the French consulate in New York.

"As an architect who has always had a deep commitment to teaching, I am very excited by the challenge of the Princeton deanship," Allen said.

Potent professors

Cornel West GS '80, the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard, will return to the University as the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion. A Princeton faculty member from 1988 through 1994 and former director of the University's Program in African-American studies, West holds national prominence as a scholar of religion.

West is joined by Kwame Anthony Appiah, another Harvard professor appointed to the University's Center for Human Values and philosophy department in January. Appiah had been a professor of philosophy at Harvard since 1991 and is a specialist in African and African-American studies, culture and identity.

Eddie Glaude, associate professor of religion and Africana studies at Bowdoin College, will also join the Department of Religion in the fall. Glaude is the author of "Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America" and co-editor, with West, of "African American Religious Studies: An Anthology."

Princeton's math department has also secured two new talents. Andrei Okounkov and Rahul Pandharipande will join the faculty as professors in the fall.

Okounkov concentrates on representation theory, the study of representations of algebraic objects by matrices. He received his bachelor's degree and doctorate in mathematics from Moscow State University and was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2000.

Pandharipande specializes in geometry. He earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton where he received the department's top senior award, and his doctorate in mathematics at Harvard University. He has received numerous fellowships including graduate and postdoctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

The appointment of acclaimed novelist Chang-rae Lee as professor in the Council of the Humanities and creative writing program adds a fresh voice to the program.

Lee, professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Hunter College of the City University of New York, taught at the University last fall under a joint appointment in the creative writing and East Asian studies programs.

Lee's debut novel, "Native Speaker," garnered much critical acclaim and won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and American Book Award, among other honors.