Linguistics professor Marguerite Browning has been chosen to succeed Professor Miguel Centeno as master of Wilson College. Effective July 1, Browning will be responsible for the academic, social and emotional health of the Wilson College community.
"I could not be happier with the selection. Professor Browning has the precise combination of intellectual interests and mentoring instincts that make for a great master," Centeno said. "I have already been working with her on the selection of RCAs, and I envy Wilson students during the next four years."
Browning is away and could not be reached for comment.
Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel and Dean of Undergraduate Students Kathleen Deignan led the selection process.
"Professor Browning clearly combines qualities that make for outstanding success in residential college masterships: excellence in undergraduate teaching; experience and skill in administration; an ample measure of levelheadedness and sound judgment; and obvious enjoyment of students," they wrote in their email announcement to Wilson College students.
Centeno said he will miss his time at Wilson.
"First and foremost, I will miss having a very different take on student life than you get in the classroom," he said. "I will especially miss working with the RCAs, as that has been one of my best interactions with students in my entire career. I will also miss working with a great staff and the sense of a collective enterprise. Finally, I will really miss the faculty fellows and learning about work and experiences outside of my specialty."
However, Centeno said he will not miss vegetarian entrees in Wilcox dining hall or proctors informing him of "disgusting weekend behavior."
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Browning came to Princeton as an assistant professor of Linguistics in 1990. After her promotion to associate professor, she served as the director of the Program in Linguistics from 1997 to 2001.
In her scholarly work, Browning has focused on how people come to know and understand the sentence structure of their native languages.
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