Board approves 11 faculty appointments

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Princeton University’s Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 11 faculty members, including two full professors, one associate professor and eight assistant professors.

professor

Emily Milne (aka Emily Greenwood), in Classical Music and the University Center for Human Values, specializes in ancient Greek prose literature and classical receptions. Your appointment will take place on July 1, 2021.

Milne comes to Princeton from Yale University, where she has taught since 2009, most recently as professor of classics with a courtesy extension in African American studies. She previously taught at St. Andrews University from 2000 to 2008

She is the author of two books, Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Duckworth, 2006) and Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010). the joint winner of the 2011 Runciman Prize.

Milne earned Ph.D., M.Phil., MA, and BA from the University of Cambridge.

Thuy Linh Tu, in American Studies, specializes in Asian-American studies. Your appointment will take place on September 1st, 2022.

Tu will come to Princeton from New York University, where she has taught since 2008, most recently as Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She served as the department’s graduate studies director and director of NYU’s American Studies Program. She was also the associate director of NYU’s Prison Education Program.

Prior to joining NYU faculty, Tu was an assistant professor at Cornell University and Ohio State University. Tu was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Vassar College.

She is the author of “The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion” (Duke University Press, 2010), which won the Association for Asian American Studies’ Cultural Studies Book Prize, and is a finalist in the 2012 Association for Asian Romero Prize for American Studies.

Tu received her Ph.D. and an MA from New York University and a BA from Bates College.

Associate professor

Molly J. Crockett, in Psychology and the University Center for Human Values, specializes in experimental psychology. Your appointment will take place on July 1, 2022.

Crockett will join Princeton from Yale University, where she is an assistant professor. From 2014 to 2017 she also taught as an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford.

She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a BS from the University of California-Los Angeles.

Assistant Professor

Natalia Velez Alicea, in Psychology, will join the faculty in fall 2023. She specializes in cognitive and developmental psychology and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jay Cephas, in architecture, is coming to the faculty this summer. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, where he specializes in architecture and urbanism. He also taught at the University of Michigan. Cephas has an AM and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.Arch. from the University of Detroit Mercy.

Jonathan Conway, in chemical and bioengineering, joins the faculty in the fall. He specializes in chemical and bioengineering. Conway holds a Ph.D. and an MS from North Carolina State University and a BS from the University of Notre Dame.

John Grigsby, in Economics and Public Affairs, specializes in macroeconomics. He will join the faculty this summer. Grigsby holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a BA from Washington and Lee University.

Samuel Holzmann, in Art and Archeology and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, specializes in Greek architectural history and archeology. He joins the faculty on July 1st. He has a Ph.D. and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and a BA from Brown University.

Emma Hubert, in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, specializes in applied mathematics. She joins the faculty in the fall. Hubert obtained her Master 2 MASEF, Master 1 and the MEFA license from Paris-Dauphine University, France.

Elizaveta Rebrova, in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, specializes in high dimensional probability. She joins the faculty on July 1st. Rebrova currently teaches as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, BS and MS from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and MS from Yandex School of
Data analysis, Moscow.

Sam Trejo, in Sociology, specializes in computational methods and social science genomics. He will join the faculty this summer. He has a Ph.D. and two MA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of Texas-Austin.

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