Five Women Faculty Members Earn Emerita Status at Princeton University in New Jersey

Emily Carter, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been conferred the title of professor emerita. She has been a member of the Princeton faculty since 2004. Earlier in her career, she served as founding director of the university’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Over the course of her career, she has conducted research on creating quantum mechanical tools for understanding and analyzing the behaviors of large numbers of atoms and electrons in materials. She will become the executive vice chancellor and provost of the University of California, Los Angeles this upcoming academic year.

Dr. Carter is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.

Carol Greenhouse, the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Anthropology, has been conferred the title of professor emerita. She first joined the Princeton faculty in 2001. Her research focuses on the discursive and experiential dimensions of state power, especially federal power in the United States, and the reflexive and critical connections between ethnography and democracy. She is the author of Praying for Justice: Faith Order and Community in an American Town (Cornell University Press, 1989) and The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). She is the co-author of Transnational Law: Cases and Problems in an Interconnected World (Carolina Academic Publishers, 2017) and Law and Community in Three American Towns (Cornell University Press, 1994).

Dr. Greenhouse holds a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. both from Harvard University.

Andrea LaPaugh, professor of computer science, has been conferred the title of professor emerita. She first joined the Princeton faculty in 1981. She is a leading researcher on information discovery for large-scale digital collections, computer-aided design of digital systems, and algorithm foundations. From 2000 to 2004, she served as head of Forbes College, during which she participated in the planning for Princeton’s transition to the four-year residential college system.

Dr. LaPaugh is a graduate of Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jaqueline Stone, professor of religion, has been conferred the title of professor emerita. She is an internationally acclaimed leader in the study of Japanese Buddhism who first joined the Princeton faculty in 1990. Her current research areas include death and dying in Buddhist cultures, Buddhism and nationalism, and traditions of the “Lotus Sutra,” particularly Tendai and Nichiren. She is the author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (University of Hawaii Press, 1999) and Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2016).

Dr. Stone is a graduate of San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Virginia Zakian, the Harry C. Wiess Professor in the Life Sciences and a professor of molecular biology, has been conferred the title of professor emerita. A leading molecular geneticist, she joined the Princeton faculty in 1995. Her research focuses on DNA replication and chromosome structure in yeast, telomeres, and replication fork progression. She has contributed significant insights into the nature and function of telomeres, the unusual structures at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes.

Dr. Zakian is a graduate of Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.