Five members of the faculty at Princeton University in New Jersey have been named to endowed professorships. Four of these appointments went to women.
Anne Anlin Cheng was named the Louis W. Fairchild ’24 Professor of English. Dr. Cheng is affiliated faculty in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and on the Committee on Film Studies, and former director of the Program in American Studies. She works primarily with twentieth-century American literature and visual culture with special focus on Asian American and African American literatures. Her most recent book is Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (Pantheon, 2024). A native of Taiwan, Professor Cheng Cheng received a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing at Princeton University. She holds a master’s degree in English and creative writing from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jenny Greene was appointed the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysical Sciences. Dr. Greene began her career at Princeton in 2011 as an assistant professor of astrophysical sciences. Earlier she was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Greene studies massive black holes and the galaxies that they live in, using big and small telescopes across the electro-magnetic spectrum. In addition, Professor Greene is the co-founder and academic advisor to the Prison Teaching Initiative at Princeton. Dr. Greene is a graduate of Yale University, where she majored in astronomy and physics. She earned her Ph.D. in astronomy at Harvard University.
Margaret Martonosi was designated as the William M. Addy ’82 University Professor. Professor Martonosi joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1994. For three years, she served as associate dean for academic affairs for the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research area is computer architecture, with contributions to both classical and quantum hardware and software systems. Dr. Martonosi is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Olga Troyanskaya was appointed the Maduraperuma/Khot Professor of Computer Science. She has been on the Princeton faculty since 2003. She teaches within the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and is the director of Princeton Precision Health. Dr. Troyanskaya is affiliated with the department of molecular biology and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute. Professor Troyanskaya holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and computer science from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.