Princeton University Adds Five Women to Its Faculty

Princeton University, the highly rated Ivy League institution in New Jersey, has announced the hiring of 19 new faculty members. Five of the new hires are women.

Kathryn Chenoweth was appointed assistant professor of French and Italian. She was an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Dr. Chenoweth is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Regina Kunzel was appointed the Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s Studies. She was a professor at the University of Minnesota and previously taught at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Professor Kunzel is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University.

Sabine Petry was named an assistant professor of molecular biology. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at San Francisco.

Dr. Petry earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees  from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She earned a Ph.D. from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jennifer Rampling was appointed assistant professor of history. Her research focuses on the history of science. She has been serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cambridge University.

She holds a master’s degree from the University of London, a law degree from the University of Hull, and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Dara Strolovitch was named associate professor of gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Dr. Strolovitch  is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University.