Princeton University Assigns Emeritus Status to 32 Faculty Members: Four Are Women

Princeton University, the Ivy League institution in New Jersey, has announced that 32 faculty members have been awarded emeritus status. Of these 32 faculty members, four are women.

Marie-Helene Huet joined the Princeton faculty in 1999 and has been serving as the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French and Italian at the university. Her research has focused on 18th- and 19th-century French literature. Before joining the Princeton faculty, she taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Amherst College in Massachusetts, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux.

Chiara Nappi is retiring as a professor of physics. She has been a member of the Princeton community for nearly 30 years, teaching both at the university and the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1999 to 2001, she taught at the University of Southern California and then returned to Princeton University as a full professor. Professor Nappi holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Naples.

Susan Naquin is a historian who focuses on late imperial China. She has been serving as a professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton. She joined the Princeton faculty in 1993 after teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her books is Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (University of California Press, 2000). Professor Naquin is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. She will transfer to emerita status on September 1. She served as dean of the Wilson School from 2002 to 2011. Before joining the Princeton faculty in 2002, she taught at Harvard University and the law school of the University of Chicago.

Professor Slaughter is a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Law School. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Oxford. She is the author of A New World Order (Princeton University Press, 2004) and The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values in a Dangerous World (Basic Books, 2007).