The board of trustees of Princeton University in New Jersey has announced the hiring of five new assistant professors. Three of the five new hires are women.
Erin Yu-Tien Huang will join the faculty on September 1 as an assistant professor of East Asian studies and comparative literature. She currently is a visiting assistant professor at New York University and previously taught at Irvine Valley College in California. Dr. Huang is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California at Irvine.
Beatrice Kitzinger will join the Princeton faculty in July as an assistant professor of art and archaeology. A specialist in medieval art history, Dr. Kitzinger is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University in California. Dr. Kitzinger holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.
Barbara N. Nagel will be an assistant professor of German at Princeton. Her appointment is effective on September 1. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Dr. Nagel is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin in Germany. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University.