Ten Women Appointed to Faculty Positions at Princeton University in New Jersey

Aisha Beliso-De Jesús has been named a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American studies. She had been a faculty member at Harvard Divinity School.

Dr. Beliso-De Jesús holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano and Latino studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in cultural and social anthropology from Stanford University.

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis has been named a professor of music. She was a distinguished professor and director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Margulis holds a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City.

Christina Lee has been named an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese. She had been a lecturer at Princeton since 2007.

Dr. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in romance languages and literatures from Princeton University.

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

Dr. Adamson holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in genetics and genomics from Harvard University.

Flora Champy has been named an assistant professor of French and Italian. Her research focuses on 18th-century French literature and culture.

Dr. Champy holds a bachelor’s degree from Ècole Normale Supérieure de Paris, a master’s degree in classics from Paris IV Sorbonne University, and a dual Ph.D. in French literature from the Ècole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Patricia Kirkland has been named an assistant professor of politics. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Dr. Kirkland holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Temple University in Philadelphia and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.

Sarah Kocher has been named an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. She has been an associate research scholar at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

Dr. Kocher holds a bachelor’s degree in integrative biology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University.

Eszter Posfai has been named an assistant professor of molecular biology, effective in the winter of 2019. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the SickKids Research Institute in Toronto.

Dr. Posfai holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in molecular biology and genetics from the University of Szeged in Hungary. and a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Michele Sarazen has been named an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, effective in the winter of 2019. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Georgia Institute in Technology.

Dr. Sarazen holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Maria Micaela Sviatschi has been named an assistant professor of economics. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the International Crisis Group and Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton.

Dr. Sviatschi holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in economics from the University of San Andres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.