The Woodrow Wilson School has hired several new faculty members, including three practitioners and five junior professors. In addition, two Princeton faculty have been jointly appointed to the School.

Jim Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Iceland from 2002 to 2005, will join the School as Diplomat-in-Residence.  Gadsen is a career Foreign Service Officer with three decades of experience with the State Department, in Washington D.C. and abroad. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Harvard University in 1970 and a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. He continued graduate studies in economics at Princeton in 1984.

Hugh Price joins the School as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Company Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs.  A senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Price served as the president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League from 1994 to 2003. He writes on issues related to education, civil rights, equal opportunity and criminal justice.

Ambassador Francesc Vendrell, recently the European Union’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, will join the School as the Frederick H. Schultz '51 Professor of International Policy. Vendrell started his career at the United Nations in 1968 and held a number of positions until 2000, including director of Asia and the Pacific Division at the U.N Department of Political Affairs and personal representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan.

Jan de Loecker will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs. Most recently at New York University, his research focuses on industry dynamics using firm-level and product-level data, with a particular focus on productivity and the role of international trade.

Amy Lerman will join the faculty from the University of California.  She will have a dual appointment with the Department of Politics as an Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs.  Her research is focused in the areas of bureaucracy, political behavior, public policy and civil society.  She is particularly interested in issues related to social identity, political participation and compliance.

Taryn Dinkelman will join the School and the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs.  Dinkelman’s areas of interest are in development economics and labor economics. Her secondary fields of research include economic demography, health economics and applied econometrics.

Elizabeth Levy Paluck will join WWS and the Department of Psychology in September 2009.  Currently at Harvard, her research interests include prejudice and conflict reduction; the role of media, community dialogue, and education; media, citizen discussion, democratic attitudes and behaviors; and poverty and conflict prevention. She earned a Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University.

Bradley Simpson, currently at the University of Maryland, will join the School and the Department of History as an Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs. His research focuses on twentieth century U.S. foreign relations and international history. His first book, “Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S. – Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968” explores the intersection of anti-communism and modernization ideology in shaping U.S.-Indonesian relations during the 1960s. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

New joint appointments include Stephen Kotkin, the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Director of the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies at Princeton. Kotkin teaches world history, Soviet history, global cities, and a course on dictators and dictatorships.

Paul DiMaggio, a Professor of Sociology at Princeton, will have a joint appointment at WWS as well.  He is currently studying the impact of social class on use of new digital technologies and the connection between Internet use and income.