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

Jim Gadsden MCF ’85, U.S. ambassador to Iceland from 2002 to 2005, will join the School as diplomat-in-residence. Gadsden 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 and 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.

Steven Simon MPA ’83, most recently the Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, has also received an appointment as the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs and Company Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs. His expertise is in the areas of U.S. security policy in the Middle East and south Asia, Middle East politics, Palestinian–Israeli relations, transatlantic approaches to Islamic activism, terrorism and counterterrorism, and intelligence reform.

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 UN Department of Political Affairs, 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- and product-level data, with a particular focus on productivity and the role of international trade.

Taryn Dinkelman, from the University of Michigan, will join the School 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.

Amy Lerman will join the faculty from the University of California 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.

Georges Reniers, recently a research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has been appointed as an assistant professor of sociology and public affairs. His research interests include social demography, demographic methods, population health and mortality, and HIV/AIDS. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bradley Simpson, currently at the University of Maryland, will join the School 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 (Stanford University Press, 2008) 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 the University. 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 currently is studying the impact of social class on the use of new digital technologies and the connection between Internet use and income