Board approves 13 faculty appointments (Princeton University)

(Source: Princeton University) Board approves 13 faculty appointments Posted September 30, 2013; 02:45 p.m. by Ushma Patel, Office of Communications The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointments of 13 faculty members, including one full professor, one associate professor and 11 assistant professors. Professor Thomas Conlan, in East Asian studies and history, joined the faculty on July 1, 2013, from Bowdoin College, where he had been a faculty member since 1998. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he earned his doctoral degree in history at Stanford University. Conlan's research focuses on the political, social and intellectual transformations of Japan...