Princeton University Honors Faculty Members Receiving Emeritus Status June 2007
The biographical sketches were written by colleagues in the epartments of those honore.
Contents Paul Benacerraf Page 5 Nancy Bermeo Page 8 Herman Sergeevich Ermolaev Page 13 Sam Glucksberg Page 17 Maitlan Jones Jr. Page 20 Daniel Kahneman Page 23 Ulrich Camillus Knoepflmacher Page 26 Suzanne Crelly Nash Page 30 Anrew Henry Plaks Page 32 Thomas George Spiro Page 34 Howar Francis Taylor Page 37 Scott Duncan Tremaine Page 40 John Ralph Willis Page 42 John Wilmering Page 44
Nancy Bermeo In the 25 years that Nancy Bermeo has been at Princeton, she has mae a profoun an enuring impact on the University an the profession at large. She has been an exemplary scholar, colleague, mentor, an frien. Nancy receive her unergrauate egree from Mount Holyoke College an her Ph.D. from Yale University (both in political science). After a brief stint as an assistant professor at Dartmouth College, she came to Princeton as a visiting assistant professor in 1982 an subsequently joine the Princeton politics faculty the following year. Committe to substantively important questions an rich theoretical ebate, Nancy has been a leaing scholar of regime change, labor, civil society, learning, an institutional esign. She has publishe two outstaning single-authore books, six co-eite volumes, an numerous articles that have shape social science ebate. She is also the recipient of prestigious grants an fellowships from the Fulbright Association, the Social Science Research Council, the German Marshall Fun, the Carnegie Enowment, the C.N.R.S. in France, the Luso American Development Founation in Portugal, an the Center of Avance Stuy in Mari. As a whole, her writings emonstrate an exemplary ability to ientify cutting-ege questions that avance both our theoretical, political, an normative unerstaning of the key issues of our time particularly revolution, emocracy, regime change, labor politics, feeralism, an political learning. Strikingly, her work has contribute to our unerstaning of these processes aroun the worl. While she starte off working on Southern Europe, her work has come also to inclue comparative writing about Western Europe, the Soviet Union an Eastern Europe, 8
an Latin America. Her recent research, in fact, has taken her to work on parts of the eveloping worl, incluing Africa an Asia. As such, Nancy has emerge as a scholar of great theoretical insight an tremenous comparative reach. Her first book, The Revolution within the Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1986), analyze the emergence an taming of agrarian raicalism in the Portuguese revolution of the 1970s. It was a etaile stuy of how workers an peasants in Portugal organize workers collectives in southern Portugal, contributing to regime change, but then also how some of their gains were subsequently compromise uner the new emocratic regime. Her original fielwork an writings refine our unerstaning of agrarian raicalism an greatly contribute to our unerstaning of the possibility of socialism within emocracy. The book was applaue by leaing political scientists for its empirics, theoretical precision, imagination, an luciity. Nancy subsequently shape our unerstaning of labor an unemployment, feeralism, an civil society through many co-eite volumes an articles incluing Liberalization an Democratization: Change in the Soviet Union an Eastern Europe (1992); Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences (2000); Civil Society before Democracy: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Europe (e., with Philip Nor, 2000); Unemployment in the New Europe (2001); Who Governs Southern Europe? (e., with Antonio Costa Pinto an Pero e Almeia, 2003); an Feeralism an Territorial Cleavages (e., with Ugo Amoretti, 2004). Her book, Orinary People in Extraorinary Times: The Citizenry an Collapse of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2003) went on to receive the 2004 Best Book Awar from the American Political Science Association s Democratization Section an was name a 2005 Outstaning Acaemic Title from Choice Magazine. This lanmark comparative stuy of emocratic breakown in Europe an Latin America is a 9
sweeping 17-country stuy of Europe an Latin America. This book has proven ecisive in estroying the prevailing iea that emocracies break own mainly ue to polarize mass politics. Inee, Orinary People is a evastating critique of prevailing arguments about mass polarization an regime breakown, as Nancy emonstrates that elites (not the citizenry at large) were overwhelmingly responsible for the erosion of emocracy an its ultimate overthrow. As Michael Bernhar writes, Luci an compelling, this book will change the way in which comparative politics conceives of the polarization of politics associate with the failure of emocracy. It will be an enuring contribution. Alfre Stepan, a leaing scholar of regimes change, states: Comparative politics nees more books like this Her book will force a major reconceptualization of what voter polarization means. This book has emerge as a major book in stuies of regime change. At present, Nancy is writing a much-anticipate book aressing the prospects for emocracy in countries that have experience war a question of central theoretical concern to the social sciences an of central political interest to the worl at large. She is investigating how the experience of war affects political elites an political institutions; an secon, how institutions can be structure to mitigate an manage ealy political ivisions. This work has le her to conuct research an lecture all over the worl. While Nancy s acaemic work an teaching have earne the respect of her colleagues an stuents, her eication as a citizen has earne her the gratitue of the entire University. Nancy was an excellent interim politics epartment chair an outstaning irector of grauate stuies. In aition, she has serve on the executive committee for the Program in the Stuy of Women an Gener, the Program in Latin American Stuies, European Stuies, an the James Maison Program, as well as on the interepartmental committee for the Fun for Irish Stuies. So too, she has playe an active role in the 10
profession s American Political Science Association serving as vice presient of the emocratization section of APSA in 2002 03, chairing the comparative politics section for the annual meetings in 1996 97; chairing the Western European section for the annual meetings in 1992 93, an chairing several prize committees. Otherwise state, Nancy has not only stuie emocracy but also practice it, trying to bring the civic-mineness of a goo emocrat to her scholarship an University work. Nancy s effort to promote greater gener equity has been particularly noteworthy in this regar. She has been an influential an inspiring mentor to younger women within the Department of Politics an a value colleague to women faculty members across the campus. Nancy serve for a number of years on the faculty committee of the Program in the Stuy of Women an Gener an was an active participant in many iscussions hel in recent years about the status of women faculty at Princeton. Nancy s colleagues have highlighte her consistent an eep commitment to collaboration. In aition to the eite volumes, she has been a proactive organizer of seminars both within the Department of Politics an in collaboration with others across the University. In aition to chairing the Comparative Politics Seminar series, she also co-organize a social science an history seminar that fostere ynamic intellectual iscussion across the isciplines. Moreover, she has been a longstaning senior member of leaing eitorial boars incluing Worl Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Southern European Politics an Society, an Journal of Democracy. Along with her position on various executive committees across the University, Nancy has playe an important role in stimulating an institutionalizing University-wie iscussions an professional scholarly ebate. As a gifte an committe teacher an mentor, Nancy also was the first recipient of the Stanley Kelley Jr. Teaching Awar, in 1998. Unergrauate an grauate stuents have consistently sung her praise, commenting on her unparallele ability not 11
only to capture their intellectual imagination an provie incisive intellectual guiance, but also to serve as a role moel for her outstaning scholarship, teaching, an citizenship. As irector of grauate stuies she playe a particularly important role in guiing stuents through their octorate stuies an in shaping intellectual agenas. Her eication an success as irector of grauate stuies set the bar higher for irectors who followe her. It is therefore no surprise that Nancy has a eicate corps of current an former stuents who have gone on to pursue successful careers after grauating from Princeton. As Nancy retires an assumes emeritus status at Princeton, she leaves behin a legacy of excellent scholarship, institution builing, collaboration, an mentorship. Combine with her unparallele commitment to integrity, collaboration, an emocracy, she has been a great colleague, teacher, an frien. We will eeply miss her at Princeton an wish her all the best at Oxfor University, where she assumes the Nuffiel Chair in Comparative Politics. 12