international affairs; and Will S. Dobbie, assistant professor of economics and public affairs.
PROMOTIONS Alin I. Coman has been promoted to associate professor of psychology and public affairs after serving at the Woodrow Wilson School as an assistant professor since 2012. His research program is part of an emerging field in the social sciences aimed at connecting micro-level local dynamics (e.g., social influence) with large-scale social phenomena (e.g., the emergence of collective memories, emotions, and beliefs). Using experimental methods in conjunction with computer simulations and social network analysis, this research program is aimed at investigating complex social, cultural, and political phenomena. Coman earned a Ph.D. in cognitive, social, and developmental psychology in 2010 from the New School for Social Research in New York. Owen M. Zidar has been promoted to associate professor of economics and public affairs. Previously, he served at the Woodrow Wilson School as assistant professor during the 2018-19 academic year and as a visiting assistant professor during the 2017-18 academic year. Before coming to Princeton, Zidar was assistant professor of economics at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. A public finance economist, he studies the taxation of firms and top earners, local fiscal policy, and the creation and distribution of economic profits. Zidar earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014.
TRANSFER TO EMERITUS STATUS R. Douglas Arnold, the William Church Osborn Professor of Public Affairs and professor of politics and public affairs, transferred to emeritus status. One of the nation’s leading congressional scholars, his broad research interests lie in
American politics, with special interests in congressional politics, national policymaking, representation, the mass media, and Social Security. Arnold joined the Princeton faculty in 1977, and, in addition to his teaching duties, he directed two graduate programs in the Woodrow Wilson School — first the Ph.D. program and then the MPA program. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977.
RETIRING Stanley N. Katz, lecturer with rank of professor of public and international affairs and director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, has retired. Since arriving at the University in 1978, Katz has served as faculty chair of the undergraduate program; vice president, president, and board member of the Center for Jewish Life; and acting director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs. In 1994, he co-founded the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, which he has directed since 1998. In 2010, he was honored by former President Obama with a U.S. National Humanities Medal. Katz earned his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University in 1961.
IN MEMORIAM The School honors the memory and legacy of the late Alan B. Krueger (1960-2019), James Madison Professor of Political Economy and founding director of the Princeton Survey Research Center; the late Robert George Gilpin Jr. (19312018), the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus; and the late James Trussell (1949-2018), Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus.
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