THE I NSTITUTE L E T T E R INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY · SPRING 2007 POLITICAL THEORIST DANIELLE ALLEN JOINS THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE olitical theorist Danielle Allen will join the Faculty low in Michael Walzer’s footsteps is a distinct and exciting honor but above all a chal - Pof the Institute for Advanced Study on July 1, lenge. I hope I will meet it.” 2007, as the UPS Foundation Professor in the School Eric Maskin, Albert O. Hirschman Professor in the School of Social Science, described of Social Science. She will fill the position currently Dr. Allen as having “a lively and penetrating mind” and the propensity to “add a great deal held by Michael Walzer, who is retiring after twenty- to the intellectual life of our School.” Her plans for future work include a theoretical study of seven years and who will become Professor Emeritus. politics and change; an historical study of Platonic political thought; an examination of the Allen, who is trained as a classicist and a political the - concept of equality; and a theoretical study of democracy, knowledge, and higher education. orist, is presently Dean of the Humanities Division of the Dr. Allen received her undergraduate education in Classics (with a political theory minor) at University of Chicago, where she has served on the faculty Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude. She was awarded an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in since 1997. Through her work in democratic theory, polit - Classics from Cambridge University and went on to Harvard University, where she received her ical sociology, the linguistic dimensions of politics, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1997 history of political thought, she “has already established a as Assistant Professor of Classics. In 2000, Dr. Allen became Associate Professor of Classical Lan - quite extraordinary record of achievement,” commented guages and Literatures, Political Science, and the Committee on Social Thought. In 2003, she was Director Peter Goddard. “Her work is outstandingly orig - promoted to Professor. The following year she was named Dean of the Division of Humanities. inal, with enormous depth and range, addressing issues In addition to her scholarly achievements, Dr. Allen is an accomplished pianist and a Danielle Allen of the greatest importance to contemporary society. Her prize-winning poet. In the prologue of Talking to Strangers , in which she explicates the caus - appointment here will ensure that the Institute retains a leading position in political theory.” es and consequences of distrust, particularly racial distrust, among democratic citizens, she Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in ancient Athens and its application writes: “The inhabitants of a polity have a shared life in which each citizen and noncitizen to modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in has an individual perspective on a set of phenomena relevant to all. Some live behind one Democratic Athens (Princeton University Press, 2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citi - veil, and others behind another, but the air that we all breathe carries the same gases and zenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education (University of Chicago Press, 2004). In 2002, she pollens through those veils. More important, our shared elements (events, climates, envi - was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her ability to combine “the classicist’s careful atten - ronments, imaginative fixations, economic conditions, and social structures), when con - tion to texts and language with the political theorist’s sophisticated and informed engagement.” sidered at the political rather than the private level, are made out of the combination of all Allen said she is “astonished and delighted by the opportunity to work at the Insti - our interactions with each other. We are all always awash in each other’s lives, and for most tute, to learn from colleagues there, and to devote myself full-time to research. To fol - of us that shared life, recorded as history, will be the only arti fact we leave behind.” I INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF PAUL MORAVEC AS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ulitzer-prize winning composer Paul Moravec has been appointed as the Institute’s could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from Pnext Artist-in-Residence. Moravec will join the Institute on July 1, 2007, as its res - all disciplines. At the time of the program’s establish - ident composer, introducing new works and leading the Institute’s annual concert series. ment, then-Director Phillip A. Griffiths, now Professor Moravec has received numerous distinctions for his work, which includes more than in the School of Mathematics, called it an “interesting ninety orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film and electo-acoustic compositions. He experiment” and noted, “We haven’t done anything was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2004 for Tempest Fantasy , a thirty-minute like this since T. S. Eliot was here in 1948.” (See T. S. “musical meditation” on Shakespeare’s play scored for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. Eliot article, page 6.) His other achievements include a Fellowship in Music Composition from the National Pianist Robert Taub was the Institute’s first Artist-in- Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Italy, a Camargo Residence from 1994 to 2001, during which time he per - Foundation Residency Fellowship in France, and two fellowships from the American formed the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as many commissions. His music has been over a period of three years. Vox Classics recorded the E E L E described as “tuneful, ebullient and wonderfully energetic” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), performances in Wolfensohn Hall, the Institute’s lecture M R A P “riveting and fascinating” (NPR), and “assured, virtuosic” ( Wall Street Journal ). hall and concert venue, producing five highly-acclaimed Y N O H At the Institute, Moravec “will build upon and develop our Artist-in-Residence pro - double-CDs. Taub also introduced a “Musical Conversa - T N gram,” said Director Peter Goddard, “which has established a strong reputation as a pro - tions” series that brought noted musical figures to the A moter of challenging and provocative music and music scholarship, while also utilizing Institute, including James Levine and Milton Babbitt. Paul Moravec this opportunity for growth in his own work.” Moravec succeeds the Institute’s second Artist-in-Residence, Jon Magnussen, who had just In addition to directing the Institute’s concert series, Moravec will be composing his received his doctorate in composition from The Juilliard School when the Institute selected first major opera as well as a new piece for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Born in him to succeed Taub in 2000. Magnussen’s appointment ends on June 30 (see article, page 6). Buffalo, New York, and having attended the Princeton-area Lawrenceville School, Morav ec received his B.A. in music composition from Harvard University in 1980. Moravec said, “Inasmuch as I was raised in Princeton during the late sixties, I regard this After graduation, he won a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. residency as a kind of homecoming.” Upon obtaining both his master’s (1982) and doctorate (1987) degrees in music composition The Artist-in-Residence program was established in 1994 to create a musical pres - from Columbia University, Moravec went on to teach at Columbia and later at D artmouth ence within the Institute community and to have in residence a person whose work and Hunter colleges. He is currently University Professor at Adelphi University. I NEWS OF THE INSTITUTE COMMUNITY AROLINE WALKER BYNUM, Professor in the OROTHY KO, former Member in the School of CSchool of Historical Studies, will receive an Hon - D.Historical Studies (200 0–2001), was awarded the orary Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in May. 2006 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History A TALKING POINTS A q from the American Historical Association for her book Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding nspired by S. S. Chern: A Memorial Volume in Honor (University of California Press, 2005). “Arabia seems to have been a much more developed Iof A Great Mathematician, edited by PHILLIP A. place than most Islamicists (myself included) had ever GRIFFITHS, Professor in the School of Mathematics, q suspected—not just in the north and south, but also in has been published by World Scientific Press. he 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry has been the middle. We are beginning to get a much more q Tawarded to former School of Mathematics Members nuanced sense of the place, and again it is clear that we PETER KRONHEIMER (1987 –89) and TOMASZ RIC S. MASKIN, Albert O. Hirschman Professor in should think of it as more closely tied in with the rest of MROWKA (2003 –04) for their joint contributions to both E.the School of Social Science, delivered the Marshall the Near East than we used to do. The inscriptional three- and four-dimensional topology through the develop - Lectures at Cambridge University in March. record is expanding, too. With every bit of certainty we ment of deep analytical techniques and applications, and gain on one problem, the range of possible interpreta - q PETER OSVÁTH (1997–98, 2003 –04) and Zoltán Szabó tions in connection with others contracts, making for a for their contributions to three- and four-dimensional otivic Homotopy Theory, co-authored by better sense of where to look for solutions and better topology through their Heegaard Floer homology theory. MVLADIMIR VOEVODSKY, Professor in the conjectures where no evidence exists.” School of Mathematics, and based on lectures given on q —PATRICIA CRONE, Andrew W.