Faculty Adds Two Members To Area Plan

Two new appointments to the faculty were announced yesterday that will further enhance the staffs of the University's new Area Studies program.

Vera Micheles Dean, Radcliffe '25, a leading American foreign policy expert, and Taun-sheng Chien, Ph.D. '24, one of China's foremost political scientists, are the new faculty members, with appointments dating from February, 1948.

After graduating from Radcliffe, Mrs. Dean went to study at Yale's Graduate School, from which she received an A.M. in 1926, and a Ph.D. here two years later. She has also been awarded honorary LL.D.'s from Wilson College and the University of Rochester.

Since 1931 she has been connected with the Foreign Policy Association, and in 1938 was appointed its Research Director and Editor. Mrs. Dean was born in Petrograd, Russia, and became a naturalized citizen in 1928.

Book on Russia

She has lectured extensively and published a number of books on Europe, including one entitled "The United States and Russia" which will appear this summer.

Chien was graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1920, and then spent four years at Harvard which gained him an A.M. and a Ph.D. He is now professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Peking National University in China.

His writings include studies of the governments of France and Germany, and a recent standard Chinese political theory text, on which he collaborated with Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Area studies program, with which Chien and Mrs. Dean will be working, now includes intensive surveys of China and Russia, as well as a preparatory course in general international affairs.