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I grew up in Connecticut (of all places!) and lived in other parts of the Northeast, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, France, Scotland and the Netherlands before heading back to the Nutmeg State. I love doing things in the greater New York City area and the Adirondack mountains. My husband Hans van Dyk is Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at the College of New Rochelle, and we have four children. My New Year's resolution for 2013 will be to break my iPhone habit, which has really gotten out of control. |
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Suzanne Alonzo I study the evolution of animal behavior, particularly reproductive behavior. My research is a mix of theory and empirical work. My fieldwork takes me to Corsica to study a species of fish with a particularly complex and fascinating mating system (the ocellated wrasse). Most of this empirical work is conducted on SCUBA, underwater in the Mediterranean Ocean, which I love. This marine obsession may have been the result of growing up in central Illinois (where we were far away from any seawater) or it might have started during a field studies course in Moorea, French Polynesia taken while an undergraduate at the University of California Berkeley. I like to say I am a professional observer, as one of the things I enjoy most is watching organisms while trying to puzzle out what they are doing and why it may have evolved. This tendency also bleeds over into my hobbies, which include hiking, running, and kayaking (ideally all with my golden retriever). However, my favorite pastime is being with my kids (who luckily also enjoy being in the water). |
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Claire Bowern I'm originally from Canberra, in southeastern Australia. I came to the USA to go to grad school and stayed after I finished, living first in Texas and now here in New Haven. When I'm not working I like reading, cooking, and hiking. I have a big collection of recipe books from around the world, and I like trying to recreate medieval and renaissance recipes. |
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In terms of commuting, I've done my career backwards: for a happy early period, when I wrote for The New Yorker and worked from home, my commute was a walk across the hall; now, as an editorial writer for The New York Times, I commute from New Haven to New York City three times a week. Because of a chapter in between, when I was on the faculty of Yale Law School as a journalist and had the opportunity to become a fellow of Davenport, I'm fortunate to retain my D-port tie. My wife is a judge in New Haven and our daughter is a college student in New York City, so I have delightful personal reasons to spend time in both. |
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I was a Davenport undergraduate as a student and graduated in 1957. I then lived in the College as a resident fellow for 10 years while I worked in the Yale College Dean’s Office. I later was a senior Yale administrator until 1982. I left Yale to found a non-profit, inner city organization, Science Park, to the west of the Yale gym. I then became president of a specialty hospital outside New Haven and eventually returned to Yale to teach in the Public Health School. I am now retired and live three blocks from Davenport. I have been deeply involved in New Haven, play squash and am interested in studying ethical governance in non-profit organizations. |
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I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but lake effect snow drove my parents to return to their native New York City when I was six months old. I grew up in various New York suburbs, after which I migrated north for four years of college at Harvard. I came to New Haven immediately after college in 1980 to attend Yale's M.D., Ph.D. program and was joined a year later by my then college girlfriend, now wife of 28 years, JoAnne Burger, who also did her medical training at Yale. While we expected at the time that our careers would require many episodes of roaming and relocation, we seem to still be here. JoAnne is a pediatrician at Yale's Health Services and my big career transition involved moving down one flight of stairs from the Medical School's Department of Cell Biology, where I did my graduate work, to the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, where I have pursued my faculty career. Perhaps because our professional lives have been so sedentary we have developed a real passion for travel. From the time that our children Rebecca (Haverford College '10) and Joshua (Bowdoin College '14) were infants we have schlepped them to as many exotic locales as our schedules and budgets have permitted. We recently returned from an amazing trip to Antarctica and I will be thrilled to show several hundred pictures to anyone who shows even the faintest glimmer of enthusiasm. |
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I grew up in the snow belt of northwest Connecticut before heading south to attend Yale. While a Davenport undergraduate (’77), I rowed for the heavyweight crew for a year and half, played hockey for two years, and even coached the women's ice hockey team in my junior year, before developing my interest in the field of American decorative art and material culture in my junior year. I remain an active athlete sculling and biking. My wife Carol has been the Corporate Curator at Fidelity Investments since 1980. Like our son Ben (Davenport '08) and daughter Rachel (Davenport '10), we are loyal members of Red Sox Nation.
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I grew up in Northamptonshire, the county of “squires and spires” in the Midlands of England. My interest in the environment began as a teenager, stimulated by a love of being outside and an interest in the history of the British landscape. This eventually triumphed over the hours devoted to soccer and cricket, and in some peculiar way morphed into a passion for plants and paleontology. Those academic interests took me first to the University of Reading, then briefly to Indiana University, and then on to the Field Museum in Chicago, where I spent 17 happy years. A Bears Super Bowl in 1985, the Michael Jordan Years, the beginnings of 'Chicago Wilderness', and the purchase of a very expensive dinosaur, were just a few of the non-career highlights. Chicago feels like home in the US. I met my wife - Elinor - there and our two children - Emily and Sam – were born there. We still have a house in Oak Park - across the street from Hemingway's birth place and a stone's throw from the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio. Since leaving The Field Museum in 1999 my career took our family back to the UK, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and then across the Atlantic again to the University of Chicago, before I moved here to Yale and Davenport in 2009. |
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Originally from Germany, I have been living in the US for 25 years, first in New York City, now in New Haven. My passion is yoga, attending dance performances, museums, and going to bird walks and hiking in Maine, as well as being informed about such issues as climate change, healthy eating, food waste etc. As a student I have always enjoyed traveling and communicating with people from around the world. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy being at Yale.
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I am from the Bay Area in California, (Oakland Hills/Crocker Highlands), and I miss Golden Gate Park, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, Jupiter’s Pizza, and Napa Valley. In New Haven, I am fond of the Yale Repertory Theatre, the music library in Sterling, and Atticus Bookstore. I am trained as a clinical therapist where I spent many years working in community mental health centers and programs that supported the growth and development of pregnant and parenting adolescents. Academic Advising is one of my passions. I am a lover of the arts, particularly music, theater and dance, and I consider myself a Michael Jackson devotee. I believe in justice for all. I understand the game of chess... I am observant, practical and sometimes, deft :) For 11 years at Yale I was Asst. Dean of Student Affairs, Administrator for the Science, Technology and Research Scholars Program (STARS), and Director of the Afro-American Cultural Center. Currently, I am Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs overseeing the Executive Committee for student conduct and discipline; Readmission; and the Transfer Student Program. |
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I am a proud member of the Class of 1971—the first Yale class with women and the next-to-last class required to wear a coat and tie for dinner in the dining hall. I majored in history and have always been interested in cities and urban life, which explains why I wound up specializing in the fur trade, the frontier, and the French experience in North America. I am from New York (Long Island: Mets and Jets fan) and joined the musicians’ union at the age of 12. I love used bookstores and am writing a book on the “Rise and Fall of Modern Shopping.” I have a degree from the Yale School of Music as a percussionist, but mostly play piano in the Bales-Gitlin Band with my wife, Ginny Bales. Our son Basie (Davenport 2010) was a freshman counselor and has recently returned from Cambridge with an M.Phil. in Early Modern History. A cold glass of milk and chocolate thin mints (any variety of dark chocolate) will bring an instant smile to my face, in case one is not already firmly planted there. |
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I grew up in mid-coast Maine and talk about it incessantly so you probably shouldn’t get me started. After college in Maine I spent ten very happy years in Ireland pursuing graduate degrees and other fun hobbies, including flying everywhere the low-cost airlines flew (everywhere). Returning to the States in 2005, I taught medieval history at a black and orange university in NJ until mending my ways and coming north to New Haven. Here at Yale I’m an assistant director at the Center for Language Study where I direct the DILS and Fields programs - please ask me about them - and an Old Campus Fellow. Beyond languages and barbarian law, I love sports, seafood, poetry and anything in or near the water. And the Red Sox of course. |
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Karin Gosselink
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I try to help children maximize their developmental potential, whether through the research that unfolds in my laboratory or through the clinical work that takes place at the Yale Academic Skills Clinic. I am originally from Russia (always happy to speak Russian!) and possess all of the core elements of the national character--I drink a lot of tea, own a samovar, treat friends with caviar, love winter, and am constantly searching for the meaning of life.
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I joined the Dermatology Department of Yale University School of Medicine as a junior faculty In 1973. I’m now a mother of two Yalies, ’87 and ’95, and the grandmother of four adorable kids that would be Yalies. When I am not in my apartment at Davenport Entryway M21, I am spending my time doing research in the field of melanoma as a Senior Research Scientist and the Director of Yale SPORE in Skin Cancer in the Medical School. |
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Katherine Haskins
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Nilay Hazari
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I grew up in New Rochelle, NY before heading North to attend Yale. While a Davenport Undergraduate (class of 1984) I majored in MB&B and rowed on the freshman crew, where I met some of my closest friends. I spent much time in the labs at the medical school completing a BS/MS and developed an interest in medicine (volunteering at the hospital) and scientific research. I then went back to NY where I completed an MD/PhD at Cornell and Rockefeller Universities before heading up to Boston for internship, residency and fellowship at Harvard. Unexpectedly (but fortunately), my path then took me to Houston, Texas for 14 years where I worked at the MD Anderson Cancer Center (which is a remarkable cancer hospital) and led the lung cancer program. I am thrilled to be back in New Haven to lead oncology at the new Smilow Cancer Hospital with my wife Karen (a psychologist) and daughter Hannah (age 6). It is nice to return home! |
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While I was growing up, my family ricocheted between California and New York State. We came to New Haven in 1974, and have stayed put, although academic life has involved much short and medium-term travel. Around New Haven, I try to use a bicycle as much as possible. The older I get, the more I like teaching. |
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Family of Irish extraction, but moved to the shipbuilding city of Newcastle in the NE of England, where I was born and grew up in a world now 1,000 miles away: life in a dirty, non electrified row-house, in an Irish Catholic ghetto, and worked in a bookmaker's shop for 6 years. Escaped to university [the first person in our massive family to do so] at Newcastle, then to Oxford after an unexpected 1st-class. Came to Yale [and DC] in 1983 to teach modern international history. Massive interest in hawkwatching, medieval churches of England, horse-races, poetry, and growing roses. Play croquet when Yale allows us on their greens. |
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I was born in South Korea, raised in California, and lived for 4 years in London before arriving at Yale in 2006. Trained as a clinical psychologist, my research currently focuses on how "nature" and "nurture" interact to influence the development of mental illness, and how certain factors can help individuals overcome adversities and be resilient. One of my favorite responsibilities at Yale has been advising undergraduates and working with them in my lab. I live in New Haven with my husband, Seth, a conceptual sound artist, my daughter, Noa, and my barkless dog, Mavis. In my free time, I like to cook traditional Korean dishes, and recently learned to bake pies. |
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I was raised in New Jersey by parents who emigrated from Korea and after finishing my undergraduate education at MIT and medical training at Harvard, set off with my wife Delphine to Salvador, Brazil where I have worked for the past 16 years on the health problems of urban slum communities. We returned to the US last year with three kids, Tongil (16), Aline (13) and Minjae (10), who despite their French mother and American father, grew up to be typical baianos. I spend my spare time wandering around book stores and doing a not very good job of kicking the soccer ball with my children
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I grew up in eastern Massachusetts and went to college in upstate New York before coming back to Boston for grad school. I lived in Washington, DC for two years before coming to Yale in 2009. I'm a big sports fan; my favorite sports to watch are baseball and football (Go Sox! Go Pats!). My hobbies include reading, skiing, and travel. My husband Tony is a freelance photographer and we have one son, Patrick, who was born in 2010. |
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Calling Orange County, California my home, I graduated from UCLA’s undergraduate and graduate programs in English Literature (B.A./M.A.) before heading to South Korea in 1997. After working in Seoul for six years in higher education at Kyung Hee University and at the Fulbright Offices, I joined Yale University in 2002 and am now the Director of the Richard U. Light Fellowship Program and Director of Outcomes Assessment for the Center for International Experience. My wife, Julia, is the Head Administrator at Christ Presbyterian Church in New Haven, and my two daughters, Katie and Aerin, attend Nathan Hale School. |
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I grew up in a fairly small town in central Texas and am a graduate of Rice University in Houston, where after a long wandering through a series of majors—economics, history, psychology, architecture—I eventually settled on the history of art. I went off to graduate school in that subject, specializing in the art of the Middle Ages. I taught for 27 years at the University of Chicago, making Chicago my second home, before coming to Yale in 2005. Along the way, I lived in Washington, D.C., New York, and Los Angeles. My wife is Margaret Olin, who teaches at the Divinity School and is a fellow of Saybrook College, and we have two children, Ben, who will be in law school next year and Sheba who will start college. I like to work out, listen to music (classical of all periods, Afro-Pop, Blues), read fiction, take photographs, and travel for my work, mainly to Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. |
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I spent my early years in Kuwait, but did most of my schooling in India where I received my undergraduate and first postgraduate degrees training as an Aerospace Engineer. I arrived at Yale in mid 1988 and received my PhD in 1993. I have continued here ever since. While in high school, as well as during my undergraduate years, I was a keen Amateur Radio enthusiast. While here at Yale, I was involved in a variety of activities among them being the Math & Science Tutor in Davenport (first in 1990), an active member of the University Ballroom Dance Team (~1992 to 2002) etc. I am now Director of the Residential College Mathematics and Science Tutoring Program and also teach in Mechanical Engineering. My wife, Dr. Malini Harigopal, is faculty at the School of Medicine, and my daughter Kamini is just starting out as a first grader. We are now native New Havenites. |
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I’ve been at Yale Law School since 1999, teaching the international human rights clinic and directing the international human rights center. I also attended the Law School, starting when I was 39 years old after working in human rights for several years. Before that, I spent the decade after college – at the University of Michigan in my home state – mostly roaming the country between an array of construction, bookstore and other odd jobs. Then I went to graduate school at the University of Chicago and wrote a thesis on the American Tradition of the Open Road in the Age of the Automobile, a failed attempt to justify the previous ten years of my life. I still try to get to the gym to play basketball, a generally unsuccessful exercise in denial. My wife, Jean, also a Davenport Fellow, is at the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies. My son, Jonah, coaching soccer in New Jersey, and daughter, Kira, working with children in Baltimore, are both figuring out life after college. |
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My life orbits between Manhattan, where my partner works in a web company, and northern Vermont, where we have an off-grid cabin. In Manhattan, we host periodic performance salons for those who are writers, musicians, actors, dancers, and filmmakers. (I play classical piano in a strictly amateur way. Currently it's all Scarlatti.) We also help to facilitate a far-flung network of Radical Faeries. In Vermont I've gotten to know a fair amount about timber frame construction and chainsaw gardening; and since I'm on leave this fall, I have that long-awaited chance to reread Proust. |
Julia Adams
Associate Professor, Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Lincoln Caplan
Henry (Sam) Chauncey, Jr.
Michael J. Caplan
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
Peter Crane
Marion Gehlker
Pamela George
Jay Gitlin
Angela Gleason
Despite living in the East for fifteen years, I still identify as a Midwesterner—I was born and spent most of my childhood in Illinois (and am a die-hard Cubs fan as a result). I won a scholarship to a small college in central New York, where for one of my many campus jobs I was a peer writing tutor. This led to my first post-college job coordinating a Writing Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I discovered I had a talent and passion for teaching writing, and for working with the recent immigrant and international students that made up most of our clientele. I combined my interests by earning a Ph.D. in global Anglophone literature while teaching for the writing program at Rutgers. In 2006, I arrived at Yale as a lecturer, and became an Assistant Director at the Yale College Writing Center in 2010. My other talents include ice-skating, grassroots political organizing (I run an awesome phone bank), and expanding my knowledge of American movies of the 1930s and 40s. When I’m not on campus, I’m enjoying time with my husband, Phil, a nurse practitioner, and parenting my two young boys, Will and Oscar.
Elena L. Grigorenko
Ruth Halaban
I was born and raised in New York City, but having lived and worked there for many years, I call Chicago my hometown. I came to Yale ten years ago, with a specialty in art history and art librarianship. Most recently, I’ve moved to another career in fundraising and am part of the Yale Development team as a staff writer and editor. Although I write for a living, it’s also something I do for fun, and am currently plotting out a series of mystery novels I have a doctorate in the history of art from the University of Chicago, and have taught classes in my specialty, British Victorian art, at Yale. Not surprisingly, I hold a particular fondness for the Yale Center for British Art as well as for the Yale Repertory Theatre.
I grew up in Melbourne, Australia before I moved to Sydney, where I completed an undergraduate degree in science at the University of Sydney. From there I moved to Oxford to study for a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry. I continued to pursue my passion for chemistry as a postdoc at Caltech and in 2009 I started as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Yale. My research aims to convert small and abundant molecules such as carbon dioxide and dinitrogen into useful materials. Away from lab, I love playing and watching sport and I am slowly learning the intricacies of American Football!
Roy S. Herbst
Roger E. Howe
Paul M. Kennedy
Julia Kim-Cohen
Albert Ko
Maureen Long
Kelly McLaughlin
Robert S. Nelson
Ismene Petrakis
Kailasnath Purushothaman
Richard Schottenfeld
James Silk
Bill Storandt
Michael Warner