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My research and teaching interests are in gender, markets, medicine, and genetics. My book, Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm, will be published by University of California Press in Fall 2011. This project received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. Currently, I am doing research on genetic testing, genetic counseling, and in vitro fertilization. In the past, I have collaborated on research about obesity science and abortion training. I received a B.A. in Gender Studies and Religious Studies from Rice University in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, I was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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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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I'm from Philadelphia, where I went to Quaker school from kindergarten on. As an undergrad at Yale ('93), I wrote and edited for The New Journal and worked at the Yale Women's Center. I've lived in Israel and Berkeley and D.C., working as a journalist, and I also went to Yale Law School ('00), though only to do more journalism rather than practice law. Now I'm a senior editor at Slate and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine as well as the Truman Capote law and media fellow at the law school. This is the fourth time I've lived in New Haven since I was 18--surely some sort of record.
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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 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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I grew up in New Jersey and went to Wesleyan, where I found myself studying linguistics and pipe organ. From there I migrated west for graduate school in linguistics, then anthropology, at the University of Chicago. Wandering west again I located in Java, Indonesia, where I lived off and on for four years, returning more or less permanently in 1980. Since moving to Yale’s department of Anthropology a few years after that I have more or less stayed put, aside from a couple of research stints. I and my wife live in nearby Bethany in a nest newly emptied by two daughters, who are off on their own journeys now. We commiserate often about our less than amazing Mets. After a long period as chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at the Macmillan Center, I gave the job up last year to do more research in some out-of-the-way parts of Indonesia. |
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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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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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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 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 grew up in New Bedford, MA and went to a large urban public high school. So I understand the culture shock that can be involved transitioning to life as a freshman at an Ivy League university (Although I myself went to that other Ivy League school over in Cambridge. Please don't hold it against me.). These days,when I'm not hanging out with monkeys on a tropical island, I like to spend my free time reading cheesy autobiographies, working on science advocacy, and relaxing with my husband with a good nature documentary on Netflix. |
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I grew up in Pennsylvania, and after graduating from high school lived in Stanford, Toronto, Prague, Bratislava, Domažlice, Warsaw, New York, Bloomington, Moscow, and Vienna for different lengths of time before coming to Yale in 2006. I love jogging (even though I’m very slow), swimming, and yoga. While in graduate school I developed the ability to do advanced step aerobics in multiple Slavic languages (a skill of which I’m particularly proud), although I now hear that step aerobics are passé, having been replaced by zumba. Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Lolita, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Mr. Mani are among my favorite novels. My (infinitely delightful and endlessly entertaining in my entirely biased opinion) son Kalev was born in Vienna in April 2010; he was born a true “rootless cosmopolitan”: initially citizenshipless—until my husband and I took him to the American consulate when he was three weeks old and applied for an American passport. |
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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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I grew up in Ithaca, New York in an all-Cornell family, so naturally I had to go to Juilliard, displaying an independent, impractical streak. After a lucky career as a NYC percussionist, hitting things for Broadway shows, recording sessions (tambourine, etc. for the Monkees and Archies), avant-garde chamber music (The Juilliard Ensemble), everything was going so well I left for Vermont, built a geodesic dome with an outhouse, and lived a "contemplative" life for a while, before drifting back into music, this time as a teacher at UVM. Having no mortgage allowed me to build a 33' sailboat, and recounting CLARITY's travels veered me into writing, which in turn landed me in the D-port writing tutor's office many years ago. I've written a beach novel (Random House) and a memoir about sailing across the Atlantic (U of Wisconsin Press), as well as 25 years' worth of sailing articles. The boat's now in Croatia-I spend every summer aboard. I live in Branford with my partner of 32 years, Brian Forsyth, a professor at the Med School. |
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As a child I lived in California, Washington State, Minnesota and Alaska. I attended Seattle University for my undergraduate studies and did my graduate work at Emory University. As a physician assistant I practiced full time in cardiac surgery and orthopaedic surgery before becoming a faculty member at Yale. I live near the Yale Bowl with my husband who is a veterinarian and my two girls who are entering the teen realm. I enjoying knitting, movies and entertaining friends. |
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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. |
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