Fellows
Davenport College has an active and enthusiastic Fellowship. Davenport’s Fellowship includes Fellows (distinguished Faculty and Staff at the University) and Associate Fellows (often Davenport alum or people who have made important contributions to New Haven and the larger society).
Eugene R. Fidell
Visiting Lecturer in Law
Biography
I am a law teacher and practicing attorney, specializing in Military Justice. I have taught that and numerous other subjects at the Law School. I have also taught at Harvard, NYU, American, and the University of Virginia. I am of counsel at the Washington, DC law firm Feldesman Leifer LLP. I grew up in New York City, where I attended public schools and Queens College. I served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1969 to 1972. My wife Linda Greenhouse is a journalist and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Our daughter Hannah Fidell is a writer-director in Los Angeles. We have one grandchild: Lizzy Longstreth.
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Susan Forster
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Biography
In the years that I have been with the University, I have served as Director of Medical Studies for the Ophthalmology Department as well as Chief of Ophthalmology at Yale Health and Founding Chief of the Cornell Scott Hill Health Federally Qualified Community Health Center. I was the co-founder of the Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program through the AMerican Academy of Ophthalmology and the American University Professor in Ophthalmology. My research interest has focused on medical education and community outreach. As mother of four and grandmother of six, my family life has been delightfully important to my and I find interdigitates with the professional pert of my life. I continue to mentor students and faculty and still am involved in ophthalmology policy at the national level and up for exploring what ever comes my way
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Deborah Fried
Educational Director of the Long Term Therapy Clinic
Biography
I teach medical students and psychiatry residents in the workings of the unconscious mind and how psychotherapy can foster essential change. I arrange volunteer help from the university and community to staff an overflow homeless shelter in the winter. I was a dancer and dance teacher before a research and then clinical career in psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
I have raised my own children who went to Yale (Davenport for one of them!) and am an avid walker and runner in New Haven.
I received my Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Psychology from Hampshire College in 1978 and my MD from New York Medical College in 1983.
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Eric Friede
Head of Acquisitions, Special Collections Technical Services, Beinecke Library
Biography
I manage a staff that supports the Beinecke curators in acquiring material for the library. Our work involves both research into rare materials prior to acquisition, and also receiving and verifying purchases and gifts. I am married to another Yale librarian and living with a toddler and two Boston Terriers. I am also a birder and collector of books about birds.