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).
Adam Van Doren
Associate Fellow, Davenport College
Biography
I am an artist, author and filmmaker. I teach a painting course at Yale College entitled "Mastering the Art of Watercolor: Classic Techniques from Turner to Hopper") and have also taught at the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York City. I have published five books, including "The Stones of Yale," and "In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution." My artwork is included in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, among other collections. I have directed two documentary films on James Thurber (PBS) and Harold Ross and the history of the New Yorker magazine.
I enjoy playing the banjo and was a former DJ of a bluegrass program "Moonshine" for my college radio station. I relish Fellows dinners, lunches at the Dport Dining Hall, afternoon tea at the Elizabethan Club on campus, occasional pick up football on the Dport quad. I enjoy lively intellectual conversation with students in the office in Dport I share with Prof. Gitlin; and I have enjoyed presenting several College Teas in Dport on American humorists, as well as giving some weekend workshops on watercolor to Yale students during COVID. I always look forward to exhibiting my students' work every semester in the Dport art gallery.
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Allan Esteron
Assistant Chaplain at Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale
Biography
As an assistant chaplain, I walk with students who are seeking to deepen their understanding of God, who want to grow in their spirituality, who want to express their faith in service and works of justice, and who want to share their gifts with their current and future faith communities.
I am a father to Isabella and Joaquin, two of the most precious human beings in the world. I am originally from the Philippines. When not at Saint Thomas More at Yale, I spend my time cooking, playing with my kids and playing my guitar.
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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.
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Elizabeth "Liz" Gardner
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head Team Physician Yale Athletics
Biography
I am an orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon, specializing in arthroscopic and reconstructive treatment of knee and shoulder injuries. I also serve as Head Team Physician for Yale Athletics, which includes sideline coverage at Football and Lacrosse, among other sports. I am a 2001 graduate of Davenport College. While an undergrad, I was captain of the Women's Lacrosse Team and also played Field Hockey. I remain very involved in Yale Athletics and sports in general.
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Paul Genecin
formerly CEO of Yale Health, Clinical Assoc. Professor of Medicine (Yale School of Medicine)
Biography
I was at Yale for 34 years, and I served as CEO of Yale Health from 1997 to 2023. I was on the clinical faculty at YSM and worked as an attending on the inpatient teaching service at Yale-New Haven Hospital on the Fitkin Firm. I continue to supervise at Neighborhood Health Project, a student-run organization at Yale Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, caring for indigent patients at a neighborhood food pantry.
Since January 2023, I have worked at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC, where my responsibilities are evenly divided between clinical care and teaching. My patient population is indigent patients, many of them asylum seekers and homeless. gardener, classical music lover, father of two (one son Branford College class of 2014), and proud grandfather of one.
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Michael Gennaro
Head Coach, Yale Heavyweight Men's Rowing
Biography
I was hired as an assistant coach at Yale in the fall of 2017 and was promoted to head coach in the fall of 2023. Prior to being at Yale, I was an 8x member of the U.S. National Team, having competed in multiple World Championships at the U19, U23, and Olympic level from 2007-2016. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, which makes me a passionate, an unfortunately irrational (at times), Philadelphia sports fan. I am the 3rd oldest of 6 siblings and grew up in an Irish-Italian Catholic household with two remarkable, hard-working, selfless parents. I met my wife, Amy, at Syracuse University. I was on the men's rowing team and she was on the women's lacrosse team. We currently live in Southington, CT with our two daughters Gloria (born Sep. 2021) and Penelope (Nov. 2023). Amy is a special education elementary school teacher.
One of the first people I met when I was hired at Yale was Ryan Brasseaux, the former Dean of Davenport College. Dean Brasseaux was instrumental in the growth of my love and appreciation for our university.
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Basie Bales Gitlin
Senior Director, Development and External Affairs, Yale University Library and Yale Collections
Biography
By day, I oversee the intersection of alumni affairs and development with Yale's libraries and cultural heritage institutions. This portfolio makes for a very varied diet, from working on major gifts and grants that transform Yale's spaces, collections, and programs to programming around reunions or events around the country or the world that showcase our work. At Yale, I also serve as Librarian of the Elizabethan Club and Co-Chair of the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes. In college, I was an active member of the Davenport community, serving as a first-year counselor, Mellon Forum co-chair, captain of our IM squash team, etc. At Cambridge, I took up rowing, which I still enjoy both recreationally and competitively. I have been a bibliophile since I was a kid and continue to collect books seriously, with a focus on different facets of book history and the history of Yale.