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).
Erin Morley
Coloratura Soprano Singer
Biography
Erin Morley is one of today's most sought-after lyric coloratura sopranos. Her performances have garnered critical acclaim worldwide with regular appearances on the world's greatest opera stages including the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House - Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opéra National de Paris, Staatsoper Berlin, Glyndebourne Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera and of course, The Metropolitan Opera, where she has now sung more than 100 performances and has been featured in eight "Live in HD" broadcasts.
Morley spent her early years studying violin and piano, and frequently collaborated with her violinist mother, Elizabeth Palmer. Morley completed her studies at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School. Morley has received three GRAMMY nominations for recordings with The Metropolitan Opera, including her performance as the title role in Eurydice by Matthew Aucoin. She also won the Beverly Sills Award in 2021, the Opera News Award in 2023, and was named "Chevaliere dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Minister of Culture in 2023. Erin Morley is the proud wife of Professor John Morley of Yale Law School, proud mother of three beautiful children, and a happy resident of Connecticut. When she's not performing, she's most likely conducting church choirs, sky diving, skiing, or driving her kids to soccer and play practice.
Emma Jean (Jeanne) Musto
Wife of Professor David F. Musto
Biography
My professional life was a mix, bound up with the career of my late husband, Professor/Dr. David F. Musto and his many other pursuits and interests. During the 52 years I knew him, I edited everything he wrote including his nine books. On my own, I worked in the Settle Public Library, later in the Yale Admissions Office, and taught piano in our New Haven home. I am the wife of a former Yale Professor and Davenport fellow, and mother of three boys who all went to Yale and were in Davenport. Since my husband's passing I have been an Associate Fellow of Davenport.I have been an acitve volunteer in several New Haven organizations including The New Haven Land Trust (now called Gather) and the New Haven Historical Society.
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Srinivas B Muvvala
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Muvvala is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Program Director for the Addiction Psychiatry Residency at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Substance use & Addiction Treatment Unit (SATU) at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. His research and clinical interests are in investigating and disseminating optimal therapies for the treatment of opioid, tobacco and alcohol use disorders and in providing comprehensive treatment for individuals with co-occuring addiction and psychiatric disorders. Married, wife is a physician at Yale, father of two children, sports enthusiast, regular volleyball, tennis, ping pong player.
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Sheryl Carter Negash
Principal Consultant
Biography
Sheryl Carter Negash is the daughter of Thomas (Factory Worker/Construction Worker who traveled north from the South during the second wave of the Great Migration), granddaughter of Frederick (Pullman Porter who died young because the local White hospital refused him treatment), and great granddaughter of Floyd (Entrepreneur who was enslaved during childhood). Sheryl believes that her lineage and lived experience as a Black woman inform her professional expertise as much as her education and work experience. Sheryl holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
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Robert Nelson
Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
Biography
I am an art historian with a core interest in medieval art, especially of the Byzantine Empire. But I also work on modern architecture from historical revival architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (i.e. Yale Campus) to modernism since World War II I am the grandfather of a beautiful little girl. My wife and I have two children, one a lawyer in the Bay Area, the other a graduate student working to become a therapist. I like reading contemporary fiction, gardening inside (orchids) and outside, and I collect American art pottery of the early twentieth century. But mostly I work on the book that I am writing about the long history of a medieval manuscript from the eleventh century to the present.
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Catherine Nicholson
Professor of English
Biography
I study early modern English literature and am especially interested in two, interrelated questions. First, what did "English" and "literature" mean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how have those meanings changed in the centuries after? Second, how might our answers to that question reshape the ways we read and think about English literature today? I've written two books, one on the emergence of the idea of English literature and the other on the four-hundred-year-long struggle between readers and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and am at work on a book about learning to read in early modern England. I live in Hamden with my husband and three kids. I love to read, like to cook, and am spectacularly unathletic. I go to Mass at St. Thomas More Chapel and am always up for talking about religion.
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Stephanie O'Malley
Deputy Chair of Clinical Research, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
My research seeks to develop more effective treatments for alcohol use disorder and for tobacco use disorder and to provide the science base for the regulation of tobacco products, such as e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches. Our methods include clinical trials, human laboratory paradigms, focus groups and survey research. I am deeply engaged in mentoring scientists in research on addictive behaviors.
I grew up in New Orleans and so have an affinity for great food, unique neighborhoods and interesting people. My husband and I have two children and have a new grandson whom I adore.
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Margaret Olin
Senior Research Scholar, Yale Divinity School and Department of History of Art
Biography
I came to Yale after twenty-five years as a professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While there, I helped found the program in Visual and Critical Studies, an interdisciplinary program uniting the practice of art and scholarship. My scholarship ranges from the theory and practice of art history, the theory of photography, to Jewish visual practices, with books in each of these fields. I am also a photographer whose work focuses currently on human rights. I am a happily married mother of two, grandmother of one, and a dedicated traveler.
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Ismene Petrakis
Chief of Mental Health at VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Biography
I have over 25 years of experience in the clinical treatment of addictive disorders, research in this field and in the education of residents, medical students, post-doctoral fellows and other mental health trainees. I am also a grant funded investigator (funding sources over the years have included NIH, VA, Department of Defense, NARSAD and the Stanley Foundation) whose research interests include developing and testing potentially effective treatments for individuals with alcohol use disorder, opioid use disorder and in those with comorbid psychiatric disorders, particularly PTSD. I grew up in Pittsburgh but have been in New Haven area since residency in psychiatry at Yale-where I met my husband (also a Professor of Psychiatry).
I am mother of 2 adult children, both of whom graduated from Yale College (Ezra Stiles and Silliman). One is a lawyer in NYC and the other is completing her Masters of Social Work at University of Michigan
I am of Greek background, love to travel (particularly to Greece).
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Marina Picciotto
Deputy Chair for Basic Science Research, Psychiatry; Director of the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program
Biography
Dr. Picciotto's lab studies the role of acetylcholine signaling in complex behaviors and mouse models relevant to psychiatric illness. This work involves in vivo imaging of acetylcholine dynamics and its consequences on the activity of networks of neurons involved in cognition-, reward- or stress-related behaviors, as well as molecular genetic studies of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and their role in mediating the actions of acetylcholine during development and in adulthood. I am mom to a 24 year old who works in environmental policy in California and who is a rock climber. When I am not in the lab, with students or on my computer, I can usually be found walking while listening to audiobooks. I will try to cook anything in an Ottolenghi cookbook.