Dean Craig Harwood

The Dean is the academic counselor of the residential college. He helps students deal with academic regulations, Yale bureaucracy, and life in general. Dean Harwood was appointed Dean of Davenport College in June 2005.

Dean Harwood earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Queens College, where he played tuba in the College Orchestra. He received his Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale University; his dissertation explored issues of musical grammar in the work of Mozart. After graduating from Yale, Dean Harwood was appointed an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Amherst College.

At Amherst and Yale, Dean Harwood taught classes in music theory, Klezmer Music and Mozart. He plays both guitar and mandolin, and performs in Generation Klez, a professional klezmer ensemble with a group of Alumni from the Yale School of Music. During his graduate school days at Yale he played with the Professors of Bluegrass. He has been tireless in his devotion to both the world of music and the music of the world; while at Amherst, he helped develop the Global Sound Project, and served on the Five College Ethnomusicology Committee, which organizes festivals and symposia on world music.

As a performer, as a teacher, and as mentor to undergraduate musicians, Mr. Harwood has used music of all types as his medium for connecting with students. Dean Harwood lives in Davenport with his wife Julie and their son, Asher. Julie is a freelance photojournalist.

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