Staff

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Phone (203) 432-0763
Fax (203) 432-7765
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John Mangan
Assistant Dean
John Mangan is currently Assistant Dean and Acting Director of the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Yale, as well as a Lecturer in the Department of History. He holds degrees in music from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Yale School of Music and received his Ph.D. in History and Education from Columbia University. At Yale, he served previously as the dean of Jonathan Edwards College. His research focuses on the history of music study in higher education, and he teaches a course on the history of primary and secondary education in the U.S. His articles have been published in Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association, American Arts Quarterly, and Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood.

Pat Cabral
Assistant to Dean Mangan in the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity.
Pat is a native of New Haven and lived in New York City for twelve years. She returned to New Haven (1981) and began working at Yale as a secretary in the Department of Cell Biology. In July of 1982 she transferred to the Graduate School and worked for the Associate Dean of the Humanities until June of 1985 at which time the Dean retired. Later that summer, she became administrative assistant to the Associate Dean of the Sciences, a position she’s held with various Deans until January of 2001 when she became the Assistant to Liza Cariaga-Lo. Pat is the mother of two sons and proud grandmother to Bryant, an avid reader and one of Hamden’s “Talented and Gifted” students. Her hobbies include reading, listening to music, crafts (quilting), and traveling. She walks for hunger every year and involves herself in many other worthy causes, (Habitat for Humanity, Breast Cancer Awareness, United Way Book Drive) just to name a few.

odeo Fellows

Maria Baquero
Maria is a 4th year PhD student in the Experimental Pathology program. She graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in Sociology and a BS in Biochemistry and also received an MPH with a focus on syndromic surveillance and biosensor development. Her research interests include biomarker development and predicting breast cancer metastasis.

Amina El-Annan
Amina is a 4th year PhD student in American Studies and received her BA in English and Geography from UCLA. She worked on "The Tavis Smiley Show" and in urban planning before coming to Yale. Her interests include third world feminist theory, Islam and Modernity, Arab American and Muslim American communities, and responses and representations of in popular and literary culture.

Stephanie Greenlea
Stephanie is a 3rd year doctoral student in African- American Studies and Sociology. She received her BA in Sociology from Emory University. Her research interests include theories of race and racialized inequality, occupational stratification, and the sociology of education.

Tisha Hooks
Tisha Hooks is beginning her fourth year in the combined Ph.D. program in African American and American studies. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts and before reentering academia worked as an editor in Boston and New York.

Kenise Lyons
Kenise is currently a third year graduate student in the Italian department. She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a M. A. in Italian from the Catholic University of America. Her research interests include Italian intellectual history, the 19th and 20th century novel, as well as Italian cultural studies and film. Her conference papers include “Mery per Sempre and the Ashes of Gramsci” given at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies.

Simeon Man
Simeon Man is a second year Ph.D student in American Studies. He is broadly interested in the questions of race and liberalism in U.S. society, especially as they relate to the formation of the U.S. nation-state and empire from the 1930s to the 1950s. Other related areas of interest include the transnational practices of Asian American political activism and the question of Asian American subjectivities in liberal society.

Monica Martinez
Monica is a 2nd year PhD student in American Studies. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies and in American Civilization from Brown University. Her research interests include, Latina/o Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and 20th Century U.S. History. She studies cultural conflict in schools and engages popular conceptions of leadership in social movements.

Madison Moore
Madison Moore is a second year in the French Department. He received his BA in 2006 from the University of Michigan. Madison is currently working at the intersection of art history and performance studies. Research interests include: 20th century American/ French popular and visual culture, cultural history, modern and contemporary art, performance studies, mass media, queer studies. His fashion column, "Patent Leather", appears in the Yale Daily News.

Brandon Terry
Brandon is a PhD candidate in Political Science and African American Studies. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an AB in Government and African and African American Studies in 2005 and received an MSc in Political Theory Research as the 2005-2006 Michael von Clemm Fellow at Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. His academic interests include philosophy of race and racism, Black intellectual thought, US history, political philosophy, ethics, postcolonial theory, poverty and crime.

Yuenan Wang
Yuenan WANG, 4th year student in Biomedical Engineering at Yale. Her research is focused on the non-invasive diagnostic methods using MRI. Before coming to Yale for her PhD study, Yuenan obtained her BS in Tsinghua University in China and MS at Cornell University.