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The WFF Council guides the agenda of the organization.  The Council meets once per month to discuss projects and upcoming events. Ten to twelve Council members sit on the Steering Committee, leading the Council and representing the group in meetings with University administrators. Student liaisons from Yale College, the Graduate School, and the professional schools join the Council for meetings.

 

  • Linda Bockenstedt, Harold W. Jockers Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, and Director, Office of Faculty Development, Yale School of Medicine
  • Victoria L. Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management
  • Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of American Studies and African American Studies
  • Carol Carpenter, Senior Lecturer & Associate Research Scientist, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
  • Kamari Clarke, Professor of Anthropology
  • Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Professor of Graphic Design
  • Caren Gundberg, Professor of Orthopaedics, Yale School of Medicine
  • Barbara Guthrie, Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing
  • Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies
  • Amy Hungerford, Professor of English
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
  • Joanne Meyerowitz, Professor of History and American Studies
  • Julie Newman, Director of the Office of Sustainability
  • Sharon Oster, Dean of the Yale School of Management and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management
  • Nancy L. Ruther, Associate Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Lecturer Political Science
  • Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences, Yale Law School
  • Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology
  • Joann Sweasy, Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics
  • Anne Trites, Associate Professor, School of Drama
  • T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Engineering
  • Lisa Walke, Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Sarah Weiss, Associate Professor, Department of Music

 

Council at-Large

In an effort to be more inclusive of the varying career and life trajectories of our Council members, WFF has created the Council at-Large designation for Council members who wish to remain a part of the WFF Council but do not have the time, in a given academic year, to be fully active Council members.

 


Sarbani Basu, Professor of Astronomy

Sarbani Basu is currently professor in the Astronomy Department. She was educated in
India and held postdoctoral positions in the U.K. and Denmark before moving to the U.S.
to become a member of the Institute for Advances Study in Princeton. She joined Yale in
2000. Professors Basu's research involves studying stars, in particular the Sun, to
determine physical processes that take place inside them. A major focus of her work is
studying how the Sun changes on timescales that affect society. She is a member of the
Scientific Advisory Committee of the Global Oscillation Network Group, a network of six
telescopes spread around the world that observes and monitors the Sun constantly.email

 

Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07 and Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2009. She is the recipient of the Ernst Bloch prize in 2009.

She is the author of Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self. Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association’s best book of the year award) ; together with Drucilla Cornell, Feminism as Critique (1986); then with, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser, Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (1994); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, (2002) and The Rights of Others. Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004), which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political Science Association (2005) and the North American Society for Social Philosophy award (2004). Another Cosmopolitanism. Hospitality, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations, based on Professor Benhabib’s 2004 Tanner Lectures delivered at Berkeley, with responses by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig and Will Kymlicka has appeared from Oxford University Press in 2006.

She has also edited 8 volumes, ranging from discussions of communicative ethics, to democracy and difference, to identities, allegiances and affinities, and gender, citizenship and immigration. The latest is a volume coedited with Judith Resnik of the Yale Law School and called, Mobility and Immobility. Gender, Borders and Citizenship (2009).

Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Japanese and Chinese.

She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 1995 and has held the Gauss Lectures (Princeton, 1998); the Spinoza Chair for distinguished visitors (Amsterdam, 2001); the John Seeley Memorial Lectures (Cambridge, 2002), the Tanner Lectures (Berkeley, 2004) and was the Catedra Ferrater Mora Distinguished Professor in Girona, Spain (Summer 2005). She received an Honorary degree from the Humanistic University in Utrecht in 2004. email

 

Linda Bockenstedt, Harold W. Jockers Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, and Director, Office of Faculty Development, Yale School of Medicine

Linda Bockenstedt was appointed as the Yale School of Medicine's director for professional development and equity in February of 2006. This new position was designed to create proactive programs that will support the academic development of all faculty members and to encourage the growth of a diverse faculty at YSM. Her research activities center on elucidating the pathogenesis of Lyme disease, a tick-borne infection with the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Using intravital microscopy to image in real-time spirochete interactions with the tick and the mammalian host, she is studying 1) the mechanisms whereby spirochetes invade and disseminate after tick transmission and 2) the modes by which spirochetes evade immune destruction in vivo. Additional studies are defining the protein signatures of spirochetes during acute and chronic infection to improve diagnostic tests and the role of innate immunity in eventual clearance of spirochetes from the infected host. email

 

Victoria L. Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management

Victoria Brescoll, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, joined the School of Management in 2008 after receiving her PhD in social psychology at Yale where she was supported by a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on the impact of stereotypes on individuals' status within organizations, particularly the status of individuals who violate gender stereotypes. For example, one line of her work has shown that people reward men who get angry but view angry women as incompetent and unworthy of status and power in the workplace. The research was widely reported on in the popular press including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. She also does research on the cultural origins of stereotypes (e.g., the media), lay conceptions of biological essentialism, and corporate social responsibility. She has also worked as an aide to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, covering women’s issues, education, reproductive choice, welfare, and children’s issues. She continues to be active in politics and policy analysis. email


Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration

Alicia Schmidt Camacho is Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race at Migration at Yale University. Her current scholarship concerns the feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez, transnational migration, border governance, and social movements in the Americas. She has published articles about gender violence, migration, labor, and human rights in the Mexico-U.S. border region. Her book, Migrant Imaginaries: Cultural Politics in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands (NYU, 2008) was awarded the 2009 Lora Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies by the American Studies Association. She is at work on a second book, The Event without Witness: State Violence and Migrant Suffering on the North American Migratory Circuit. She serves on the board of Junta for Progressive Action, a community agency serving the Latina/o community of Fair Haven, and is a contributor to local and transnational projects for immigrant and human rights. email

Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of American Studies and African American Studies

Hazel V. Carby is Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies and Director of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization (IRGG).

Her books include Reconstructing Womanhood (OUP, 1987), Race Men (Harvard, 1998), and Cultures in Babylon (Verso, 1999). Recent publications include: "Becoming a Modern Racialized Subject: 'detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew'" Cultural Studies 23, 4 July 2009 and "Lost (and Found) in Translation, Small Axe 28 March 2009. Her current book in progress is Child of Empire. Hazel Carby is a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S.A.

Professor Carby teaches courses on issues of race, gender and sexuality through the culture and literature of the Caribbean and its diaspora; through transnational and postcolonial literature and theory; through representations of the black female body; and through the genres of science fiction. email

 

Carol Carpenter, Senior Lecturer & Associate Research Scientist, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Dr. Carpenter’s teaching and research interests focus on the history and theory of environmental anthropology, the social science of sustainable development and conservation, applications of economic anthropology to environmental issues, and gender in agrarian and ecological systems. She spent four years in Indonesia engaged in household and community-level research on rituals (including the ethnobotany of rituals) and social networks. She then spent four years in Pakistan working as a development consultant, on social forestry and women in development issues, for USAID, the World Bank, and the Asia Foundation, among others. She has held teaching positions at Syracuse University, the University of Hawaii, and Hawaii-Pacific University, and a research position at the East-West Center. Her current interests include the implications for sustainable development of the economic and political invisibility of women’s activities in agrarian households. She recently completed Environmental Anthropology: An Historical Reader (co-edited with Michael Dove, Blackwell, 2008). She is a fellow of Calhoun College. email

 

Kamari Maxine Clarke, Professor of Anthropology

Over the years Kamari Clarke's research has ranged from studies of social and religious movements in the United States and West Africa to related transnational legal movements, to inquiries into the cultural politics of power and justice in the burgeoning realm of international tribunals and human rights movements. She is the author of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Networks (Duke University Press, 2004), Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Politics of Blackness (Duke University Press. 2006) , Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge Press, 2009), and Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (Cambridge Press, 2009). Professor Clarke received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Masters of law from Yale Law School. email

 

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Professor of Graphic Design

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville directs studies in Graphic Design and creates community based public art. Her appointment in 1990 made her the first tenured woman faculty member in the School of Art. Her publications on art and culture include The Photographs of Dorothy Norman and The Motown Album; among a dozen public works is the Path of Stars in New Haven, Omoide npoShotkyo in Los Angeles and Step(pe) inYekaterinburg, Russia. Sheila redesigned the Los Angeles Times, and special issues of Everywoman, American Cinematographer, and Arts in Society. Her posters and fine press editions are found in the special collections of many libraries and museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Centre Pompdou in Paris. In 1971, she created the first women’s design program at the California Institute of the Arts and, in 1973, founded the Woman’s Building and its Women’s Graphic Center in Los Angeles. Professor Levrant de Bretteville received a BA in art history from Barnard College, an MFA from Yale University and honorary doctorates from several colleges of art and design. email

 

Glenda Gilmore, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History

Glenda E. Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and Acting Chair of the Department of African American Studies. She earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her latest book, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, came out in January, 2008. The Washington Post named it one of the best books of 2008, and The Notable Books Council of the American Library Association named it one of the twelve best nonfiction books of the year. Defying Dixie received honorable mention in the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Awards. Her previous monograph, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1986-1920, published in 1996, won Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize. In 2006-2007, she was the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Radcliffe at Harvard University. With co-author Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania, she is working on a history of the United States in the twentieth century. She is on the Executive Council of the Southern Historical Association and a former president of the Southern Association for Women Historians.
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Caren Gundberg, Professor of Orthopaedics, Yale School of Medicine

Caren Gundberg joined the Yale faculty in 1987. She is a biochemist and Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation. Her research specialty is in the field of bone biology with special emphasis on structural proteins, biomineralization, and development of novel methods to assess bone formation and loss. From 2002-2004, she was a member of the Commission on Women Faculty which addressed faculty issues related to gender parity at the Medical School. She currently is also a member of the Dean's Committee on the Status of Women in Medicine. She received her BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, PhD from Boston University, and post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School. email

 

Barbara Guthrie, Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing

Barbara Guthrie is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Tenured Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Nursing (YSN). Her nursing education began at Howard University’s Freedmen Hospital School of Nursing where she received a diploma in nursing. Dr. Guthrie received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Boston University, her master’s of science in nursing (in Family Health) from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her PhD from the New York University School of Nursing.

Prior to accepting the position at Yale University School of Nursing, Dr. Guthrie held a dual appointment, at the University of Michigan, as an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction and Women Studies. Dr. Guthrie also was the Director for Undergraduate Traditional and Non-Traditional Nursing Programs at Michigan and was the Associate Director of a T-32, a Women’s Health Disparities Interdisciplinary Training Grant funded by National Institute of Nursing research (NINR).

Dr. Guthrie’s research and health activism-in combination- has afforded her the privilege of working in concert with adolescent girls, from diverse ethnic, social class, and environmental contexts, to identify, to research, and to design ethnic and gender responsive health promotion programs. Always foregrounding intersectional issues of ethnicity, gender, age, and class, her collaborative research efforts with adolescent females has led to her receiving funding from such agencies as The National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute for Nursing Research, Josiah Macy Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Her current research focuses on examining the intergenerational influences, behaviors, and contact with criminal justice systems between women and their children and especially their daughters.

Dr. Guthrie has served as a member of several local, state, and national adolescent female’s health advisory boards such as the first National Female Adolescent Technical Expert Group, American Bar Association Advisory Board for Girls in Juvenile Justice systems, Girls Scouts of American’s Research Board, and Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)’s Adolescent Female and Substance Use Research Advisory panel. Currently, she is a member of the NIH’s National Institute of Nursing Research Advisor Council. email


Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies

Dolores Hayden writes about the political and cultural history of American urban and suburban landscapes. Her award-winning books include The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (1981), Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (1984, 2002), and The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995). Her most recent books on metropolitan form include Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (2003) and A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004), both selected by Planetizen as top ten urban books. Hayden has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She taught at MIT, UC Berkeley, and UCLA before coming to Yale in 1991. Educated at Mount Holyoke College, Cambridge University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Hayden is also a poet who has won awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club. Her collection American Yard appeared in 2004. Hayden was a founding member of WFF and co-organizer of the Gender Matters conference in 2001 with Nancy Cott and Judith Resnik. Her website is www.doloreshayden.com. (Former WFF Steering member.) email

Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Margaret Homans has taught at Yale since 1978. She writes and teaches about nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and feminist criticism and theory, with particular interest in George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. She is the author of Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson (1980); Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (1986); Royal Representations: Queen Victorian and Victorian Culture, 1837-1876; and essays on Victorian literature, on recent African American women writers, on feminist criticism and theory, and on adoption. She is currently writing a book about adoption narratives and feminist theory. She is co-editor of Remaking Queen Victoria (1997). Professor Homans received her BA and PhD from Yale University. email

 

Amy Hungerford, Professor of English

Amy Hungerford was educated at the Johns Hopkins University, earning a BA and then
graduate degrees in creative writing (poetry) and in English and American literature.
Since she came to Yale as an Assistant Professor in 1999, her research and teaching have
focused on American literature in the second half of the twentieth century. Her work is
attentive to literature as an art form and to its place in the history of American
culture. She is the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and
Personification (University of Chicago Press, 2003), about genocide and literature as
they become entwined in the decades following World War II, and Postmodern Belief:
American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (forthcoming, Princeton Univ. Press), which examines how religious thought and practice shape American literary culture in the second  half of the twentieth century. She is currently writing a student text, The Cambridge Introduction to the American Novel Since 1945, a project that grows out of her undergraduate teaching. She has won the Poorvu Prize for excellence in interdisciplinary teaching in Yale College, and her survey, “The American Novel Since 1945,” was chosen as one of the Open Yale Courses, and is now available in its entirety online. As one of the founders of Post•45, a collective of prominent younger scholars working in the field of American literature and culture since 1945, she works to foster both individual and collaborative efforts to advance this emerging area of scholarship. email

 

Paula E. Hyman, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History

Paula Hyman has taught at Yale since 1986. She writes and teaches about modern European and American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on the history of women and gender. She has written and edited many books including The Jews of Modern France, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, and Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History. She is president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Professor Hyman received her BA from Radcliffe College and her PhD from Columbia University. email

 

Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Christine Jacobs-Wagner studies the innerworkings of bacteria and their role in cellular physiology and morphogenesis. She received her MS and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Liège, Belgium. In 2001, after completing a 4-year postdoctoral training at Stanford School of Medicine, she joined Yale Faculty as an Assistant Professor in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. She is currently a Maxine F. Singer Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology where she runs a laboratory and teaches Microbiology to Yale undergraduate students. She also holds a secondary appointment at the Microbial Pathogenesis Section at Yale Medical School, and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. email

 

Mary Lui, Associate Professor of American Studies

Mary Lui is Associate Professor of American Studies and History. Her primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). The book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870-1920. She is currently working on a new book project, Making Model Minorities: Asian Americans, Race, and Citizenship in Cold War America at Home and Abroad. The book provides a history of Asian Americans in U.S. State Department cultural diplomacy efforts to understand the transnational racial formations of Asian Americans at mid-century within the domestic context of desegregation and the international context of decolonization and Cold War geopolitics. email

Joanne Meyerowitz, Professor of History and American Studies

Joanne Meyerowitz is professor of History and American Studies. She is the author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States and Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930 and the editor of History and September 11th and Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America. Her recent articles include "A History of 'Gender,;" American Historical Review (December 2008) and "Transnational Sex and U.S. History," American Historical Review (December 2009). Before she came to Yale five years ago, she taught at Indiana University and the University of Cincinnati and also edited the Journal of American History. She has received fellowships from, among others, the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Social Science Research Council. Her current research projects address social constructionist thought in the mid-twentieth century U.S. and the history of the concept of "sexual repression." Her areas of teaching are twentieth–century U.S. history, women, gender, and sexuality. With George Chauncey, she co-directs the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities. email

 

Julie Newman, Director of the Office of Sustainability

Julie Newman was hired as the first Director of the Office of Sustainability at Yale University. She came to Yale from the University of New Hampshire, Office of Sustainability Programs (OSP) where she assisted with the development of the program since its inception in 1997. Julie also holds a lecturer appointment with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. During the spring semester Julie teaches an undergraduate course entitled - Sustainability: From theory to practice in institutions.

In 2004 Julie co-founded the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium, to advance education and action for sustainable development on university campuses in the northeast and maritime region. Julie also co-coordinates a sustainability working group of the International Alliance of Research Universities. In addition, Julie is a co-editor of the new Sustainability: Journal of Record. Her research has focused on the role of decision-making processes and organizational behavior in institutionalizing sustainability into higher education.

Julie holds a BS in Natural Resource Policy and Management from the University of Michigan; an MS in Environmental Policy and Biology from Tufts University; and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies from the University of New Hampshire. email

 

Sharon Oster, Dean of the Yale School of Management and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Economics & Management

Sharon M. Oster is Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management. A specialist in competitive strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit strategy, she has written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive strategy. Her book Modern Competitive Analysis (1990, 2nd edition 1993, 3rd edition 1999), used in many business schools, integrates a broad range of views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second book, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations (1995), takes the same economic approach to managing nonprofit organizations. She has recently joined fellow economists and educators Karl E. Case and Ray C. Fair as a co-author of the widely used introductory economics texts Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Economics, both currently in their 9th editions.

Dean Oster joined the faculty at the Yale School of Management as associate professor of economics and management in 1982, and was the first woman to receive tenure at SOM, in 1983. She is also the first recipient of the Yale School of Management Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 1988, and received this recognition a second time in 2008. Since joining the SOM faculty, she has played a leadership role in the growth and development of the school’s economics group. Beginning in 2006, Dean Oster has been one of the key senior faculty members involved in the design and implementation of the Yale School of Management’s innovative integrated MBA curriculum.

Oster served as associate dean of the Yale SOM from 1992 to 1994, and, since its inception, has also served as the director of the school’s Program on Social Enterprise, which supports work on nonprofit and public organizations, as well as initiatives in the area of corporate social responsibility. From 2002 to 2005, Oster was co-director of the Yale School of Management-Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Organizations, in cooperation with the Pew Charitable Trusts. This partnership sponsored an annual national business plan competition for nonprofit organizations from 2003 to 2005, and awarded $1.5 million in prizes to 24 nonprofit ventures and over $2 million worth of technical assistance to 60 semi-finalist organizations.

Dean Oster has consulted widely to private, public, and nonprofit organizations, and currently serves on the boards of a number of for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including Health Care REIT, Yale University Press, and Amistad Academy. She is a 1970 graduate of Hofstra College, from which she also received an honorary doctorate in 2001. She received her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1974. A long-time resident of New Haven, she is married to fellow Yale economist (and co-author) Ray Fair, and has three grown children. email

Frances Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of International Politics

Frances Rosenbluth’s research and teaching center on comparative political economy, with a particular focus on Japan and the political economy of gender. Among her gender-related work, she has edited a book entitled The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2007) and co-authored (with Torben Iversen, Government, Harvard University) Women, Work, and Power: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality (Yale University Press 2010). She has also published (with Torben Iversen and David Soskice, "Divorce and the Gender Division of Labor in Comparative Perspective," Social Politics, summer 2005; (with Torben Iversen) "The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap," American Journal of Political Science, January 2006; "Work Matters: Female Political Representation in Comparative Perspective" (with Rob Salmond and Michael Thies, Gender and Politics 2007). email

 

Nancy L. Ruther, Associate Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and Lecturer in Political Science

Nancy Ruther came to Yale in 1988 with the MacMillan Center, then called "YCIAS," the principal unit at Yale for research, teaching, and community outreach in international and world regional affairs. Ms. Ruther manages faculty, fellowships, exchanges, curriculum development and educational outreach for the eighteen interdisciplinary international faculty-led Councils and Programs of the MacMillan Center. The curriculum, serving over 300 students a year, includes eight undergraduate majors, four masters degrees and six graduate certificate programs in area studies, international affairs, development and security studies. She is also the MacMillan Center liaison for library, foreign languages and federal relations. Her research has focused on US federal policy on international higher education and higher education policy and international development. Recently, she prepared a report for the National Academy of Sciences on implementing federal programs in international higher education. She has taught in Yale's Masters in International Relations and earlier at the University of Connecticut. Ms. Ruther began her career as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Bolivia and she has done consulting, training and research in Latin America, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and Western Europe. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and completed masters degrees at Pitt and Cornell and her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts. email

 

Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences, Yale Law School

Vicki Schultz is the Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences at Yale Law School, where she teaches courses on employment discrimination law, social science and the law, workplace theory and policy, work, gender and the law, feminist theory, and related subjects. Schultz has written and lectured widely on a variety of subjects related to antidiscrimination law, including workplace harassment, sex segregation on the job, work-family issues, working hours, and the meaning of work in people’s lives. Her published work includes "Sex and Work," 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 223 (2006), "The Need for a Reduced Workweek in the United States," in Judith Fudge & Rosemary Owen, eds., Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (2006), "The Sanitized Workplace," 112 Yale Law Journal 2061 (2003), "Life's Work," 100 Columbia Law Review 1881 (2000), and "Reconceptualizing Sexual Harassment," 107 Yale Law Journal 1683 (1998). Her work has had great influence in both legal and social science circles. She has been cited widely in the national news media and has appeared on such shows as The News Hour, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio.

Schultz is currently working on an article, to be expanded into a book, which traces intellectual and conceptual history of antidiscrimination law and which documents the emergence of a new paradigm for understanding and addressing discrimination. She is also co-authoring an article which analyzes the likely effects of marriage on the division of housework and childcare in gay and lesbian couples. She recently gave the keynote address on “Civil Rights and the Low Wage Worker” for the University of Chicago Legal Forum symposium.

Schultz is a past president of the Labor and Employment Section of the Association for American Law Schools and a past Trustee of the Law and Society Association. She has held significant fellowships, including the Evelyn Green Davis fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and fellowships at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (her alma mater) and at UCLA Law School. A former trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Schultz began her academic career at the University of Wisconsin Law School where she became interested in the sociological study of law. At Yale, she has run the Workplace Theory and Policy Workshop and the Work and Welfare group, interdisciplinary groups which explore legal and social inequality. Schultz lives in Woodbridge, CT with her daughter Natalie. email

Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology

Helen F. Siu, Ph.D. Stanford 1981, is professor of anthropology, and former Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Her teaching interests are political and historical anthropology, urban and global culture change. Since the 1970s, she has conducted fieldwork in South China, exploring the nature of the socialist state, the refashioning of identities through rituals, festivals, commerce and consumption. Lately, she focuses on the rural-urban divide in Chinese cities, civil society and the middle classes in Hong Kong. She was a member of the University Grants Committee (1992-2001) and the Research Grant’s Council (1996-2001) in Hong Kong. In the U.S. she has served on the Committee for Advanced Study in China and the National Screening Committee for Fulbright awards in the U.S. In 2001, she established the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences to promote creative, interdisciplinary research. Her publications include two volumes on Chinese literature (Mao’s Harvest: Voices of China’s New Generation, co-editor Zelda Stern, Oxford 1983; Furrows: Peasants, Intellectuals and the State, Stanford 1990); a monograph in anthropology (Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution, Yale 1989); two volumes on history (co-editor David Faure, Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China, Stanford 1995); Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China (U California, 2006; co-editors Pamela K. Crossley and Donald Sutton); two volumes on social studies (SARS: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities, co-editor Deborah Davis, Routledge 2007; Hong Kong Mobile: Making a Mobile Population, Hong Kong U Press 2008). A forthcoming edited volume focuses on Chinese women, entitled Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China, Hong Kong U Press 2009. email

Jessica Stockholder, Professor School of Art

Jessica Stockholder is professor and director of graduate studies in sculpture. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Victoria inCanada in 1982 and her M.F.A. from Yale in 1985. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including the Dia Center for the Arts, The Blaffer Gallery, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Open Air Museum in Middellheim, Belgium, and the Power Plant in Toronto,Canada. Her work is represented in the collections of the Albright- Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim fellowship, and most recently the Lucilia Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Ms. Stockholder was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1999. email

 

Joann B. Sweasy, Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics

Joann Sweasy is interested in basic mechanisms of mutation and how they are related to human cancer. She studies the structure and function of proteins that facilitate the repair of DNA and is especially interested in how alteration of these proteins leads to human cancer and impacts cancer therapy. Joann is a recipient of the American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award, is a Donaghue Investigator, and was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering. She received her PhD in Microbiology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. After completing postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in 1993, she joined the Yale School of Medicine Faculty as an Assistant Professor. She is currently a Professor in the Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics. email


Emilie M. Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology

Emilie M. Townes, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of the Divinity School and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology Emilie Townes has been instrumental in constructing "womanist theology," a field of theological and ethical reflection in which the historic and present-day insights of African American women are brought into critical conversation with the traditions of Christian theology. In her teaching and writing, Townes has explored womanist perspectives on theological themes, linking the subjects of race, gender and class and issues such as health care, economic justice, poetry and linguistic theory. She has also explored the interrelationship between culture and evil. She is an ordained American Baptist clergywoman, who came to Yale from Union Theological Seminary, where she was the Carolyn Williams Baird Professor of Christian Ethics. Townes is a former president of the American Academy of Religion and a newly named fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. email

 

Anne Trites , Assistant Professor, Yale School of Drama

Anne Trites, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Theater Management/Director of Marketing and Communications, joined Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre in 2002. She serves as Advisor to the first-year theater management students and is a member of the Yale Cabaret board. Expertise in marketing was developed in her native Canada. She worked as Director of Marketing, Communications and Development for Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company, Confederation Centre of the Arts in Prince Edward Island and The Grand Theatre in Ontario. She was Marketing Director for Ontario’s Shaw Festival and held the same role earlier at The Vancouver Playhouse on the west coast. Other theatres in which Anne worked include the Stratford Festival of Canada and the Toronto International Festival of Music and Dance. Consulting experience includes work in the corporate and social services sector as well as the arts. She has been a member of the board of directors for Tourism London (Canada), the Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Tourism Marketing Authority of Prince Edward Island. In addition, she worked on the Japan Marketing Association for the Province of Prince Edward Island, Strategic Advisory Committee for Tourism (Ontario Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation), and has served on numerous other arts and tourism committees. She also served as an Assessor for the Training Initiatives Program for the Canadian Cultural Resources Council. email

 

Katie Trumpener, Emily Sanford Professor of English and Comparative
Literature

Katie Trumpener works on the history of the novel, anglophone literature, Central European literature and culture, postwar European film. Her first book, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire (Princeton University Press, 1997) focuses in part on the role of Irish, Scottish and colonial women writers in developing new novelistic genres. Her second book, The Divided Screen: The Cinemas of Postwar Germany, includes sections on the West German women's film, on West German feminist filmmaking, on East German narratives of female emancipation, and on women documentarians. She is working on a project on European modernists' depictions of childhood (and the diverging social histories of childrearing across Europe and the European empires), as well as on a book of essays about the early history of children's literature. Raised in Canada (and West Germany), she received an AM from Harvard in English and American Literature and a PhD from Stanford in Comparative Literature. email

 

T. Kyle Vanderlick, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Engineering

T. Kyle Vanderlick is the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale University and the Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Engineering. She received her B.S. ('81) and M.S. ('83) degrees in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and her Ph.D. ('88) from the University of Minnesota. After a one year NATO post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Mainz in Germany, she joined the faculty in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. In 1998 she joined Princeton University and became Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2004. In January 2008, Vanderlick took the helm as Dean of Engineering at Yale University.
Noted for her research in interfacial phenomena, currently centered on biological and synthetic membrane-based materials, Vanderlick received the Presidential Young Investigator Award ('89) as well as the prestigious David and Lucile Packard Fellowship ('91). She is also the recipient of numerous teaching awards including the highest such honors at both Penn (1993 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching) and Princeton (2002 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching). As Dean of Engineering, she led the establishment of the new Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, and is directing new initiatives in both teaching and research to shape the School’s distinctive identity and its premier role in engineering education.email

 

Lisa M. Walke, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Lisa M. Walke is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Geriatrics Consult Service for the West Haven VA. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Walke completed her internal medicine residency training at Montefiore Medical Center in NYC. She is a graduate of the Yale fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. Dr. Walke joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty after completing her fellowship training in 2003. Her research focuses on the management of symptoms in older adults with chronic illness and preventing functional decline in older surgical patients. Clinically, she has established a new model of care with her surgical colleagues at the West Haven VA in which geriatric surgical patients are co-managed by geriatrics and surgery throughout the pre to post-operative periods. Dr. Walke combines her interest in geriatric education and international travel by serving as a Visiting Consultant for the Ile-Ife Adventist Hospital in Nigeria. e-mail

 

Sarah Weiss, Associate Professor, Department of Music

Working primarily in Asian performing arts, Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in both her writing and teaching. Her book, Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java was published in 2006 by KITLV Press in Leiden. Weiss is now working on a comparative study of women as performers in five world religions. Entitled Ritual Soundings: Women, Religion and Music, the book will be published by the University of Illinois Press. Her on-going projects include a comparative study of rasa in Indonesia and India; an investigation into the effects of hybridity on listening reception across cultures (Yung Wing lecture, Peking University, April 2008); the theorizing of the "postcolonial" in music; and a project with her graduate students on affinity groups and choral communities, working with members of the dynamic Yale undergraduate a cappella world. She is director of the Yale Javanese ensemble, Gamelan Suprabanggo.

Sarah Weiss holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music and an MA and Ph.D. in Musicology from New York University. Before coming to Yale in 2005, she taught in the Departments of Music at the University of Sydney and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and was a visiting professor in the Department of Music at Harvard University. email

 

Elisabeth Wood, Professor of Political Science

Elisabeth Jean Wood is Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is currently writing a book on variation in sexual violence during war, drawing on field research in Colombia, Peru, Sri Lanka, Israel/Palestine, and South Africa. She is the author of Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Among her recent articles are "Sexual Violence during War: Toward an Understanding of Variation," (in Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), "Armed groups and sexual violence: when is wartime rape rare?" (Politics and Society, 2009), and "The Social Processes of Civil War," (Annual Review of Political Science, 2008). She serves on the editorial boards of Politics and Society, The American Political Science Review, and the Contentious Politics series of Cambridge University Press. At Yale, Elisabeth teaches courses on comparative politics, political violence, social movements, and qualitative research methods. email

 
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