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Sherman Baldwin

Guest Fellow, College Seminar ProgramEmail Sherman Baldwin

Elizabeth Ballantine

EBA Associates

John Bargh

PsychologyEmail John Bargh

Timothy Barringer

History of Art

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art. He specializes in the eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art of Britain and the British Empire, nineteenth-century American and German art and museum studies. Following positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Universities of London and Birmingham in Great Britain, he came to Yale in 1998. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (Yale, 1998), Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain(Yale, 2005) Opulence and Anxiety (2007), catalogue for an exhibition at Compton Verney, and Before and After Modernism (Central St Martins, 2010).

Kathryn Bell

Center for International ExperienceEmail Kathryn Bell

Deborah (Deb) Bellmore

Assistant Director of Operations, Trumbull CollegeEmail Deborah (Deb) Bellmore

Lucas Bender

East Asian Laguages and LiteraturesEmail Lucas Bender

Michael Bennick

Internal Medicine Education

Peter Bensinger

College Seminar

After graduating Stanford in 1980, Peter returned to Chicago to study improv for a year with Paul Sills, the original artistic director of The Second City – Chicago’s improv theater whose alumni include many Saturday Night Live performers. He then moved to New York City and worked as an actor for five years before going to New York University School of Law and becoming a commercial trial lawyer. Peter started at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, then went to Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, and then spun off with Bartlit Beck LLP twenty-five years ago. He spent most of his career doing pharmaceutical patent/antitrust cases.

For the past fifteen years, Peter has been the Bartlit Beck partner responsible for professional development (lawyer training), new lawyer orientation, and attorney performance review. Twenty years ago, he also co-founded and taught for the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law an experiential workshop seminar called “High Tech Trial Techniques.” The class covered presentation stagecraft, digital presentation of evidence, best practices and custom animation in PowerPoint, and the use of trial graphics in trial and appellate briefs. He has also taught Continuing Legal Education classes on variety of topics, including patents 101, taking and defending depositions, examining fact and expert witnesses, delivering opening and closing statements, “Dealing with Jerks – using Aikido and active listening to deal with difficult opposing counsel,” “Presentation Stagecraft – using fundamental theatre techniques to enhance connection and persuasiveness,” and “Enhancing Ensemble Performance – using stagecraft to facilitate connection and inclusion.”

In addition to Peter’s work as a trial lawyer and teacher, he has experience as a civic leader:

  • President, Chicago Sinai Congregation (2009-2012) (chicagosinai.org)
  • Executive Committee member, Trustee, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (luriechidrens.org)
  • Chairman, Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute of Lurie Children’s Hospital
  • Chairman, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership (spertus.edu)
  • Chairman, Professionals Network of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, and Trustee, Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago (juf.org)

His Fall 2019 Trumbull residential seminar “Leadership as Behavior” weaves together lessons learned from the theater, from leading trial teams in high

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James Benson

Yale HospitalityEmail James Benson

Graeme Berlyn

Forestry and Environmental Studies

Graeme Berlyn’s interests are the morphology and physiology of trees and forests in relation to environmental stress. Leaves are the most responsive and vulnerable organs of trees, and Professor Berlyn studies the ways that leaf structure and function reveal the effects of environmental change such as global warming or altitudinal and latitudinal gradients. In addition, these studies can help determine the optimum range of habitats for individual species and thus be of use in reforestation and aforestation. Some of the techniques used to study these problems are: light processing by leaves in relation to environmental factors as measured by chlorophyll fluorescence, photosynthesis, spectral reflectance, absorption, and transmission; and image analysis of leaf and tree structure. Professor Berlyn has also pioneered in the development of organic biostimulants that can help plants resist insect, disease, and other environmental stressors while reducing fertilizer use. Thus the Berlyn lab focuses on how to measure the stress of plant life and also on how to ameliorate it. Students in the Berlyn lab are currently working on such topics as structural and functional change along elevational gradients in mountains, molecular control of sun/shade leaf phenotypic plasticity, response of tropical pioneer species to gaps in tropical forests, and the role of antioxidants, stress vitamins, and mycorrhizas in organic biostimulants.

Jasmina Beširević Regan

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Yale College and Associate Dean for Graduate Education, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Jasmina Beširević Regan graduated from Augsburg College summa cum laude earning the Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology in 1997. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Sociology from YaleUniversity in 2004 having also earned the Master’s degrees there. Her dissertation on ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian city of Banja Luka focuses on the emergence of a Bosnian Muslim refugee community. 

Jasmina is currently an Associate Dean at the Graduate School. She serves on numerous university committees and is part of various speaking engagements on student life at Yale. In addition, she is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Global Affairs, and Ethnicity, Race and Migration at Yale. Her teaching and research interests include genocide and ethnic conflict, identity and nationalism. Her current work focuses on the Bosnian Muslim identity and disintegration of former Yugoslavia. She has presented papers on the sociology of genocide at a number of professional meetings and has been invited to speak at international conferences both in the U.S. and abroad.  

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Ruth Blake

Geology and Geophysics

Ruth Blake’s research has been the characterization and interpretation of oxygen isotope fractionations in the PO4-water system during biogeochemical cycling of phosphorous in natural waters and sediments. A major area of current research surrounds characterization and “ground-truthing” of 18O/16O ratios (18O) signatures of phosphates in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal Fe-oxide deposits, with the goal of identifying reliable 18Op biosignatures and isotopic tracers of microbial activity and phosphorous cycling at mid-ocean ridges, in Earth’s deep biosphere, Mars and beyond. Many of the activities her laboratory are devoted to development of methods for extraction and O isotopic analysis of PO4 in a range of geologic, biologic and extraterrestrial materials including deep-sea sediments, ancient rocks; biomass, and Martian soil analogue materials.

William Boughton

Yale Symphony Orchestra

William Boughton was born into a musical family. His grandfather was a composer, his father a professional viola player, and his mother a vocalist. After studying cello at the New England Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music, and Prague Academy, he entered the profession in London, playing with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London Sinfonietta and for the BBC.

Playing in orchestras led Boughton to discover his passion for conducting, which he pursued in studies with George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. Boughton formed the English Symphony Orchestra in 1980, commissioned 21 new works and made 80 recordings many of which reached the Top 10 in the Billboard Charts. He was also Principal Conductor of the Jyvaskyla Sinfonia in Finland and has conducted orchestras from San Francisco to St Petersburg and from 2007 -2019 Boughton was the 10th Music Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra with whom he twice earned an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2011 and 2014.

At Yale, Boughton teaches graduate-level classes in Score Reading and Analysis and a combined Undergraduate/Graduate class in Conducting. He is the Music Director of the undergraduate Yale Symphony Orchestra.

He is currently researching for a book on the Life and Music of the English composer Nicholas Maw, who was a visiting Professor of Music at Yale in 1984 and 89.

Awards: Gramophone Magazine Critic’s Choice for recording of Walton’s Violin Concerto and First Symphony with NHSO (2010), ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming with NHSO (2011 & 2014), Yale School of Music – Cultural Leadership Citation, Distinguished Contribution to Music (2019).

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Susan Brady

Retired, Beinecke Library

Susan Brady has been an archivist and librarian at Yale for over 25 years, and currently is an archivist at the Beinecke Library. Specializing in performing arts archives, she processes (catalogs) archival collections and assists readers in identifying materials related to their research topics. She serves as a Personal Librarian to Trumbull College freshmen and sophomores. Originally from Austin, Texas, Susan has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Theater, and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Susan loves to travel, hike, and attend theater, dance, and music performances. She is a yoga practitioner and teacher.

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William Brainard

Emeritus, Economics

Emma Brennan-Wydra

Child Study CenterEmail Emma Brennan-Wydra

Tracy Brent

Tracy Brent Collections

Victoria Brescoll

School of Mangement

Victoria Brescoll’s research focuses on the impact of stereotypes on individuals’ status and power within organizations, particularly for individuals who violate gender stereotypes. Her study “Can an Angry Woman Get Ahead? Gender, Status Conferral, and Workplace Emotion Expression,” published in Psychological Science, concluded 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, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and U.S. News & World Report.

Additionally, Professor Brescoll examines how having power may differentially affect men and women’s behavior at work. In 2012, she published a paper in Administrative Science Quarterly, “Who Takes the Floor and Why: Gender, Power, and Volubility in Organizations,” showing that, for men, there is a strong relationship between having power and talking a lot in organizational settings (e.g., the United States Senate), but for women, there is no such relationship. Her other research interests include the cultural origins of stereotypes (e.g. the media), corporate social responsibility, and framing messages to improve health policy.

She received her MS, MPhil, and PhD in social psychology from Yale University where she was supported by a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. She completed her BA in psychology from the University of Michigan. In 2004, Professor Brescoll worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton under a Congressional Fellowship. 

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Cynthia Brill

Brill Journalism Enterprises

Cynthia Brill came to Yale the first year that women undergraduates were admitted and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science in 1972. She worked briefly for the Mayor’s Office for The City of New York and then obtained a law degree (J.D.) from N.Y.U. in 1977. She practiced law as a commercial litigator for 5 years, before joining her husband in running The American Lawyer and Court TV as General Counsel. Since then, Cynthia has served as General Counsel in a variety of media businesses; the most recent is Journalism Online, which is a company providing software as a service to newspaper companies.

With her husband Steven Brill (Yale College 1972; Yale Law School 1975) they have endowed the Yale Journalism Initiative, which provides an infrastructure of courses and professional assistance for students interested in pursuing careers in journalism.
They have three children, two of whom graduated from Yale College( in 2007 and 2010); our 2007 graduate also received a law degree from Yale Law School in 2011.

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