Fellows

Chris George

Kevin Glick

Kevin is responsible for defining and evolving the Aviary product roadmap, its positioning in the market, and its strategy for growing a customer base and serving those customers with care and diligence. He joins AVP after two decades as an archivist at Yale University Library’s Manuscripts & Archives, focusing on digitization, digital libraries, digital preservation, and other technology issues in special collections and archives. He has been involved with AVP for a number of years, as a customer and partner, and has been a part of Aviary development since its inception. Kevin holds an MLS from the University of Albany, an MA in Medieval Studies from Western Michigan University and a BA in History from Ohio University.

Robert Gooding-Williams

Robert Gooding-Williams joins the FAS as Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy. Over the course of his career, Gooding-Williams has taught at Simmons College, Amherst College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001), Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2005), and In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (Harvard, 2009). Gooding-Williams’s Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures, Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, will be published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2025. Gooding-Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and in 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2023, the Yale GSAS Alumni Association awarded Gooding-Williams the Wilbur Cross Medal, the highest honor that GSAS bestows on alumni. Gooding-Williams received both his BA (1975) and his PhD (1982) from Yale University.

Andrew Graham

Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin, who received his doctorate at Yale University under the direction of Emilia Viotti da Costa and Gilbert Joseph, previously taught at New York University for nineteen years.  He is the author of seven books, including The Blood of Guatemala, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for best book published on Latin America in any discipline, The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award, The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history, Kissinger’s Shadow, and The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a finalist in the history category.  Grandin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians.  He has co-edited, with Gil Joseph, A Century of Revolution, and, with Deborah Levenson and Elizabeth Oglesby, The Guatemala Reader.  Grandin has published widely, in The Nation, where he is a member of the editorial board,the London Review of Books, the New Republic, NACLA’s Report on the Americas, and the New York Times, among other venues.  He is a regular guest on Democracy Now!  A revised edition of Empire’s Workshop is forthcoming. 

Laurel Grodman

Laurel Grodman is Managing Director of Admissions at the Yale School of Management.  Laurel graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Yale College and received her M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.  With a deep interest in consumer behavior and innovation, she has served as a marketer for multi-million dollar brands across a variety of industries as a Brand Manager at Unilever, a Management Associate at Citi Cards and at the advertising agency Grey Group.  Laurel returned to New Haven in 2010, where she joined the Career Development Office at the Yale School of Management.  In 2014 she joined Yale SOM Admissions, where she leads the admissions committee and drives efforts to infuse data-driven thinking into the admissions process.