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Surjit ChandhokeResidential College Dean, Trumbull CollegeDean Surjit K. Chandhoke is the Dean of Trumbull College and a faculty member in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology department. She received her Bachelor of Science in Cellular Biochemistry from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh. Her enjoyment of research and teaching led her to pursue her PhD in Anatomy and Cell Biology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. Her dissertation research focused on leukocyte integrins, molecules that are important for cell attachment and adhesion. Her love of microscopy and the cytoskeleton led her to Prof. Mark Mooseker’s laboratory in the Yale MCDB department in 2007, where she pursued postdoctoral research on a myosin motor protein (Myo9b) implicated in inflammatory bowel disease. From 2012-2016, she served as a course coordinator for the foundational Biology (BIOL) modules here at Yale. Dean Chandhoke lives in Trumbull College with her husband, Gurbakhshash Singh, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Central Connecticut State University, and their son, Sahej Singh, our youngest Trumbullian! Email Surjit Chandhoke |
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Yaminay ChaudhriCritic, School of ArtYaminay is an artist and educator with a background in combined-media visual art, and architecture design. She is influenced by southern urban theory, situationist / socially engaged practice and the politics of low-res media. Yaminay’s art practice unpacks architectures of aspiration and the loss of the commons in the South Asian metropolis – particularly, Karachi. Her work moves across the personal and the collective, house and the city, using video, installation, sound, and neighborhood participation. She juxtaposes the aspirations of upwardly mobile families with worlding aspirations of the state, to make visible the disappearance of the commons. The heart of her work archives the commons as it disappears, creates new commons via engagement, and attempts to shift popular imaginaries of aspirational spaces. Yaminay has organized several experiments in collectivity and collaboration, starting with the cofounding of Tentative Collective in Karachi (2011-2017) and Karachi Beach Radio (2018- ongoing). She has been an Art Dubai Writing Fellow; and visiting assistant professor at the Rhode Island School of Design’s Interior Architecture Department. She currently teaches at the Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous art venues internationally, including Lahore Biennale 02, Lahore; Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Sharjah Art Foundation and Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah; AAN Gandhara Art Space, and Karachi Biennale, Karachi; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sarai and IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, New Delhi; and Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia. |
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Margaret ClarkJohn M. Musser Professor of Psychology; Former Head of Trumbull CollegeProfessor Margaret Clark, Ph.D. (margaret.clark@yale.edu) is the former Head of Trumbull College and a faculty member in the psychology department of Yale College and Yale Graduate School. Her research focuses on the nature of emotion, its social functions, and processes that characterize well (and poorly) functioning close relationships. She is president elect of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, an advisor to the Swiss National Science Foundation and Israel’s Bi-national science foundation, and a senior editor of Psychological Science. At Yale she teaches courses on emotions and relationships and welcomes undergraduates who wish to become involved in research in her lab. She also serves on a number of committees for the university and as the Graduate Vice President of Yale’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In Trumbull Margaret serves as a first year adviser for those students interested in psychology. Email Margaret Clark |
Robert ClarkBusiness |
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Paul ClearyAnna M. R. Lauder Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Senior Research Scientist in Public Health (Health Policy)Paul Cleary is the Dean of Public Health and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health. He is a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a distinguished fellow of the Association for Health Services Research. His research focuses on how to assess the quality of health care and how organizational and clinician characteristics affect the costs and quality of medical care. He is Principal Investigator of one of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and is Principal Investigator and Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has published more than 300 journal articles and book chapters describing his research. His hobbies include flying, golf, bike riding, and skiing. Email Paul Cleary |
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Skylar CobbettAssistant Director, Undergraduate AdmissionsSkylar Cobbett graduated from Yale in May with a BA in Classics. Skylar served as Co-President of the Yale College QuestBridge Scholars Network, worked as a Student Affairs Office Assistant in the Yale College Dean’s Office, and conducted research with the Yale Babylonian Collection. Email Skylar Cobbett |
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Martin CobernNuclear Physics RetiredMartin E. Cobern, ’74 Ph.D. (Nuclear physics) retired in 2014 after a long career in the oilfield services industry. His last positon was Vice President, Research & Development of APS Technologies, Inc. in Wallingford. He has been active in community activities, serving for over a decade on both the Cheshire Planning & Zoning Commission and Central Naugatuck Valley Regional Planning Commission, and chairing both. He served twice as President of Temple Beth David of Cheshire. He was Chairman of the Yale Graduate Student Alumni Association and a Governor of the Association of Yale Alumni, and is currently an Associate Fellow of Trumbull College. Since his retirement, he has expanded his volunteer activities to include Distressed Children & Infants International (DCI), the Cheshire Community Food Pantry, New Haven Reads and the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, and he serves on the Board of the New Haven Jewish Foundation. Retirement has given him more time to indulge in his favorite activities – travel and photography. |
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Ruth CoffeyYale Law SchoolRuth Coffey is a Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She is a criminal barrister and a door tenant at Red Lion Chambers in London. She was appointed Recorder (part-time judge in the criminal courts) in April 2018 and sits in the Crown Court on the Midland Circuit of England and Wales. Coffey was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2004 and practiced criminal law in London before moving to the U.S. in 2015. She was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before teaching at Harvard, Coffey was legal advisor on criminal law to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and previously a government prosecutor for the UK’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Before that, she practiced as a criminal barrister, prosecuting and defending in the courts in and around London. Coffey’s paper, “Fight, flight, freeze…or lie? Rethinking the principles of res gestae evidence in light of its revival,” was published in The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. |
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Christina CoffinYale PressEmail Christina Coffin |
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Uriel CohenJoseph Slifka CenterUri was appointed Executive Director of Slifka Center in July 2018 and begins on August 13. His appointment to that post follows a seven-year tenure in the same role at Queens College Hillel in the City University of New York. Prior to coming to Hillel, Uri held positions at the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan, Hillel International, and Perry Davis Associates, with almost two decades’ experience in fundraising, community relations, and leadership. Even in his new post, Uri continues to be involved with Jewish life at Queens College and works to raise awareness of the need for thriving Jewish life to serve the 13,000+ Jewish students currently enrolled at CUNY campuses. Uri has been been studying, practicing, and teaching leadership for the last 25 years, and has spent 17 years working in the Jewish community. He comes to Slifka with strong experience in fundraising, administration, management, community relations, and financial management. He stewarded Queens College Hillel to being named Hillel International’s Outstanding Campus in 2015, and looks forward to beginning his work at Slifka Center, together with the outstanding team that is now in place. Outside his time at Slifka, Uri is involved in his synagogue, is an Eagle Scout and active Cub Scout leader, loves camping and the outdoors, and is a big Mets fan. He lives in White Plains, New York with his wife Stacey and son Noah. Email Uriel Cohen |
Cecile CohenWorld Language Center |
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Dan CohnLaw A Trumbull alumnus (1975), Dan Cohn practices law in Boston, specializing in distressed businesses. His efforts on behalf of insolvent companies have saved thousands of jobs, generated many millions of dollars of economic value, and involved him in cutting-edge controversies of modern bankruptcy law. Dan’s interests include history, economics, grand strategy and squash. In addition, he’ll often be found reading a novel, listening to classical music, practicing yoga, or some combination of these. He has four children, the youngest a college sophomore. Dan has never been known to turn down an invitation to play squash, hear your thoughts on history or current affairs, discuss the practice of law, enjoy a glass of wine, or listen thoughtfully to what’s going on in your life. Email Dan Cohn |
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Adela CollinsDivinity SchoolAdela Y. Collins joined YDS in 2000 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for nine years. Prior to that, she was a professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Her first teaching position was at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. She is serving as president of the Society for New Testament Studies from July 2010 until August 2011. She was president of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2004–2005. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology by the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1994 and a Fellowship for University Teachers by the National Endowment for the Humanities for 1995–96. Her most recent books are King and Messiah as Son of God, coauthored with John J. Collins (2009), and Mark: A Commentary in the Hermeneia commentary series, published in 2007. Among her other publications are Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism; The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context; Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse; The Apocalypse (New Testament Message series); and The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation. She served as editor of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Monograph Series from 1985 to 1990. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Hermeneia commentary series and theJournal for the Study of the New TestamentBiblical Interpretation. Professor Yarbro Collins is a fellow of Trumbull College. B.A. Pomona College; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University. |
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John CollinsDivinity SchoolJohn Collins, a native of Ireland, was a professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago from 1991 until his arrival at YDS in 2000. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His books include The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography; Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview; the commentary on Daniel in the Hermeneia series; The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature; Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age; The Apocalyptic Imagination; Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora; Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM; Does the Bible Justify Violence?; Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture; Encounters with Biblical Theology; The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age; King and Messiah as Son of God (with Adela Yarbro Collins); and Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is coeditor of the three-volumeEncyclopedia of Apocalypticism, The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, andThe Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and has participated in the editing of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is general editor of the Yale Anchor Bible series. He has served as editor of the Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series, Dead Sea Discoveries, and Journal of Biblical Literature, and as president of both the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature. He holds an honorary D.Litt. from University College Dublin. |
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James ComerChild Study CenterJames Comer is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center, and has been a Yale medical faculty member since 1968. During these years, he has concentrated his career on promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. His efforts in support of healthy development of young people are known internationally. |
Yvonne C. CookeFormer Associate Head of College |
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Tobias CrawfordGeneral CounselToby joined the University’s Office of the General Counsel in 2018. Prior to his appointment at Yale, Toby was an Associate at Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP and clerked for the Honorable J. Garvan Murtha in the District of Vermont. Toby earned his B.A., cum laude, from Bowdoin College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. His work focuses primarily in the practice areas of Labor & Employment and Litigation. Toby serves on the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Resources for Students and Employees with Disabilities. Email Tobias Crawford |
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Laura CruickshankArchitect |
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Pat DallaiPat Dallai is a local (aka townie), born in New Haven and has lived in the area all her life. She has three children, six grandchildren and loves the arts, reading and gardening. She came to work at Yale in 1979, and is now here for 35 years, and always considered Trumbull College her home base. She began her career as the Master’s AA in Trumbull, then went on to administer the Residential College Seminar Program and moved from that position to become the Excecutive Assistant in the Council of Masters central office. After spending a good portion of her career working with student life programs and issues, she took a position as the Executive Director of the Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty–a change that she has enjoyed immensely. Pat feels privileged to have spent her career at Yale and the best part has been getting to know so many wonderful students, staff and faculty members. Email Pat Dallai |