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Martin NguyenDr. Martin Nguyen is Professor of Islamic Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. His work revolves around Muslim theology, ethics, spirituality, Qur’anic studies, and the intersection of race and religion. Among his books is Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (2019), which presents a contemporary theology rooted in the religious imagination. Alongside his publications, he is facilitating several scholarly initiatives, including the “Constructive Muslim Thought and Engaged Scholarship” seminar with the American Academy of Religion and the “Islamic Moral Theology in Conversation with Future” project supported by the John Templeton Foundation. More about Prof. Nguyen’s work can be found at here. Email Martin Nguyen |
Kristen NwanyanwuOpthamology and Visual ScienceDr. Kristen Nwanyanwu graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan. Her degrees in African-American Studies and Biochemistry became the foundation for her career as a health disparities researcher. At the University of Pennsylvania, she earned her medical degree and MBA from the Wharton School. She is a board-certified ophthalmologist and a practicing vitreoretinal surgeon. She completed residency at the University of Michigan and vitreoretinal surgery fellowship at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary at the University of Illinois at Chicago. After joining the Yale faculty, she was selected for the YCCI Junior Faculty Scholars Program through which she completed her Master of Health Science. She is currently the PI for the NIH-funded Sight-Saving Engagement and Evaluation in New Haven (SEEN) Program, a multi-method approach to identifying and addressing health disparities in diabetic retinopathy. She has lectured nationally on health disparities, access to care, and the surgical management of diabetic retinopathy. Email Kristen Nwanyanwu |
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Michael O'BrienSchool of MedicineEmail Michael O'Brien |
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Kevin O'ConnorSchool of MedicineDr. Kevin C. O’Connor is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Yale University. He earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Tufts Medical School. He took his post-doctoral training in Immunology at Harvard where he also spent several years as an Assistant Professor. His investigative interests are in human translational neuroimmunology, with specific focus on defining the mechanisms by which B-cells affect tissue damage in autoimmunity. To this end, his group is engaged in understanding how B-cell subsets initiate and sustain autoimmunity. His team’s accomplishments include refining the role of Epstein-Barr virus in the multiple sclerosis (MS) brain and further defining the role of autoantibodies in children and adults with MS. They recently identified a network of B-cells that populate the MS central nervous system by trafficking through the cervical lymph nodes. Their current efforts include defining the immunopathology of myasthenia gravis (MG). His group demonstrated that MG antigen-specific T-cells belong to the pro-inflammatory Th17 subset and determined that MG patients harbor defects in B-cell tolerance. Their current focus is on describing the mechanisms of autoantibody production in MG, using high-throughput sequencing, toward the aim of improving therapeutic approaches. Email Kevin O'Connor |
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Vanessa OgleHistoryI am a historian of global Europe from the 18th century to the present, focusing on the history of capitalism, economic history, and empire in global and comparative perspective. While my particular interests lie in Western Europe (Britain, France, Germany, mostly), I conceive of Europe broadly and seek to place European history in the context of its interactions with the wider world. The sprawling nature of capitalism and the world economy require an engagement with non-European history. Similarly, Europe’s imperial and colonial past beyond the geographic boundaries of the continent is an important part of that history. My first book, The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950, explored the history of globalization, tracing changing political, economic, and legal regimes of time during an area of intensified interactions between Europe and other world regions. The book follows time in its different manifestations as social and economic clock time and calendar time from Germany, France, and Britain, to British India, the colonial world broadly, the late Ottoman Levant and Egypt, and the League of Nations. I consider this book a reflection on how to conceptualize the movement of goods, people, and ideas in global and international perspective. I published an article related to the book in The American Historical Review in 2013.
I am currently completing a project titled Archipelago Capitalism: A History of the Offshore World, 1920s-1980s. The book reopens the history of twentieth-century political economy and capitialism (in its free-market, neoliberal variety in particular) in Europe and beyond, by pointing to an economic, legal, and political regime of smaller, often enclave-like territories and spaces that thrived on the sidelines of a world otherwise increasingly dominated by nation-states: tax havens, offshore finance, flags of convenience, and free trade zones. At the same time, the book provides the first archivally-based account of how ‘offshore’ came into existence as a sophisticated, far-flung system often beyond the reach of national regulators and governments. The book thus seeks to shed light on the origins of tax avoidance and evasion on a global scale, one of the most pressing current problems with profound implications for the rise of inequality throughout the twentieth century. The project uses a multi-archival approach that combines documents from over 30 national archives, central banks, multilateral institutions, private banks, and oral history interviews in locations such as Australia, Bahamas, Britain, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, Guernsey, Ireland, Jersey, Luxembourg, Panama, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US. A pilot article based off this work was published in The American Historical Review in December 2017, another one in Past and Present in 2020.
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Michelle Pagliaro-HaywoodChiropractic PhysicianChiropractic Physician Exercise Strength and Conditioning Specialist Certified Chiropractic Sports Medicine Specialist Adjunct Clinical Professor, University of Bridgeport |
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Priya PandaElectrical EngineeringPriya’s research interests lie in Neuromorphic Computing: spanning energy-efficient design methodologies for deep learning networks, novel supervised/unsupervised learning algorithms for spiking neural networks and developing neural architectures for new computing scenarios (such as lifelong learning, generative models, stochastic networks, adversarial attacks etc.). Her goal is to empower energy-aware and energy-efficient machine intelligence through algorithm-hardware co-design while being secure to adversarial scenarios and catering to the resource constraints of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Email Priya Panda |
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Maria Eugenia Paneroschool of MedicineEmail Maria Eugenia Panero |
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Kenneth PankoHigher Education TechnologyHigher education technology leader with a focus on academic innovation and service excellence. Provides vision and strategic direction on the transformative role technology plays in rethinking undergraduate and graduate education for the 21st century. Champions diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. |
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Michael PastorDirector of the James Tricarico Jr. Institute for the Business of Law and In-House Counsel; Co-Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology; New York Law SchoolMichael Pastor is the Director of the James Tricarico Jr. Institute for the Business of Law and In-House Counsel and Co-Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. He is also a Professor from Practice at the school and faculty advisor to the Latino Law Students Association, the Privacy Law Association, and the Employment and Labor Law Students Association. Pastor previously served as the General Counsel of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (“DoITT”) and the New York City Cyber Command. In those roles, he handled and oversaw all technology law matters for New York City, including those related to cybersecurity and technology procurement. He was also the Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs and Franchises at DoITT, where he acted as the City’s lead executive on the City’s relationships with major telecommunications providers, including overseeing the LinkNYC program and initiatives tied to the roll-out of 5G wireless networks in the City. Prior to these roles, Pastor spent nearly ten years in senior roles at the New York City Law Department in the Legal Counsel Division, where he advised on local legislation and regulations, and the Appeals Division, where he argued appeals in State and federal courts in New York. In the latter role, he successfully litigated before the New York Court of Appeals in defense of the City’s land use approvals for the development and modernization of the New York University campus in Greenwich Village. Pastor also served as the First Deputy Criminal Justice Coordinator for New York City in the Office of the Mayor. He began his legal practice as a litigation associate at the international law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, after concluding a law clerkship in federal district court in Maryland. Pastor serves on the Board of Directors of the Hudson River Park Trust, Start Small Think Big, and the Judge Alexander Williams Jr. Center for Education, Justice, and Ethics at the University of Maryland. He is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association, where he serves on the Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the Committee on Technology. Pastor holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Yale University. Email Michael Pastor |
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Barbara PearceReal Estate/LawBarbara Pearce joined Connecticut Hospice in January 2019 as interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Ms. Pearce is currently CEO of Pearce Real Estate and is taking a sabbatical from Pearce Real Estate to devote her time to Connecticut Hospice. She holds JD and MBA degrees, and practiced mergers and acquisitions law before joining Pearce Real Estate, assuming the Presidency in 1986. Ms. Pearce has been actively involved as a community leader in Connecticut and Greater New Haven, chairing many state and local boards, including Hospital of Saint Raphael, CBIA, Long Wharf Theatre; United Way of Greater New Haven; the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven; Artspace; and Saint Martin de Porres Academy. Additionally, she was the founder of the Women Organizing Women Political Action Committee. |
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James PerlottoYale College graduate, class of 1978 (Ezra Stiles!), Fellow in Trumbull since 1988, including Resident Fellow/ Executive Fellow 1990 - 1993. Graduate of Boston University School of Medicine 1982, and University of Minnesota residency in Family Medicine and Community Health. After a three year service in the National Health Service Corps, returned to Yale as the Chief of Student Medicine and Athletic Medicine at Yale Health Services for 25 years, overseeing the care of all of Yale’s students. Special areas include GLBTQ health, HIV/ AIDS care , and Sports Medicine. Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and member of the Yale Med Admissions Committee for over 28 years now. Also currently on the Board of Advisers of the Yale Drama School’s Summer Cabaret. Retired from Yale in 2013 but still love being a Fellow of Trumbull. Also teaching college courses and career advising at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida part time. Married to Tom Masse, former Deputy Dean of Yale School of Music and former Associate Provost for the Arts at Yale; and now Dean of the School of Music at Stetson University. We have a lively West Highland White Terrier named “Stella”. Enjoy travel, art history, painting and photography, music, literature and Baseball ! |
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John PersingEmeritus SurgeryJohn A. Persing is a doubly Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and Neurological Surgeon. He is passionate about improving the quality of life of children born with craniofacial defects and individuals affected by cancer, trauma, deformities, and aesthetic concerns. He believes that all people deserve a chance at a better life, regardless of economic and world boundaries. Dr. Persing earned his medical degree from the University of Vermont in 1974. He has been President of the Plastic Surgery Foundation, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Association of Academic Chairmen of Plastic Surgery, the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgeons, among others, and served as Chair of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is past President of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, and received the Clinician of the Year Award in 2010, as well as the James Barrett Brown award for the best journal article published in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery in 2015. Dr. Persing has a focus on improving the quality of patients’ lives regardless of whether this is a cosmetic or reconstructive concern. His clinical interests are craniofacial deformities, vascular malformations, and cosmetic surgery of the face and body. Connecticut Magazine named Dr. Persing among the best in the state in its annual “Top Doctors” issue in the 2016 edition, along with America’s Best Doctors (Castle-Connolly) and Who’s Who in Medicine. |
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Ruzica PiskacComputer ScienceRuzica Piskac is an assistant professor (tenure-track) at Yale, Computer Science Department. Her research interests span the areas of programming languages, software verification, automated reasoning, and code synthesis. A common thread in Ruzica’s research is improving software reliability and trustworthiness using formal techniques. |
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Thomas PoggePhilosophyThomas Winfried Menko Pogge (/ˈpɒɡi/; born 13 August 1953) is a German philosopher and is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. In addition to his Yale appointment, he is the Research Director of the Centre for the Study of the Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire’s Centre for Professional Ethics. Pogge is also an editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. |
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Katerina PolitiCancer CenterKaterina Politi studied Biology at the University of Pavia in Italy. She then moved to New York, where she obtained her PhD in Genetics and Development working with Argiris Efstratiadis at Columbia University. Following graduate school, she joined Harold Varmus’s lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and began her work on the molecular basis of lung cancer. She continues this work at Yale as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and the Yale Cancer Center. |
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Frederick PolnerAttorney, Former Associate Head of CollegeAttorney Frederick Polner, J.D. is the former Associate Master of Trumbull College. He is an attorney specializing in communications law, academic publishing, internet, and copyright issues. He is a sailor and skier, loves jazz and plays the drums. In Trumbull Frederick serves as a first year adviser for some of the students interested in the legal field. Email Frederick Polner |
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Mary Jane PotterBusiness in AfricaInnovare Advisors, LLC is an alternative investment advisory and management firm financing medium scale agricultural value chain companies, starting in emerging markets including Africa. Innovare finances companies commercially to increase the food supplies in Africa and beyond, and economic development impact to the communities they serve. |
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Sara PowellBeinecke Rare Book & Manuscript LibrarySara Powell is Research Librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, where she supervises the provision of reference services and serves as curatorial liaison to Beinecke research fellows. Sara holds an MS in Library & Information Science (Archives Management) from Simmons University and an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of York. She has previously worked at Swarthmore College Libraries and the MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections. Email Sara Powell |
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Leslie PowellLeslie Powell is Associate Director of International Security Studies at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Prior to this, she was with the Yale Office of International Affairs, the Yale World Fellows Program, and Eurasia Group. Leslie has a PhD in Political Science and an undergraduate degree in Russian Studies. Email Leslie Powell |