Richard C. Levin '74 Ph.D.

Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics at Yale, was named the 22nd president of the University in 1993. He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1968, studied politics and philosophy at Oxford, and received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale in 1974. President Levin has led an administrative team that has restored the campus, invested heavily in strengthening science and engineering, and taken substantive steps toward making Yale a truly international institution. He also has consistently emphasized Yale's commitment to strong community ties with New Haven and has initiated several long-term programs for neighborhood revitalization, science and technology ventures, and the purchase of homes within the city by faculty and staff.

Murray Biggs

Murray Biggs, Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale, was born in England, brought up in South Africa, and returned to England as a Rhodes Scholar to take his second degree (in English) at Oxford, where he afterwards taught for two years. In addition to teaching at Wellesley, Berkeley, the University of Connecticut, and NYU, Professor Biggs was founder and the first Director of the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble before joining the Yale faculty in 1986. In 1991 he edited The Arts of Performance in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama and has directed about 40 plays, a third of them from the English Renaissance.

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and in African American Studies. Her research is driven by a central question: how can we make the democratic experience more meaningful for every citizen? Her work has been published in several scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is a leading expert in the field of voting rights and felon disenfranchisement. In 2004 she founded the Ujima Project to promote greater civic awareness among young people. She has been a fellow with the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute and received her Ph. D. in 2003 from Ohio State University.

Amy Chua

Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She came to Yale in 2001 after teaching at Duke and serving as a visiting professor at Columbia, Stanford, and NYU. Her expertise is in international business transactions, law and development, ethnic conflict, and globalization and the law. She is the author of the New York Times best seller World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability and most recently Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall. Professor Chua has an A.B. and a J.D. from Harvard University.

Marvin M. Chun

Marvin M. Chun is a Professor of Psychology with joint appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. He is also serving as the John B. Madden Master of Berkeley College. He is a cognitive neuroscientist who uses functional brain imaging to understand how to improve memory, attention, conscious perception, and decision-making. His research has been honored with a 2006 Troland Research Award from the US National Academy of Sciences and a 2002 American Psychological Association Early Career Award. His research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. In Yale College he teaches Introduction to Psychology, for which he received the Phi Beta Kappa William DeVane Award for Teaching and Scholarship.

Laura Cruikshank

Laura Cruickshank, the Yale University Planner, is responsible for directing campus planning and the architectural design of capital projects on the Yale University central campus. Her expertise includes campus master planning and programming, the construction of new facilities, and the restoration of historic buildings. In 20 years of private practice prior to moving to Yale, she managed a wide variety of architectural projects including municipal, institutional, and residential. She joined the staff of University Planning in 2002 and was appointed the University Planner in 2005. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her Master of Architecture degree from the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning. She holds architectural registration in Connecticut and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Society for College and University Planning.

Robert Grober

Robert Grober, Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Applied Physics, specializes in optical imaging and spectroscopy. Grober earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland-College Park. Grober joined the Yale faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor of applied physics and physics. He was named the Barton A. Weller Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Physics in 1999 and he serves on the Yale Committee on Athletics. Applied Physics professor and avid golfer, Robert Grober has developed an electronically enabled golf club which provides a musical response as the club moves.

James Hepokoski

James Hepokoski, Professor of Music History and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Music, is a specialist in symphonic and chamber music in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and received a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1979. After teaching at the Oberlin College Conservatory from 1978 to 1988 and the University of Minnesota School of Music from 1988 to 1999, he joined the Yale faculty in 1999. At Yale he teaches a wide variety of music courses, ranging from two semesters of a much praised survey of European music history (1600 to the present), to graduate and undergraduate seminars on Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, and many other composers and styles. Students have remarked on his "lively and entertaining lectures," which often illuminate central aesthetic and historical points embedded in the central classical repertory. An expert in musical style and its cultural implications, Professor Hepokoski has studied the music of Austrian and nearby nationalist cultures for decades, and he has also published widely on Italian opera. He has been the co-editor of a leading musicological journal, 19th Century Music, since 1992 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society. He is the author of four books and several dozen articles on a broad range of musical topics.

Diana E. E. Kleiner

Diana E. E. Kleiner is an art historian known worldwide for her expertise on the art and architecture of the ancient Romans. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Roman art in its political and social context including Roman Sculpture, the fundamental reference on the subject. She has done seminal work on Roman women (I, Clavdia I and II) and her latest book, Cleopatra and Rome, published by Harvard University Press, opens a new perspective on one of the most intriguing women who ever lived. The study reveals how the iconic episodes of Cleopatra's life, absorbed into a larger historical and political narrative, document a momentous cultural shift from the Hellenistic world to the Roman Empire. Professor Kleiner is also Principal Investigator for Open Yale Courses. Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the initiative provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet.

Professor Kleiner was Yale's Liaison for Faculty Programs at AllLearn from 2001 to 2006. She authored three online courses, including "eClavdia: Women in Ancient Rome," which she regularly teaches as a Yale College seminar. She has also created web portals for her two undergraduate lecture courses -- Roman Art and Roman Architecture -- which are among the most sophisticated at Yale in their use of digital technology and the online discussion board. From 1995 to 2003, Professor Kleiner was Yale's Deputy Provost for the Arts with responsibility for arts, divinity, and new media.

Linda Honan Pellico

Linda Honan Pellico has been an Assistant Professor in Nursing at Yale School of Nursing since 1989. Ms. Pellico obtained her nursing diploma from the Meriden-Wallingford Hospital School of Nursing, a B.S. in nursing from Southern Connecticut State University, her M.S.N. from Yale University School of Nursing and her PhD from the University of Connecticut. She developed a state wide public education program "Have Bones, Will Travel" which introduces elementary school children to human anatomy with an emphasis on health and safety. For this she received the Connecticut Teachers Association Salutes Award and the Seton Ivy Award from Yale University. She is recipient of the Annie W. Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching from the students of the Yale University School of Nursing.

Harry S. Stout

Harry S. Stout, Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Christianity, received his B.A., from Calvin College and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Kent State University. He is the author of several books, including Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War; The New England Soul, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism, a Pulitzer Prize nomination for biography and Critic's Award for History in 1991; Dictionary of Christianity in America (of which he was co-editor), which received the Book of the Year Award from Christianity Today in 1990. His most recent book, Upon the Alter of the Nation (Viking Press, 2007), has won four prizes. In 2003, he was awarded the Robert Cherry Award for Great Teaching.