Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
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Janna WagnerBio:Janna Wagner is a ‘95 graduate of Yale (JE). She taught in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education before returning to New Haven to co-found All Our Kin, a Connecticut non-profit devoted to expanding access to high-quality early education for all children. She also co-teaches an Ed Studies course called “Child Care, Society and Social Policy.” When not running AOK, Janna volunteers on non-profit boards including “The Group with No Name”, a social, civic organization that she and her friends founded to make New Haven a more fun place to live and to turn residents into citizens, and U.S. Grant, a summer program for New Haven students run by Yalies. She is excited to meet with students who want to discuss social entrepreneurship, founding a non-profit, teaching, educational equity, and New Haven. Contact Janna at janna@allourkin.org |
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Scott Wallace-JuedesBio:Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid |
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Wendell Wallace-JuedesBio:Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions |
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Paul WalshBio:Paul Walsh is Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in Yale’s School of Drama. He has worked in theaters across the country including nine years as senior dramaturg at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. His translations of plays by Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg have been produced professionally in numerous theaters including Yale Rep. Walsh was artistic director of the New Harmony Project, a new play development program in southern Indiana, from 2006 to 2012 and has taught at Southern Methodist University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. paul.walsh@yale.edu |
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John Harley WarnerBio:John Harley Warner is an historian of medicine, public health, and science. His work focuses on health and healing cultures in America from the late-eighteenth century through the present, with particular attention to professional identity, the visual cultures of medicine, and transnational comparison. At Yale he is Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor of History and of American Studies, and Chair of the History of Medicine department at the Yale Medical School. He teaches undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and has been Director of Undergraduate Studies for the major in HSHM (History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health). Undergraduate courses include “Media and Medicine in Modern America.” john.warner@yale.edu |
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Barbara WattsBio:Associate Director of Admissions at School of Medicine |
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Jonathan Weinberg, Ph. D.Bio:Jonathan Weinberg, Ph. D. (BA, Yale ’78) is a painter and art historian. He is currently a Visiting Critic at the Yale Art School. He is the author of Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art; Ambition and Love in American Art; and Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley and the First-American Avant-Garde. He has taught at Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design, and at Yale. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and he has been an artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Center and at the Addison Museum of American Art. jonathan.weinberg@yale.edu |
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Harold Welch, Jr.Bio:Harold Welch, Jr. (Harry) was born in New Haven, CT in 1928. He attended Foote School, Groton School and graduated in Yale’s largest class, 1950. He had many jobs: in banking, the U.S. Government, The Edward Malley Co. (New Haven) brokerage and finally as President of Yale New Haven Medical Center, Inc. He was active in local endeavors: The South Central Connecticut regional Water Authority, Yale new Haven Hospital and served as President of the New Haven Arts Council. He was recruited to J.E during the reign of Beekman Cannon. J.E. thought that they were getting a person of stature in the Arts, though Harry tried to disabuse them of this idea. He is currently a resident of Vermont. |
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Zach WendlingBio:Zach Wendling is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, a joint venture of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Law School. An interdisciplinary scholar, Zach’s main project is the Environmental Performance Index, a global scorecard of 180 countries: https://epi.yale.edu. His other research interests are climate and energy policy and policy analysis. Before academia, he was an environmental scientist specializing in surface water ecosystem restoration. Zach joined JE as a Fellow in Fall 2019, and in his free time he enjoys opera, museums, and asking people if he can pet their dogs. He’s happy to chat with students, and you can find him in Kroon Hall, at Fellows’ dinners, or email him at zach.wendling@yale.edu. |
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Ted WhittenBio:Ted Whitten is an architect and writer based in New Haven and an alumnus of the School of Architecture. He is very happy to meet students to talk about careers in creative fields—or anything else! |