Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
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Erik HarmsBio:Associate Professor of Anthropology |
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Theresa Fairbanks HarrisBio:Theresa Fairbanks Harris is the Senior Conservator, Works on Paper for the two Yale Art Museums. She has a BA from Yale College and was a student in Jonathan Edwards. She has a Masters in Science in Conservation from the University of Delaware Winterthur Conservation Program. Fairbanks Harris is an expert in paper history, art, and artist’s materials. She has researched, published, lectured and taught about paper for over 40 years. Her extensive employment experience in this discipline includes work as conservator and teacher in Conservation departments at Yale University and the Yale University Art Museums since 1982, the Smithsonian from 1981-1982, Harvard from 1980-1981, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale Rare Book Conservation Lab for Libraries from 1974-75. She has taught since 1983 in Yale University departments of: History of Art, Fine Arts and more recently for the Paleography and Music Departments. She lectures on paper and artist’s materials nationally and internationally. |
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Doug HausladenBio:Doug Hausladen is the Executive Director of the New Haven Parking Authority and has served previously as the Director of Transportation for the City of New Haven. He graduated from Davenport in 2004 with a degree in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. Doug comes to the public sector with a background in community organizing, issue based advocacy, and transportation activism with professional experiences in real estate management, entrepreneurship, and public health. He was twice-elected to the Board of Alders in New Haven representing the 7th Ward encompassing the Downtown and Medical Districts. Mayor Harp appointed Doug to his current position in 2014; he became the Acting Executive Director of the New Haven Parking Authority in 2015. In his present role he is a leader in New England in Complete Streets, Smart Parking, Mobile Payment, Active Transportation, and Sustainability. Doug grew up on the Kentucky side of Cincinnati, is a proud Kentucky Colonel, and is the volunteer Head Coach of the Yale Mens Club Water Polo team. |
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Caroline HendelBio:Caroline Hendel, JE ‘83, wife of John Wysolmerski, JE ‘82, and parent of Michael Wysolmerski, JE ‘12, is a Senior Associate General Counsel in the University’s Office of the General Counsel. She is interested in speaking with students who are considering careers in the law. Caroline graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986, clerked for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and worked for several years in a large Boston law firm before coming back to work at Yale. As a result, she has experience in a variety of legal practice areas. Her focus is on employment law and discrimination law, with particular emphasis on those practice areas in the field of higher education. She is always happy to discuss anything having to do with life at Yale and in JE. Caroline.hendel@yale.edu |
Rachel HerschmanBio:Yale University Library |
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Florian HillBio:Florian Hill is an entrepreneur and business psychologist with a master’s degree in psychology and economics from the University of London. Originally from Germany, he is known for his expedition adventures, undertaking first ascents in remote mountain regions. Notably, his ascent of the south face of Illimani earned him a spot on the 2011 Piolet d’Or shortlist for the most significant ascents. As CEO of HILLWIRED Ltd. & Co KG, an international agency for strategic communication, Florian’s research focuses on the acceptance of artificial intelligence in the business context. He also owns a boutique consultancy firm specializing in economic affairs between Germany and the United States and serves as a goodwill ambassador for the German State of Hesse. He completed the Aspen Leadership Program and executive education at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. |
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Kathryn HillBio:I study ancient Mesopotamia and hold a joint appointment in Humanities and in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, where I serve as DUS. I’m also a proud Connecticut local! Supervisor of World Languages |
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Adina HoffmanBio:Essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes of the lives and afterlives of people, movies, buildings, books, and certain city streets. Her books include My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, and Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. With Peter Cole, she is also the author of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which won the American Library Association’s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Windham Campbell prize, she teaches a class on Writing from the Archive in the Humanities Program each spring. Adina.hoffman@yale.edu |
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Emily HorningBio:Emily Horning, Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Yale Library, enjoys speaking with students about career paths for history and humanities majors. By training she is a historian of early modern Europe; her work in graduate school concerned the transition from manuscript to print culture in France and England. Emily is also the curator of the Yale Library’s Curtis Mountaineering Collection, and while not strictly speaking a mountaineer, she is an enthusiastic hiker, having climbed in North, Central and South America, Europe, the Arctic, eastern and southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Over lunch in JE she would be delighted to talk about foreign and domestic travel, so-called “Arc TV” (those finely-crafted television serials like Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos and especially, especially The Wire), literature and movies of all kinds, and volunteering in New Haven. She hails from southern California, is a fan of UCLA Basketball and the Lakers and would be happy to commiserate about New England weather. emily.horning@yale.edu |
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Jonathon (Joe) HowardBio:Jonathon (Joe) Howard is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and a Professor of Physics at Yale University. He is best known for his research on motor proteins and the cytoskeleton, and the development of techniques for observing and manipulating individual biological molecules. Brought up in Australia, where he studied at the Australian National University, he has had a distinguished career in the United States, where he was a professor at the University of Washington Medical School in Seattle, and in Germany, where he was a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. In 2013 he returned to the United States where he enjoys teaching, writing and new research projects on cell motility and neuronal morphology. jonathon.howard@yale.edu |