Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
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Stan TamarkinBio:Stan Tamarkin is a retired business man. For thirty-five years he was a dealer and an auctioneer specializing in new and collectible Leica cameras with showrooms in New Haven and New York. He has a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale and taught briefly at Yale, Connecticut College, and the University of Rhode Island. With an undergraduate degree and a M.A. in English literature, he came to Yale to study Twain and Faulkner but during his time in American studies he made a transition from literature to history and became an historian specializing in American social history with special interests in labor, ethnicity, the American left, and psychoanalysis, the latter a result of studying at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. His current interests are American political history, the Civil War, British political history after 1900, and the history of psychoanalysis. He is an avid, but poor, golfer, and a devoted photographer. He lives in Woodbridge with his wife, Jane, an actress and director. |
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Hong TangBio:Hong Tang is the Llewellyn West Jones, Jr. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics at Yale University. His research utilizes integrated photonic circuits to study photon-photon, photon-mechanics and photon-spin interactions. He joined Yale faculty in 2006. At Yale his group specializes in nanofabrication and precision measurement, spanning the fields of spintronics, nanophotonics and optomechanics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering and the Arthur Greer Award. He currently serves as the director of graduate studies in the department of electrical engineering. |
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Donald TerryBio:Former General Manager of Multilateral Investment Fund at Inter-American Development Bank Contact Donald at donaldfterry@gmail.com |
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David T. TotmanBio:David T. Totman,’61, is a lawyer who would be interested in sharing his experiences and thoughts concerning careers in the law—domestic and/or international. He says that, “The whole scene has changed significantly since I started out and students need to be current in their decision making.” dttotman@yahoo.com |
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Clyde TuggleBio:Clyde C. Tuggle is a Global Public Affairs and Communications Adviser to the Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company.
Mr. Tuggle joined the Company in 1989 and has served in many capacities, including the office of the Chairman, the Central European Division office and as the president of the Russia, Ukraine & Belarus Business Unit. From 2009 to 2017, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs and Communications, a position reporting directly to the Chairman, Board of Directors, and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Tuggle serves on the boards of directors of the Georgia Power Company and Oxford Industries, Inc.
Mr. Tuggle is President of the Atlanta Rotary Club. He is a trustee of the Georgia Research Alliance, and serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse, Georgia Historical Society, the U.S. Russia Business Council and is chairman of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Goizueta Business School Advisory Board, the Yale University International Advisory Board, and the Leadership Council of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. In 2013, Mr. Tuggle was elected a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.
Mr. Tuggle holds a bachelor’s degree in German Studies and Economics from Hamilton College and a Master of Divinity from Yale University. He studied at the Ludwig-Maximillian Universität in Munich, Germany, and completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School. |
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Meg UrryBio:Meg Urry is Professor (and former Chair) of Physics and Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. When not observing black holes and galaxies with the world's best ground-based and space-based telescopes (go Hubble!), or advising and teaching students and postdocs, she works to increase the participation of women and minorities in science. She also pioneered innovative, interactive teaching techniques in intro physics and started the Physics Study Hall (for several years in the Jonathan Edwards dining hall, thanks to the generosity of Master Laurans!). The favorite part of her job is talking to students. meg.urry@yale.edu |
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Frank van den BoschBio:Professor of Astronomy |
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Kyle VanderlickBio:Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering |
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Karen von KunesBio:Karen von Kunes, a faculty member in the Slavic Department, is in charge of all levels of Czech language teaching, and courses in English on Milos Forman’s films and Milan Kundera’s novels. Her Yale Summer Session program “Prague Film and Fiction in Kafka’s Spirit” attracts students not only from JE and other Yale residential colleges but also from Yale-NUS (and even Oxford, Harvard, and Brown) and includes an introduction to Holocaust, Prague history and culture, basics of filmmaking and travels across Central Europe (former Austria-Hungary). Dr. von Kunes enjoys talking with students about languages, literature, cultures, creative writing, screenwriting, and current trends in global immigration, which is one of the themes of her novel Among the Sinners. In addition, she has developed a keen interest in Singaporean culture, literature and economy during her teaching at Yale-NUS in 2015, and would enjoy having lunch with students from Singapore and other parts of Asia. karen.vonkunes@yale.edu |
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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 |