Fellows of Jonathan Edwards

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	Karen von Kunes Bio: 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
	Janna Wagner Bio: 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
	Scott Wallace-Juedes Bio: Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid scott.wallace-juedes@yale.edu
	Wendell Wallace-Juedes Bio: Dr. Wallace-Juedes was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Xavier University of Louisiana. After graduating he conducted research developing industrial paints. Then became a certified educator earning a Master’s in Curriculum, Instruction & Technology. Dr. Wallace-Juedes then went on to earn his DPM degree to become a reconstructive foot and ankle surgeon. When his husband was offered the position of Director of Financial Aid at Yale he decided to enter the world of higher ed, educating high school students about the accessibility of Yale.
	Paul Walsh Bio: 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
	John Harley Warner Bio: 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
	Barbara Watts Bio: Associate Director of Admissions at School of Medicine barbara.watts@yale.edu
	Jonathan Weinberg, Ph. D. Bio: Jonathan Weinberg, Ph.D. (Yale College BA, 1978) is a painter, art historian and curator. He is Curator of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. He has taught in Yale's History of Art Department and in its Art School for an aggregate of over twenty years. He is the author of several books including Pier Groups: Art and Sex Along the New York Waterfront and Ambition and Love in American Art. His writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Forum, The Yale Journal of Criticism and in numerous museum catalogs. In 2019 he was the lead curator of the award winning touring exhibition, Art After Stonewall 1969-89. He is the curator of the 2023-24 touring exhibition, Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak. He was the recipient of many fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship and he was the artist-in-residence at the Getty Research Center in 2002-3. In 2022 an exhibition of his GENESIS window paintings and prints was on view at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven.
	Zach Wendling Bio: Zach Wendling is the Research Director for the 2026 Environmental Performance Index at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, where he did his post-doctoral training. Before returning to Yale, he was a Senior Research Associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and the project manager for the Global Commons Stewardship Index at the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington, with major fields in policy analysis and environmental policy. Before academia, he was an environmental scientist specializing in surface water ecosystem restoration. In his free time, he enjoys opera, museums, and meeting new 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.
	Ted Whitten Bio: 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!