Fellows of Jonathan Edwards
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Marian ChertowBio:Associate Professor of Foresty & Envrionmental Studies and of Management |
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Oswaldo Chinchilla MazariegosBio:Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos is an Associate Professor at Yale University, Department of Anthropology, and formerly professor at the University of San Carlos and curator at the Museo Popol Vuh, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala. His research focuses on Mesoamerican art, religion, and writing, and he has conducted extensive field research at various sites in Guatemala, focusing especially on the settlement patterns, urbanism, and sculptural art of the Pacific Coastal site of Cotzumalhuapa. In 2011, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on Cotzumalhuapa art and archaeology. His recent work on Mesoamerican religion and art has resulted in a series of innovative papers, and the book Imágenes de la Mitología Maya (2011), which examines mythological themes in Maya, in the light of a broad, comparative assessment of relevant sources that include the Popol Vuh and other narratives from all over Mesoamerica. In addition to numerous articles in major journals, he is the author of Cotzumalguapa, la Ciudad Arqueológica: El Baúl-Bilbao-El Castillo (2012), Guatemala, Corazón del Mundo Maya (1999); editor of Arqueología Subacuática: Amatitlán, Atitlán (2011); and coeditor of The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing (2001), and The Technology of Maya Civilization: Political Economy and Beyond in Lithic Studies (2011). |
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Dr. Roger ColtenBio:Dr. Roger Colten is the Senior Collections Manager for the Anthropology Division at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University and an archaeologist who specializes in the study of coastal and island sites, focusing on the analysis of vertebrate animal remains (bones). While his dissertation research focused on Native American adaptations to coastal environments in southern California, he has more recently analyzed museum collections from Europe and Cuba that are housed at the Peabody Museum. In addition to his museum collections research he has participated in archaeological field projects in California, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malta, Michigan, and Nevada. He has worked in several other museums including the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA and the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian. He would be happy to talk with students about the Peabody Museum, museum collections research, or archaeological field work. You can reach him at roger.colten@yale.edu. |
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Lynn CooleyBio:Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences |
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Helen CooperBio:Holcombe T. Greene Curator Emeritus of American Paintings and Sculpture at Yale University Art Gallery |
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Gwyneth CrowleyBio:Librarian for Economics, Psychology, and Statistics & Data Science at Yale University Library |
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Jonathan DachBio:Jonny Dach, JE ’08 JD ’13, is Governor Ned Lamont’s policy director and deputy chief of staff. Prior to joining the Lamont campaign and administration, he clerked for Judge Rowan Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals, worked to advance women’s legal rights for the U.S. Department of State, and served as the Obama-Biden administration’s equivalent of a concert roadie, traveling to cities across the country and around the world to staff events for the President and Vice President. He’s happy to have returned to America’s greatest small city—New Haven!—and looks forward to speaking with students considering careers in law, politics, or public service. |
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Justin DeLandBio:Senior Technical Director of Undergraduate Production in Yale College Dean’s Office |
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Robin DembroffBio:Assistant Professor of Philosophy |
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Michael DenningBio:William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of English |