Twenty-two of Yale's senior faculty members, all renowned in their respective fields, have attained emeritus status this past year. They are:
Harry B. Adams joined the University in 1956 as associate director of field work at the Divinity School. He was named associate professor of pastoral theology in 1960, professor of pastoral theology in 1976 and the Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Nurture in 1999. He has held several administrative posts, including associate dean of the Divinity School and acting director of the Institute of Sacred Music. In 1986, Adams became the fourth chaplain in the University's history, a position he held until 1992. He was master of Trumbull College in 1987-97 and master of Saybrook College in 1998-99. Adams has written several books for the Christian Board of Publication, including "Preaching: The Burden and the Joy," "What Jesus Asks" and "The Bible Message." A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale College, Adams received his B.A. in 1947and a B.D. from the Divinity School in 1951.
Truett Allison, an expert on visual neurophysiology and cognitive neuroscience, has conducted research in the following areas: the localization of function in the human brain; the neurophysiology of the human and monkey somatosensory system; the evolution of sleep; the location and functional characteristics of human cortex within the mesial wall; and visual object recognition. After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1962, Allison was appointed assistant professor in 1966, then associate and full professor in 1970 and 1980, respectively. Since 1965, he has held concurrent appointments at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center. Allison served on the board of editors of Sleep Reviews, on the Neuropsychology Research Review Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health and as consulting editor of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. He has also served on peer review panels for funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency.
David Apter is an international scholar who has written with distinction about Latin America, Europe, China and Japan. His prize-winning contributions to social and political theory include his seminal work "The Politics of Modernization," published in 1965, which set the agenda for an entire generation in the study of comparative democratization. Many of Apter's books have been reprinted numerous times and translated into various languages. As a testament to his works' enduring quality, his first book, "The Gold Coast in Transition," published in 1955 and reprinted several times as "Ghana in Transition," will soon be republished as "Ghana in Transition in 2000." Apter served as director of the Division of Social Sciences in 1978-82, chair of the Department of Sociology in 1997-99 and chair of the Council on African Studies in 1995-99. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Apter joined the Yale faculty in 1969.
A fourth generation Yale graduate, Dick Barker received his B.E., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. A faculty member at Yale since 1952, Barker's research has spanned a wide range of subjects in several areas of solid-state science and technology. He founded the lauded Yale Center for Microelectronic Materials and Structures and has directed it since 1984. His numerous awards include most recently a Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium Excellence Award for Mentorship in 1998 and a Millennium Medal at the International Magnetics 2000 Conference in April of this year. A mentor to scores of graduate students, many of whom are now in universities or in leadership positions in companies around the world, Barker is also a respected undergraduate teacher who was awarded the Yale College Faculty Prize for Distinguished Teaching in 1986. Barker received the Award for Meritorious Service from the Yale Science and Engineering Association in 1994.
The path to becoming an art historian was not a straightforward one for Richard Barnhart. Originally trained as a studio artist, Barnhart studied Mandarin Chinese during his military service, received his B.A. in Chinese language and literature, then earned his doctorate in the art history of China and Japan. Barnhart has been a faculty member at Yale since 1967, except for a five-year period at Princeton between 1973-79. Curator for nine major exhibitions, Barnhart was honored in 1994 by the College Art Association for his exhibition and catalogue "The Painters of the Great Ming." He received the R.R. Hawkins Award for Best Book of 1997 from the Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Division for "Three Thousand Years of Chinese Paintings," one of his many publications. Barnhart served as chair of the Department of the History of Art in 1988-90 and as chair of the Archives of Asian Art since 1984.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1954, Henry W. Broude has combined his academic work with major administrative appointments in the offices of the provost and the president. He served as Director of Academic Planning in 1969-74, coordinating the programmatic needs of the University's academic departments and schools with the financial resources expected through fundraising efforts. At the same time, he assisted President Kingman Brewster with a range of issues including University governance, student activities and faculty development. As adviser to the president from 1978 to 1992, Broude had similar and expanded responsibilities with Presidents A. Bartlett Giamatti and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. An expert on American and economic history, Broude is the author of "Steel and the National Interest." He has been director of graduate studies in the Economic History Program, and has served on the Graduate School Social Science Degree Committee and the Yale College Committee on Teaching and Learning.
A native of Japan, Chie Chao became a member of the Yale faculty in 1960 as an instructor of Japanese. During her 40 years at the University, she went on to take charge of the first three years of Japanese courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, training all new lectors and bearing major responsibility for the intensive drill sessions, examinations and preparation of materials. Chao's publications include the drill books, teacher's handbooks and standard texts for "Naganuma Readers"; "New Japan"; the drill workbook for "Spoken Japanese"; "How to Read Japanese"; the Japanese chapter of "World Guide Book" and "Surasura." Her translations include "Chinese Language in Russian Literature," "Yale Tour Guide" and numerous medical documents for the Yale School of Medicine. Chao is a member of the Association of Teachers of Japanese and the Association of Asian Studies.
One of the world's most prominent scholars of the Old Testament, Brevard Childs joined the Yale faculty in 1958 as assistant professor at the Divinity School. He was made associate professor in 1961, then full professor in 1966. In 1992, he was named Sterling Professor of Divinity. With interests in both Old Testament theology and Judaica, Childs has written and lectured widely on interpretation and criticism of the Old Testament. His books include "Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments" and "The Book of Exodus: A Commentary." Childs' numerous honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship at the Hebrew University and fellowships with the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His honorary degrees include a D.D. from the University of Aberdeen and another from the University of Glasgow. In 1994, Childs was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Thomas Cole's talents as a linguist were observed early in his career at Harvard, where other freshmen gifted at Latin or Greek knew him to be skilled in both languages. When he joined Yale's classics department in 1964, Cole was alone among his colleagues to have regularly taught poetry, metrics, rhetoric, philosophy and historiography on both the Greek and Latin side. World-renowned for his range, concise argumentation and originality of scholarship, Cole is the author of such seminal works as "Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology," "Pindar's Feasts," "Epiploke" and "The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece." Invited to speak at universities around the world, Cole has also presented lectures at the annual meetings of the Modern Language Association. He served as visiting professor at the University of Urbino, Italy, in 1988, and has been a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Philology since 1993.
Kai Erikson has studied the effects of disasters on human communities for over 20 years. A faculty member at Yale since 1966, he is the author of numerous works, including "Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance," which won the MacIver Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and "Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood," which won the Sorokin Award from the ASA. A mentor to generations of undergraduate and graduate students, Erikson was awarded the Harwood F. Byrnes-Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize at Yale College in 1996. Erikson has served as chair of the Department of Sociology and of the American Studies Program, editor for a decade of The Yale Review, master of Trumbull College, chair of the Council of Masters, and president of the American Sociological Association and of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
One of the world's foremost scholars of Italian Renaissance art, Creighton Gilbert has been a faculty member at Yale since 1981. The author of hundreds of articles and more than a dozen books on major artistic figures such as Caravaggio, Piero della Francesca and Michelangelo, Gilbert received the Mather Award for Art Criticism from the College of Art Association in 1964. That same year, he was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1980, Gilbert was appointed editor of Art Bulletin, the pre-eminent American journal in art history. He went on to serve as editor-in-chief until 1985, longer than any other editor since World War II. Gilbert has also served as visiting professor at the University of Jerusalem and the University of Leiden, the Netherlands; the Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at Williams College and a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Rome.
One of the most respected scholars in the field of 19th-century Russian prose, Robert Jackson joined the faculty of Yale in 1954. When he began his studies in the early 1940s, he was one of the first American scholars of Russian literature. Since then, he has made important contributions to the study of the "classics" of Russian literature, namely the writings of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov and above all Dostoevsky. Jackson has been president, founder or co-founder of The North American Dostoevsky Society, the International Dostoevsky Society, the North American Chekhov Society, the International Chekhov Society and the Vyacheslav Invanov Convivium. For the past two decades, he has served as director of the Yale Conferences in Slavic Literatures and Culture, organizing 13 symposia and conferences dedicated to major Russian writers. In 1994, Jackson became the first Western scholar in the humanities to be awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Moscow State University.
Ernest Kohorn first came to Yale as an instructor in 1965. After developing the first ultrasound unit for obstetrics and gynecology in England, he returned to Yale to set up the first obstetric ultrasound unit in New England. In 1970 Kohorn established what is now the Yale Center for Trophoblastic Disease, and was one of the first gynecologists to use chemotherapy in the management of ovarian cancer. In 1973 Kohorn became one of the first recipients of the special accreditation for competence in gynecologic oncology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in 1975 he was appointed full professor. His other clinical interests include female urinary incontinence and pelvic floor defects, and also the surgery of the obese patient. Kohorn has served as president of the American Urogynecologic Society, the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons, the New England Association of Gynecologic Oncologists and the New Haven Obstetric Society. Kohorn was awarded the Residents Teaching Prize in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on five occasions.
Molecular geneticist Peter Lengyel joined the faculty of Yale in 1965 as an associate professor. He was appointed full professor in 1969 and served as director of graduate studies of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and acting director of the Division of Biological Sciences. Lengyel's work on the control of protein synthesis focused on the genetics and biochemistry of the action of interferons, the secreted proteins of vertebrates that have antiviral, cell growth regulatory and immunomodulatory activities. He is the author of numerous articles and the books "Ribosomes" and "Growth Inhibitory and Cytotoxic Polypeptides." A member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, and the Hungarian Academy of Science, Lengyel has served in an editorial capacity for Biochemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, Journal of Cell Biology, and Cancer Research.
A member of the Yale faculty since 1972, Edwin McClellan is noted for his translations of major Japanese works, including the novels "Kokoro" and "Grass on the Wayside" by Natsume Soseki. His translation of the novel "A Dark Night's Passing" by Naoya Shiga was awarded the Japan Translation Prize, and his interpretation of Eiji Yoshikawa's memoir "Fragments of a Past" won the Noma Translation Prize. His other works include "Two Japanese Novelists: Soseki and Toson" and "Woman in the Crested Kimono," which was named a 1985 "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review. McClellan has been invited as "a guest of the nation" by Japan's Foreign Ministry, and in 1998 the Japanese government awarded him its Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. McClellan's other honors include the 1994 Kikuchi Kan Prize and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977.
David Pease came to Yale in 1983 to serve as dean of the School of Art, a post he held for 13 years. Since 1997, he has been professor and director of graduate studies of the School of Art's Department of Painting/Printmaking. During his career, which spans more than four decades, Pease has been both educator and artist. Featured in approximately two dozen solo exhibitions and approximately 275 group exhibitions, Pease's work is represented in many public collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Pease has been a visiting artist, critic, panelist, presenter, consultant and program evaluator at a number of universities and art schools. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William A. Clark Medal at the Corcoran Biennial and the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Organizational theorist Charles Perrow is the author of six books, including "Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies," for which he is perhaps most widely recognized. Originally published in 1984, "Normal Accidents" was re-issued in 1999 in time for the new millennium. Through his studies of a general hospital, prisons, industrial corporations, high-risk systems and the AIDS epidemic, Perrow illustrated how complex operating systems are destined to produce disasters. Perrow has been a visiting professor at the London Graduate School of Business, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. A faculty member at Yale since 1981, Perrow was honored with special plenary sessions at the American Academy of Management and at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Charles Porter is a noted scholar of 18th-, 19th- and, most recently, 20th-century French literature, renowned in the scholarly world for his studies of the novelists Restif de la Bretonne and Chateaubriand, and as special editor of numerous issues of Yale French Studies. A member of the Yale faculty since 1960, Porter has served as director of undergraduate studies, director of graduate studies and chair of the Department of French. In the wider University community, Porter served as director of the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Summer Language Institute, and the Yale Summer and Special Programs, which he helped establish in 1978. In addition to numerous reviews in Romanic Review, French Review and French Forum, Porter is the author of the books "Restif's Novels, or an Autobiography in Search of an Author" and "Chateaubriand: Composition, Imagination and Poetry." Porter received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1962.
Fred Robinson joined the faculty at Yale in 1972. A leading scholar of Old English and of the history of the English language, Robinson has published numerous books, bibliographies, textual editions, guides, articles, essays and prefaces over 40 years. One of the few Americans ever invited to address the British Academy, Robinson lectured on a history of the publication of the text of "Beowulf" on that occasion. In 1998, Robinson published, with Bruce Mitchell, a new edition of "Beowulf." A former chair of Medieval Studies and acting chair of the Department of English, Robinson was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal for undergraduate teaching in 1999. Beyond Yale, Robinson has served as president of the Medieval Academy of America and the New England Medieval Conference, founding member of the Advisory Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists and chair of the Research and Bibliography Committee of the Modern Language Association.
Robert Szczarba, a leading figure in algebraic and differential topology, has developed path-breaking work in the field of mathematics in numerous papers on such subjects as rational homotopy, group cohomology, K-theory and imbeddability. Former chair of the Department of Mathematics and deputy provost for the physical sciences and engineering, Szczarba joined the faculty at Yale in 1960. In 1964-65 and again in 1972, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Szczarba is the author of the widely used textbook "Calculus in Vector Spaces," which is the backbone of Math 230, the honors course for Yale's mathematical students. An accomplished sculptor, Szczarba was commissioned to design "Continents," a world-map metal piece, by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and "Three Pentagons," a sculpture based on a mathematical theorem called "The Skew Pentagon Theorem," by the American Mathematical Society.
Gaddis Smith came to Yale as an undergraduate in 1950 and has, with the exception of three years, been here ever since. In his 39 years on the faculty at Yale, Smith has chaired the Department of History, served as master of Pierson College and directed the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He received the Mory's Cup for service to the University in 1997, the William Clyde DeVane Medal for distinguished scholarship and teaching in Yale College in 1986 and the Harwood F. Byrnes-Richard B. Sewall Prize for Teaching Excellence in Yale College in 1989. The author of over 200 articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and various historical journals, Smith is also the author of major books. These include "American Diplomacy in the Second World War," "Morality, Reason and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years" and "The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine."
Bradford Westerfield graduated from Yale College with highest honors in 1947. He returned to Yale to become a member of its faculty in 1957, and since then has taught over 10,000 undergraduates in his classes covering comparative foreign and defense policy processes, the international political economy, and intelligence and covert operations. Westerfield has served as chair of the Department of Political Studies, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and director of graduate studies in the International Relations Program. In 1993, he was awarded the Harwood F. Byrnes-Richard B. Sewall Prize for Teaching Excellence in Yale College. Westerfield's books, "Foreign Policy and Party Politics: Pearl Harbor to Korea," "The Instruments of America's Foreign Policy" and "Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992," have established him as a leading authority on American foreign policy during the Cold War and U.S. intelligence agencies.
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The Reverend Harry B. Adams
Horace Bushnell Professor of Christian Nurture, Divinity School
Truett Allison
Professor of Neurology and Psychology
David E. Apter
Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Comparative Political and Social Development
Richard C. Barker
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
Richard M. Barnhart
John M. Schiff Professor of the History of Art
Henry W. Broude
Philip G. Bartlett Professor of Economics and Economic History
Chie I. Chao
Senior Lector of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese)
Brevard S. Childs
Sterling Professor of Divinity
A. Thomas Cole
Professor of Classics
Kai T. Erikson
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology and American Studies
Creighton E. Gilbert
Professor of the History of Art
Robert L. Jackson
B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Ernest I. Kohorn
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Peter Lengyel
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Edwin McClellan
Sterling Professor of Japanese Literature
David Pease
Street Professor of Painting
Charles B. Perrow
Professor of Sociology
Charles A. Porter
Professor of French
Fred C. Robinson
Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English Literature
Robert H. Szczarba
Percy F. Smith Professor of Mathematics
G. Gaddis Smith
Larned Professor of History
H. Bradford Westerfield
Damon Wells Professor of Political Science and International Studies
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