New residential college deans have been appointed at Berkeley and Davenport colleges, Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead announced.
The new dean of Berkeley College is George Levesque, who has been a resident fellow at the college since 1996 and is assistant director of the Office of International Education and Fellowships Programs. He succeeds Laurence Winnie, who left last term after 11 years of service to become associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Levesque, who earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Yale Divinity School, has also served at the University as assistant master of summer programs and as assistant director of Undergraduate Career Services. He has also coordinated the orientation for international students at Yale. In his current post, he advises students on fellowships in the United Kingdom and about study abroad in general.
Levesque earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in religion from Florida State University. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in history and education at Columbia University. His dissertation is on 19th-century American colleges and the rise of the modern university.
"Mr. Levesque brings a wide range of experience with Yale students both residentially and academically to his position as residential college dean," said Brodhead in a letter to Berkeley College fellows and students.
Levesque and his wife, Katie, will continue living in Entryway F of the college.
The new dean at Davenport College is Peter Quimby, who comes to Yale from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He succeeds acting dean Eileen Hunt.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Quimby served as associate director of the Pathway to Excellence Project, a set of campus-wide initiatives designed to improve the quality of undergraduate education, and was assistant dean of Chadbourne Residential College, which included 700 undergraduates. In the latter role, he coordinated academic programming, counseled students on academic and personal matters, and represented the residential college on University committees.
A graduate of Bowdoin College, where he majored in government and Russian, Quimby earned master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a scholar of the culture and politics of post-Soviet states, and his dissertation is titled "Constructing States, Constructing Interests: Religion and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine." His teaching interests include international relations, comparative foreign policy and political change in developing countries. He also is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
"To his new position at Yale, Mr. Quimby brings broad experience with, and a deep commitment to, the role of the residential college in undergraduate education," said Brodhead in his letter to Davenport College fellows and students.
Quimby will reside in the dean's suite at Davenport with his wife, Laurie; his six-year-old daughter, Katie; and his three-year-old son, Timothy.
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