Fourteen senior faculty members have been awarded
the "emeritus" title by vote of the Yale Corporation. They are:
William R. Bennett Jr.
William R. Bennett Jr., the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of physics, is one of the country's leading researchers in the field of lasers and is a specialist in atomic and molecular physics. He co-invented the first gaseous laser and invented the dynamic spectral phonocardiograph, a device that converts the heart's sound waves into computer images. He has written books on topics ranging from gas and chemical lasers to the physics of music; he received national attention for his 1993 book "Health and Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields," in which he asserted that health risks from low-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by power lines and electrical home appliances have been greatly overemphasized. Bennett first joined the Yale faculty in 1957, then worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories 1959-62, when he rejoined the faculty. He became a full professor in 1964 and the C.B. Sawyer Professor in 1972. He served as master of Silliman College 1981-87. His honors include the 1994 Eli Whitney Award from the Connecticut Patent Law Association for being an "outstanding Connecticut inventor."
Louis K. Dupré
Louis K. Dupré, the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of Religious Studies, is considered one of the preeminent philosophers of religion in the world. He has devoted his career to an in-depth study of the foundations and principles of Catholicism and spirituality, and understanding the human condition. He has written more than a dozen books, including "Contraception and Catholics," "The Other Dimension," "The Deeper Life," "The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism," "Passage to Modernity," "Metaphysics and Culture" and "Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection." Born in Belgium, Dupré immigrated to the United States in 1958 and taught at Georgetown University before joining the Yale faculty in 1973 as the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor. He has served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Hegel Society of America. His many honors include a 1996 award for excellence in teaching from the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
Dr. Marshall Edelson
Dr. Marshall Edelson, professor of psychiatry, attained emeritus status last Dec. 31. He is well-known as a psychoanalytic scholar and as a methodologist. He has particularly been interested in clinical research, the case study method and the psychotherapeutic process, and he has been a leader in developing the therapeutic community in psychiatric inpatient settings. His seven books include "Psychoanalysis: A Theory in Crisis," "The Idea of a Mental Illness" and "The Termination of Intensive Psychotherapy." Edelson joined the Yale faculty in 1968 and was named a full professor in 1976. He has held a number of administrative posts at Yale, including acting director of the Behavioral Sciences Study Center and director of education and of research for the department of psychiatry. He has received more than six teaching awards from residents in the department of psychiatry; his other honors include the psychiatry department's Stephen Fleck Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Clinical Teacher.
Jacques Guicharnaud
Jacques Guicharnaud, the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French, attained emeritus status last Dec. 31. He is an internationally known scholar of French theater who has also written and directed plays for the stage and television, and authored short stories and a novel. His books include "Modern French Theatre from Giraudoux to Beckett," which he coauthored with his late wife, June Beckelman Guicharnaud, and "Molière, une aventure théatrale." A native of France, he was friends with such noted writers and philosophers as Sartre and Camus. He came to the United States in 1949 and taught at Bryn Mawr College before joining the Yale faculty as an instructor in 1950. He became a full professor in 1962. He left Yale briefly in 1977 to teach at Harvard University, returning in 1979. He has served as acting master of Jonathan Edwards College and Morse College. Guicharnaud's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and Fairfield University's Gaudete Award.
George L. Hersey
George L. Hersey, professor of the history of art, is an authority on Italian Renaissance architecture and sculpture, and 19th-century architecture and art in Europe and America. He has authored seven books, including "Pythagorean Palaces: Architecture and Magic in the Italian Renaissance," "The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi" and "The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk." Hersey earned three degrees from Yale: a M.F.A. from the School of Drama in 1954, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in history of art in 1961 and 1964, respectively. He taught at Bucknell University before coming to Yale as an instructor in 1963. He became a full professor in 1974. He served twice as director of graduate studies. Since 1975, he has been editor of Yale Publications in the History of Art. A frequently invited lecturer in Italy, his honors include a Fulbright Scholarship and Morse Fellowship.
The Reverend Leander E. Keck
The Reverend Leander E. Keck, the Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology, is a scholar of the New Testament who came to Yale as dean of the Divinity School in 1979. He served in that post for 10 years. He earned his Ph.D. from the University in 1957 and taught at Wellesley College, the Vanderbilt University Divinity School and at both Emory University's Candler School of Theology and its Graduate School before returning to Yale as dean. Keck has edited numerous books and has authored or coauthored nearly a dozen, including "Taking the Bible Seriously," "The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History," "The Bible in the Pulpit" and "Paul and His Letters." He is a former editor of a monograph series for the Society of Biblical Literature and has been convenor of the editorial board of "The New Interpreter's Bible," a 12-volume reference work on biblical scholarship. His honors include many invitations to hold prestigious lectureships in theology and religion throughout the United States and abroad.
Lowell S. Levin
Lowell S. Levin, professor of public health and director of the Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, is an authority in the fields of health education and community health programs. He also is internationally recognized as a leader in promoting the self-care movement. He has coauthored six books, including "Medicine on Trial," which received national attention for its look at ineptitude and neglect on the part of medical professionals. Among his other books are "The Hidden Health Care System" and "Self-Care: Lay Initiatives in Health." Levin earned his M.P.H. from Yale in 1960 and joined the Yale faculty as an associate professor three years later after teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. He was promoted a full professor in 1979. He has served as head of Yale's division of international health and as a consultant to the World Health Organization. He has been honored with memberships in a number of health and scientific associations.
William L. Lichten
William L. Lichten, professor of physics and of engineering and applied science, has focused his work in the areas of experimental and theoretical atomic physics. He has written more than 50 scientific articles or papers in his field, as well as a number of educational publications. He came to Yale as a physics professor in 1964 after working as a research physicist at the Columbia Radiation Laboratory and teaching at the University of Chicago and the Institute for the Study of Metals. His joint appointment in the department of engineering and applied science was made in 1975. He has served on numerous University committees, including the faculty advisory committee for the Teacher Training Program at Yale College and the junior appointments committee. His honors include fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
David Montgomery
David Montgomery, the Farnam Professor of History, attained emeritus status last Dec. 31. He is an authority on American labor history. He has written a half-dozen books on that subject, including "The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925" which earned the Yale historian the 1988 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa. During his Yale career, he has been active in campus labor issues. He came to Yale as the Farnam Professor in 1979 after teaching at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Warwick in England and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has served as editor of the series "The Working Class in American History" and as coeditor of "International Labor and Working-Class History." His honors include the Yale College Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.
G. Daniel Mostow
G. Daniel Mostow, the Henry Ford II Professor of Mathematics, is noted for his work in the areas of algebraic groups, Lie algebras, structure and representation theory, and discrete and arithmetic groups. He came to Yale in 1961 after teaching at Johns Hopkins University and was appointed the Henry Ford II Professor in 1980. He chaired the math department 1971-74. Mostow was president of the American Mathematical Society 1987-88, and he has been a visiting professor in Japan, India, Israel, France, Brazil and Switzerland, among other countries. He has been associate editor of Journal D'Analyse, published in Jerusalem, since 1997. His honors include the 1993 Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for a paper he authored that was judged to be "a work of fundamental or lasting importance in its field."
Jerome J. Pollitt
Jerome J. Pollitt, Sterling Professor of Classical Archaeology and History of Art, has devoted much of his career to exploring how ancient Greek art is an expression of the same cultural currents that can be found in Greek literature and philosophy. He has examined this theme in several of his six books, including "Art and Experience in Classical Greece," "The Ancient View of Greek Art," and "Art in the Hellenistic Age." A 1957 graduate of Yale College, Pollitt has spent his entire teaching career at the University, where he first came as an instructor in 1962. He was appointed a full professor in 1973; the John M. Schiff Professor of Classical Archaeology and History of Art in 1990 and Sterling Professor in 1995. He was dean of the Graduate School 1986-91. He is one of few individuals in Yale's history to have served as chair of two departments -- classics (1971-72 and 1975-77) and history of art (1981-84). He has been honored with the William Clyde DeVane Medal from the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for distinguished scholarship and teaching and with the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from the Alumni Association of the Yale Graduate School.
Jan A.J. Stolwijk
Jan A.J. Stolwijk, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, is an authority on the effects of the environment on human health. He is known worldwide for his research on the effects of climate on the human thermo-regulatory system, as well as for his studies on health problems related to air pollution. He also has explored such issues as the public's perceptions of environmental risks and whether it's possible to determine a scientific basis for compensating victims exposed to hazardous chemicals and materials. Born in the Netherlands, Stolwijk came to Yale as an instructor in 1962, was appointed a full professor in 1975 and was named the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor in 1982. He chaired the department of epidemiology and public health 1982-89 and has twice served as the department's director of graduate studies. He also was associate director of the John B. Pierce Foundation 1974-89. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and on the scientific advisory panel exploring the rehabitation of Love Canal.
Bruce B. Stowe
Bruce B. Stowe, a professor of biology and a professor of forestry at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, is an authority on plant physiology and biochemistry. He has authored or coauthored numerous papers about plant physiology and plant hormones, among other topics. A native of France, he joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1959 after teaching at Harvard University. He was made a full professor in 1971, and became professor of forestry three years later. Stowe was director of the University's Marsh Botanical Garden 1975-78 and later served as acting director of the research facility. His administrative duties at Yale have included serving as director of undergraduate studies in biology 1967-71 and as director of the biology department's greenhouses 1976-78. Outside of Yale, he has served on review panels and committees for the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Public Health Service and the National Academy of Sciences. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Dr. John S. Strauss
Dr. John S. Strauss, professor of psychiatry, attained emeritus
status March 31. He is a noted expert on the diagnosis and treatment of
schizophrenia, and he has published widely on topics related to the mental
illness. He also led the effort to organize a consumer support group for
persons with mental illness. A graduate of the Yale medical school in
1959, Strauss joined the Yale faculty as professor of psychiatry and
director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute in 1977. He held the latter
post until 1979. Prior to coming to Yale, he taught at the University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where he was also director of
clinical psychiatry research programs. He has served as a member of the
task force for the President's Commission on Mental Health and was a
collaborating investigator for a study on schizophrenia conducted by the
World Health Organization. His honors include the American Psychiatric
Association's van Amerigen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation.
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