Yale welcomes these distinguished scholars and practitioners to campus in 2016-17 as Visiting Presidential Fellows |
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| Visiting Presidential Fellows are appointed as part of the Initiative for Faculty Excellence and Diversity. Approximately 10 exceptional scholars and practitioners who contribute to inclusive excellence will be appointed each year during the initiative | |
Faculty of Arts & Sciences |
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Charles Blow |
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T.L. Cowan Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fields: cultural and intellectual economies and social lives of trans-feminist and queer community-based performance, especially cabaret, and on the shifting practices of self-expression across digital media Joins Yale from the School of Media Studies, where T.L. is Chair of Experimental Pedagogies, and Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research, where T.L. is Lecturer of Culture and Media |
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Zethu Matebeni Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fields: activist, writer, documentary filmmaker working on queer studies, gender, sexuality, race, HIV/AIDS, African film, cinema, and photography Joins Yale from the University of Cape Town, where she is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Senior Researcher in the Institute for Humanities in Africa |
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Gary Okihiro Visiting Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Fields: historical methodology and theories of social and historical formations, the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S., pre-colonial and colonialist economic history, and race and world history Joins Yale from Columbia University, where he is Professor of International and Public Affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race |
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Lyn Ossome Lecturer, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fields: feminist political economy, land and agrarian studies, feminist political theory Joins Yale from the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Kampala, Uganda, where she is Senior Research Fellow |
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Zakia Salime Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fields: comparative feminism(s), gender, globalization, social movements, international inequalities, and postcoloniality Joins Yale from Rutgers University, where she is Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies |
School of Divinity |
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Benjamin Valentin Visiting Professor of Theology Fields: contemporary theology and culture, constructive theology, U.S. Hispanic/Latino(a) Christianity and theology, liberation theology, and Christianity in Latin America Joins Yale from Andover Newton Theological School, where he is Professor of Theology and Culture and Director of the Orlando Costas Lectureship in Latino/a Theology, |
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies |
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Michael Mendez James and Mary Pinchot Fellow of Sustainability Studies, Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer Fields: urban planning, public health, and Science & Technology Studies (STS) how the built environment, policymaking process, and social movements influence sustainability and population health in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color Joins Yale from the University of San Francisco, where he was the Provost’s Inaugural Gerardo Marin Postdoctoral Scholar |
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Sarah Vaughn |
School of Law |
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Miriam Gohara Visiting Clinical Associate Professor of Law Fields: advocacy for children and youth; serving underrepresented and marginalized populations, particularly communities of color Joins Yale having served as the Resource Counsel with the Federal Capital Habeas Project and as Assistant Director of the Criminal Justice Project at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fun |
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Marisol Orihuela |
School of Music |
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HU Yongyan Visiting Professor Adjunct of Conducting Fields: Symphony orchestra conducting Current and previous appointments include: Principal Guest Conductor, Rostock Philharmonie, Northern Germany; Artistic Director, EOS Repertoire Orchestra – China’s Orchestra Academy at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing |
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Ricardo Morales Visiting Professor Adjunct of Clarinet Fields: Clarinet, chamber music performance, solo performance, opera, Bartók Currently serves as Principal Clarinetist, Philadelphia Orchestra; previously was Principal Clarinetist, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |