People

Department of Sociology

Sorcha Alexandrina Brophy-Warren

Research interests: Cultural sociology, ethnography, religious and ethnic identity, postcolonialism. Her previous work explored the way that communities and institutions articulate and evaluate religious identities through adherence to moral boundaries.

Education: A.B. The Comparative Study of Religion, with high honors (Harvard University)

Department of Spanish and Portugese

Areas of interest include: Modernismo; Latin American Literature; Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean; interrelations of journalism and literature; literature and ethics. Among other works, he has authored the following books: La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1983); La novela modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Gredos, 1987); Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993),Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (Austin: U of Texas Press, 2002; Spanish translation: Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna, México: Siglo XXI Editores, 2002) and A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (London: Tamesis, 2007). His most recent book isLove and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel (Austin: U of Texas Press, 2010).

Groups

Groups of Schools

Graduate Association of Latino/a & Caribbean Students at Yale (GALACY)

GALACY was formed with the purpose of uniting Latino/Caribbean graduate students and raising awareness of issues of interest and impacting the Latino community at Yale and beyond.

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
 

Yale Caribbean Students’ Organization

To provide a support system for Yale students of Caribbean descent. Our goal is to make the Yale College campus as comfortable a community as possible for Caribbean students by providing fun activities during which members may come together and share one another’s college experiences. Such activities may include but are not limited to parties, discussions on the current issues facing the West Indies, outings, lectures on the Caribbean, and picnics. To educate the Yale Community and ourselves about the rich cultures and traditions of the West Indies. This is accomplished through the collective exploration of our common ancestry and the sharing of the unique cultural aspects of the respective Caribbean regions from which this ancestry emerged. This exchange is not limited to individuals of Caribbean descent, but rather it is extended to all who wish to gain a greater understanding of and to participate in the diffusion of this rich tradition.

Yale School of Art

Nicole Awai Ms. Awai was born in Trinidad and educated in the USA. She received her BA in 1991 and an MFA in Multi-media Art in 1996 from the University of South Florida. She also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997. She has exhibited widely in the US as well as internationally at such institutions as PS1 MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, The Salvador Dali Museum and the Queens Museum. Ms Awai’s work was included in the Biennial of Ceramic in Contemporary Art in Italy in 2003 and in the Busan Biennale in Korea in 2008. She has been an artist in residence at numerous places including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The John Michael Kohler Center as well Hunter College. She was invited to speak about her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art as featured artist in the Initial Public Offerings series in 2005. Ms. Awai’s work is currently included in Global Caribbean: Focus on the Contemporary Caribbean Visual Art Landscape which subsequently resulted in the recent conference Global Caribbean: Interrogating the Politics of Location in Literature & Culture a collaboration with the University of Miami. She was a featured speaker at the conference in Miami. Global Caribbean will travel next to MIAM in Sete, France. Ms. Awai was appointed critic in painting/printmaking in 2009. She lives and works in New York.

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences

Professor Benoit’s research and teaching focus on the behavior, transport, and fate of chemicals in natural waters, soils, sediments, and biota. Two special areas of interest are nonpoint source pollutants and biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides. Most of his research involves state-of-the-art analytical methods and carefully designed field sampling programs, with results verified by laboratory simulations or simple mathematical models. His research is conducted in a watershed context, and study sites include freshwater and terrestrial systems, as well as estuarine and coastal environments. Four current research emphases are the use of modern clean techniques to investigate trace metals; micronutrient limitation by Cu and Fe; spatial and temporal variability of nonpoint source pollution; and human-environment interactions in urban areas. Currently teaching a course on Caribbean coastal development.

Yale School of Music

Specializations: Ethnomusicology (African and Caribbean Music), African-American Music (Jazz and Popular Music). Michael Veal has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1998. Before coming to Yale, he taught at Mount Holyoke College (1996 – 1998) and New York University (1997-1998). His work has addressed topics of biography, history, analysis, and interpretation in various musics of Africa and the African diaspora. His socio-contextual biography of the late Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti uses the life of one of the most influential African musicians of the post-WWII era to explore themes of African post-coloniality, musical and cultural interchange between cultures of Africa and the African diaspora, and the political uses of music in Africa. His current work-in-progress on Jamaican dub music examines the ways in which the studio-based innovations of Jamaican recording engineers during the 1970s created a sonic space for the emergence of a distinctly post-colonial Jamaican culture locally, while they worked to transform the structure and concept of the post-WWII popular song globally.

Yale School of Public Health

Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla is Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health and Director, Office of Community Health, Yale School of Public Health. He is also Director and PI of the Connecticut NIH EXPORT Center of Excellence for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos (CEHDL).  His public health nutrition and food security research has led to improvements in breastfeeding promotion, iron deficiency anemia among infants (by delaying the clamping of the umbilical cord after birth), household food security measurement and outcomes, and community nutrition education programs worldwide. His health disparities research involves assessing the impact of community health workers at improving behavioral and metabolic outcomes among Latinos with type 2 diabetes. He has published over 100 research articles and over 300 conference abstracts, book chapters, and technical reports. 

International Activity

  • Latin America & Caribbean   (2007 - 2010)
  • UNESCO Human Rights Chair-UConn
  • Global audience, forums in USA, Rwanda   (2004 - 2010)
  • Brazil   (2003 - 2010)

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