Morse Fellows

Steven Girvin holds a BS from Bates College (1971), an MS from the University of Maine, and MS and PhD from Princeton (1977). He is a Professor of Physics and Applied Physics. From 2007-17 he had a senior administrative role as Deputy Provost for Research at Yale. 

Kate is a clinical supervisor at Redeemer Counseling Services in New York City and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Kate holds a BA from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Eastern University, St. David’s, PA. She specializes in the areas of substance abuse and addictions, including behavioral addictions, spiritually integrated psychotherapy, anxiety, depression, dysfunctional family issues, grief, PTSD, adolescent issues, and young adult (single or married) issues. Kate is also passionate about Animal Assisted Therapy and has a trained therapy dog.  As an adjunct professor, she has taught graduate-level courses in addictions and co-occurring disorders. When not rooting for the Denver Broncos football team, Kate and her husband Mike, enjoy walking their dog, (Emma), hiking, backpacking and traveling extensively.

Christopher Hawthorne is a critic, author, and urban designer. He is Senior Critic at the Yale School of Architecture, with a secondary appointment in Yale College as Lecturer in English. He served from 2018 to 2022 as the first Chief Design Officer for the city of Los Angeles, a position appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti. In this role he provided design oversight for major building and infrastructure projects across the city as well as launching initiatives related to housing, architecture, urban design, civic memory, and public art.

From 2004 to 2018 Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. His writing on architecture and the arts has also appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Harvard Design Magazine, Architect, Architectural Record, Domus, and many other publications. With Alanna Stang, he is author of The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press).

His earlier teaching appointments include positions at the University of Southern California, Occidental College, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and U.C. Berkeley. A frequent collaborator with KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Hawthorne wrote and directed the documentary “That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles,” for which he received an L.A.-area Emmy Award. He also received an Emmy for his work as executive producer on KCET’s “Third L.A. with Architecture Critic Christopher Hawthorne.” From 2015 to 2022, first at Occidental and then at USC, he led the Third Los Angeles Project, a series of public conversations about architecture, urban planning, mobility, and demographic change in Southern California.

Hawthorne was the Fall 2022 Bernadette Ma Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the U.C. Berkeley College of Environmental Design. He has been a Mid-Career Fellow at Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism Program and a Resident in Criticism at the American Academy in Rome.

Konrad Kaczmarek is on the faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University, where he teaches courses in composition, music technology, and instrument design.  He is Co-Director of Yale College New Music, Associate Director of the YalMusT Music Technology Labs, and has a joint appointment as Lecturer in Sound Design at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.  He holds degrees from Princeton University (Ph.D. in Music, 2015), University of London, Goldsmiths (M.Mus in Electroacoustic Composition, 2003), and Yale University (B.A. in Music, 2002).