Morse Fellows
Morse College is a vibrant community. We would love to count you among us. The Fellows meet a few times per semester at the Head of College’s House, to interact with friends from all parts of the University and the broader community. Many play the role of Advisor for a student or two. We extend invitations to student functions such as performances and college-wide social events, welcome participation at intramural sports, and provide dining privileges in the college at lunch, all so you can meet with students, faculty, and friends. Please join us - we welcome you!
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William (Will) Cafferty
Associate Professor of Neurology and of Neuroscience; Morse Resident Fellow
Biography
Will Cafferty was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1975. His family moved to England when he was 5 years old and settled in South London, Wimbledon. He graduated from Wimbledon College in 1994 and then completed a Bachelor’s degree at Bristol University. He attended graduate school at King’s College London, and received a PhD in Neuroscience studying sensory and motor dysfunction in the damaged peripheral nervous system.
Wimbledon, more specifically, tennis, and the nervous system have been constants in his life from an early age. Growing up in Wimbledon he attended the ‘the Championships’ yearly, and was elated to serve as a ball boy at the 1991 tournament. While his playing days have slowed somewhat, he still enjoys attending tournaments and playing recreationally. If not playing tennis, he can be found at the gym, or running, his father is a sub 3:30 marathoner and a friendly head to head is looming!
Will’s passion, however, is studying the central nervous system (CNS). After his PhD studies, he moved to Yale in the autumn of 2004 to begin a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Stephen Strittmatter’s laboratory to explore how and why damaged neurons fail to re-grow after spinal cord injury (SCI). Quiescence of these damaged pathways results in permanent dysfunction and therefore, clinical interventions that repair the damaged CNS are urgently required. After 4 years of studying with Dr. Strittmatter, Will received a transition award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and began setting up his own independent research laboratory. The Cafferty lab opened in the summer of 2010 and continues to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms that restrict axonal repair after spinal cord injury.
Simon Charlow
Associate Professor Tenure of Linguistics
Biography
I’m a linguist specializing in formal and computational semantics. As a semanticist, my goal is to understand how people use language to systematically and compositionally convey and apprehend meaning. My work uses tools from mathematics, logic, and computer science to develop models of meaning and communication. I received my PhD at NYU in 2014, and was previously a professor at Rutgers University.
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Shulamith Chernoff
Prof Emerita, SCSU
Biography
Shulamith Chernoff received her joint Masters’ in Child Development and Early Childhood Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary. For thirty years she has taught and mentored teachers, and taught and directed in early childhood centers. Now retired, she has published a book of poetry, and has also translated Holocaust survivors’ memoirs.
Interests:
Prof. Chernoff is interested in speaking with minority students and students who come from less affluent neighborhoods. She would like to connect with students from those backgrounds, and those who are first generation college students who seek advice and support.
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Kevin Coady
Real Estate Development-Owner
Biography
Kevin Coady is a real estate developer who has had long involvement in commercial real estate. He is a recent resident of New Haven after 45 years up the coast in Branford where he has assisted his wife of 45 years in her endeavors as owner of RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison.
Interests:
Mr. Coady likes to make students feel welcome in New Haven and invites them to the home he shares with his wife, just off campus.
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Jennifer Coggins
Community Engagement Archivist, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Biography
Jennifer Coggins has worked in the Yale Library since 2019, first as Archivist for Collection Development in the Manuscripts and Archives department and then in her current role in Community Engagement for the Beinecke Library. Before coming to Yale, she worked in the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a MS in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in history from Wofford College.
Interests:
Archives and public history, New Haven history
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Bonnie Collier
Law Librarian
Biography
Bonnie Collier was the librarian for American History at Sterling Memorial Library before becoming the Associate Director for Yale Law Library, and currently is the Director for the Yale Law School Oral History Project.
Interests:
Ms. Collier’s interests include historical research and historiography, Connecticut history, women and the law, trends in publishing and libraries, nature and changes in scholarly communication.
She is passionate about running a program at Ingalls Rink to teach inner city kids from the Wexler-Grant school how to ice skate, and she would love help from Morse students!!!! Skaters or non-skaters needed !!!!! (Wednesdays at 2:30)
As a former competitive figure skater, she is happy to meet and talk with students juggling elite sports and academics.
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Drew Collins
Associate Research Scholar at the Yale School of Divinity
Biography
Drew Collins is a lecturer, assistant director of the Christ and Flourishing program, and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at the Yale Divinity School and a lecturer of humanities at Yale University. He is author or editor of three books, including Unique and Universal Christ: Refiguring the Theology of Religions, The Joy of Humility, and What is the Good life? He lives in Guilford, with his wife Mary and three children, Agatha, Archie, and Wilfred.
Interests:
I play the guitar (and a tiny bit of mandolin) and love seeing live music, especially improvisational music like jazz and certain rock and roll bands. I love to ski, both x-country and downhill, and to fly-fish.
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Rebecca Cramer
Associate Director and Program Manager, International Development
Biography
Interests:
Learning languages, swimming, hiking, gardening, making art, African literature.
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Matthew Croasmun
Associate Research Scholar, Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Biography
Matthew Croasmun is Associate Research Scholar and director of the Life Worth Living program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School and lecturer of Humanities at Yale University. He also serves as faith initiative director at Grace Farms Foundation and as a pastor at the Elm City Vineyard Church. He is author or co-author of five books, including The Emergence of Sin: The Cosmic Tyrant in Romans, For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference, and Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most.
Interests:
I love playing and writing music. Soccer, basketball, and squash keep me active.
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David Cundy
President of Design Trust
Biography
Interests:
David’s interests range widely among the arts, including film (the “seventh art”), avant-garde literature and music.