Morse Fellows

Rebecca Toseland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Director of Research Support at the Tobin Center for Economic Policy. Previously, she was a Research Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests span a variety of domestic policy issues including economic mobility, education, housing, health, and the environment. She received a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Yale University as a member of the other best residential college at Yale (Timothy Dwight – Ashé!). She also holds an M.A. in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

She is one of four Morse affiliates who provides advising and mentoring for upperclassmen through the Yale Department of Economics; an appointment can be booked here.

Paul Van Tassel is a Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include biomolecules at interfaces, nanofilm biomaterials, macromolecular adsorption under electric potential, adsorption in templated porous materials, optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy, molecular computer simulation, and statistical mechanics. In 20111, he was honored with the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering award. He was also awarded with the J. William Fulbright Scholarship in France in 2009. 

Dinny spent her career at Price Waterhouse (PW) and then PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), retiring in 2012. Her years were split between providing US tax advice to individuals living and working outside their home countries and designing, developing, and delivering technical training to the 7500 tax professionals at the firm. She also had operational responsibility for a $23,000,000 training budget.

Although she comes from New Haven and lives there now, Dinny spent 15 years in the UK with her husband and two (now grown) children.

Dinny received her BA from Connecticut College in New London and her MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Alexis Wang is Assistant Professor of art history at Binghamton University and a Research Scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University, specializing in the visual and material cultures of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Her current research focuses on issues of materiality, cross-cultural exchange, and the intersections of art, science, and devotion in the medieval world. She is currently at work on her book project, The Embedded Object: Intermedial Surfaces in Medieval Mural Decoration, which is the first comprehensive study of the practice of embedding devotional objects, such as relics and painted panels, into monumental mural images in medieval Italian churches. Wang’s research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.