Profession and title:
Lawyer
Interests:
Ms. Tomasic is the widow of renowned composer and former faculty and Morse Fellow Ingram Marshall. Her son and daughter-in-law are MD’s and she has 2 fierce granddaughters.
She loves gardens, parks, and public spaces, and she is always up for a walk around campus to admire Yale’s architecture. She speaks Italian.
Brief biography:
Veronica Tomasic received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 2001. She graduated from Quinnipiac School of Law that same year. As a graduate student at Yale, she TA’d in the English, African American Studies, Film Studies, and (what was then known as) Women’s Studies departments. She also taught English 115A. Ms.Tomasic was a Marcia Brady Tucker Fellow at the Yale Art Gallery. Her doctoral dissertation was titled, Representations of the Inner Life in an Age of Transition: The Work of Edward Hopper, Richard Wright, Jacob Lawrence, James Agee, Walker Evans, and select Hollywood Filmmakers. Alan Trachtenberg was her dissertation advisor.
After graduating from law school, she worked as a law clerk for New Haven Superior Court judges. She now practices probate law, representing elderly, mentally ill, and disabled clients in local probate courts. She is frequently a substitute decision maker for patients who are unable to make healthcare decisions for themselves, and she has written about end-of-life matters.
Areas for involvement with Morse students:
Academic advising for first-year students
Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen
Is there another way in which you might work with Morse students not listed above?:
Applying to law and medical schools
Email Address:
Phone Number:
203-789-0874