Fellows

The Benjamin Franklin College Fellowship consists of members of the Yale Faculty, as well as members of the Yale administration, and other distinguished figures in the community. Fellows meet at the Head of College house each month to gather, discuss ideas, and meet students in the College. They also serve as first year advisors, run the Franklin Bike Shop, and assist the college in a variety of other ways.  Our Fellows are generally eager to engage with students to discuss academic and other matters. If you are interested in making a connection with one of the Franklin Fellows, consider asking them to join you for lunch in the Dining Hall, you can find their contact information below.

You can view the full list of our Fellows here!

Resident Fellow

Living in our College is our Resident Fellow Jordan Sahly.

Jordan Sahly

Jordan Sahly (Eastern Shoshone) is an Assistant Director at the Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and the regional admissions officer for North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Missouri, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, and the city of Boston. Jordan is  a graduate of Yale College (YC’ 24) with a degree in Chemical Engineering. In his free time, he loves making art (beadwork and painting), spending time with friends, and sampling (judging) the various coffee shops of New Haven (and everywhere else).

jordan sahly

Fellows & Associate Fellows

Paul Anastas

Professor in School of Environment. Green Chemistry, EPA Assistant Administrator, Whitehouse Science Advisor

Mert Bahtiyar

MD, OBGYN, Director of Yale Fetal Care Center

Charles Bailyn

Astronomer, former Head of Benjamin Franklin College

Carla Baricz

Librarian for Literature in English and Comparative Literature

Laurence Bates

Yale-China Association, corporate law, Japan, China

Mary Berdo

Deputy Director of Athletics, Yale University

Dirk Bergemann

Professor of Economics, Game Theory, Venture Capitol, Market Design

Kelly Blanchat

Associate Director, Learning Engagement at Yale Library

Colby Buehler

Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, Air Quality, Engineers without Borders

Indy Burke

Dean Yale School of Environment

Geoffrey Canales

Assistant Director of Disability and Neurodiversity

Florian Carle

Physics, Managing Director of Yale Quantum Institute

Melissa Castleman

Writer, food and Wine critic, Assoc. Head of Benjamin Franklin College

Hsiu-hsien Chan

Senior Lector of East Asian Languages and Literature

Joan Channick

Professor in the Practice of Theater Management 

Sinho Chewi

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Joshua Cochran

Curator, American History and Diplomacy

Ellen Cohn

Historian, Editor of Benjamin Franklin Papers

Jennifer Currier

Director Franklin/Murray Dining Hall

Melissa DelVecchio

Partner and director of research at Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Sebastian Diaz

Senior Lector 1 of Spanish and Portuguese

Christine DiMeglio

Senior Lecturer in Chemistry

William English

Professor of Practice in Yale School of Management, former Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Ozan Erat

Lecturer of Computer Science

Amir Fairdosi

Lecturer in Political Science

John-Paulo Fernandes

Director of Campus Stewardship, Yale University

Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Professor of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment

Jeanne Follansbee

Former Dean of Yale Summer Session, Yale University

John Fortner

Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Anna Franz

Beinecke Library Assistant Program Director, Education

Jennifer Frederick

Assistant Provost for Academic Initiatives, Director, Poorvu Center

John Gaddis

Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History

Marla Geha

Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military & Naval History

Drew Gentner

Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering 

Eric Gershon

Assistant Vice President, Editorial, OPAC Yale

Mark Gerstein

Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Kel Ginsberg

Director, New Haven Office, Yale-NUS College

William Ginsberg

Former Director and CEO of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

Amir Haji-Akbari

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

John Hall

Senior Lecturer, Mathematics

Allison Harris

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Institution of Social and Policy Studies

John Harris

Professor of Physics

Sheila Hayre

Law Faculty at Quinnipiac University, Immigration Law

Benjamin Hellings

Curator of Numismatics, Yale University Art Gallery

Jessie Hill

Former Dean, Benjamin Franklin College

Sarah Hull

MD, Cardiology, Bioethics and Nutrition

Ysabel Ilagan-Ying

MD, Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellow, Yale School of Medicine

Douglas Kankel

Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Vandana Khungar

MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Digetive Diseases, Yale School of Medicine

Jaehong Kim

Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

William Klein

Senior Lecturer, Department of History

Heather Klemann

Senior Lecturer in English

Elka Kristo Nagy

English Languate Program Lector, Yale University

John Lafferty

Associate Director and Center Director at Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence

William Lauenroth

Professor, Yale School of the Environment

Mordechai Levy-Eichel

Lecturer in Political Science

Katja Lindskog

Lecturer, English Department and Humanities Program

Christina Linsenmeyer

Associate Curator at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments

Kathryn Lofton

Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Professor of History and Divinity

Linda Lorimer

Former Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiates at Yale; Former President of Randolph College

Joseph Magliocco

CEO of Michters Distillery

Michael Mak

Yale School of Medicine

Richard Martinello

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Pediatrics; Yale Medicine (YM) Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

Jorge Méndez-Seijas

Senior Lector, Spanish Language Program Director

Caitlin Meyer

Research and Education Librarian, Yale School of Medicine

Sarah Miller

Associate Dean, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Bhramar Mukherjee

Public Health, Big Data and Health

Michael Oristaglio

Co-founder of Yale Energy Studies Certificate

Rohini Pande

Professor of Economics, Yale University, Director of Economics Growth Center

James Patterson

Classics, language program director, Senior Lector, Knows Latin & Greek

Garo Paylan

Politician, human rights and democracy activist

Bruce Payne

Writer, civil rights activist, ethics and policy professor

Jordan Peccia

Professor of Environmental Engineering, Environment, Public Health, Pathogens, Head of Benjamin Franklin Collge 

Mark Peterson

Professor of History, Early North American and Atlantic World, Constitution

Matthew Polly

Writer

Daniel Prober

Professor of Applied Physics

Daniel Rakita

Professor of Computer Science, motion planning and motion optimization algorithms for robot manipulator motions in real-time

Mica Rencher

Dean Benjamin Franklin College

Niles Rencher

Photographer, Entrepenuer

Stephen Roach

Senior Fellow, Yale Law School, former Chief Economist Morgan Stanley

Marie Robert

MD, Professor of Pathology, Yale Law School

Matthew Rodeheffer

Professor of Comparison Medicine, Yale Medical School

Alan Rooney

Prof in Planetary Sciences, techtonics, climate proceses, geochemical cycles

Emma Rose

Director, Office of Fellowship Programs

Jonathan Rubin

Partner in Westbury Group, strategy consulting and financial management and advice

Lucia Rubinelli

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Jordan Sahly

Assistant Director, Yale University office of Admissions

James Saiers

Hydrology, water quality and supply, faculty YSE

Sam Samdani

Former Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company , chemical and advanced materials industries

Sherilyn Scully

Assistant Dean, Student and Academic Services at Yale School of Management

Swapna Sharma

Senior Lector in Hindi; Director, Language Program in South Asian Studies

Jill Siegel

Yale School of Architecture, Director of Development and Alumni Relations

Kyle Sirianno

Czar of the Franklin Bike Shop

David Skelly

Ecology, Director of Yale Peabody

Richard Slade

Tenor, conductor, and teacher

Robert Soule

Associate Professor, Yale Electrical and Computer Engineering

Scott Speirs

Regional Director, Major Gifts at Yale University

Hannah Stamler

Historian, writer, and arts and humanities professional

Jonathan Steinberg

Writer, Sr. Lecturer Yale Department of Policital Science

Rebecca Tannenbaum

Sr. Lecturer, Yale Department of History, former Associate Head of College, Benjamin Franklin College

Leandros Tassiulas

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Benjamin Tolchin

MD, neurologist

Serena Tucci

Assisstant Professor of Anthropology, Human Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory

W. Trevor Uhl

CFO & Co-Founder at MedTex Ventures LLC

Aleksandar Uskokov

Lector in Religious Studies, Indian philosophy. 

Claudia Valeggia

Anthropologist, human reproductive ecology, reproductive endocrinology, maternal and child health, and health of indigenous people in Latin America

Jerome Walker

Musician, writer, educator

Christina Woodford

Associate Director for Development, Yale Libraries

Vera Wu

Artist (painter)

Lee Ying

MD, General Surgery, Yale School of Medicine

Julie Zimmerman

Professor, Yale Environmental Engineering and Yale School of Environment. Vice Provost of Planetary Solutions