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Contents 1 Course Pages 2 Why Stiles Rocks! 3 Ideas for Student Activities Committee (SAC) events? 4 Intramurals 5 Masters 6 Deans 7 Alumni 7.1 Blogs, Media, Podcasts 7.2 7.3 People 8 History

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The best residential college at Yale! 

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[edit] Why Stiles Rocks!

• Because we live so close to the gym, we stay fit and trim.
• Because we (used to) host Stiles-Morse Casino night rated by Rolling Stones magazine as one of the top 10 college parties of the year (until the State of Connecticut shut us down).

[edit] Ideas for Student Activities Committee (SAC) events?

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[edit] Intramurals

[edit] Masters

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  Master Stuart Schwartz
  Stephen Pitti  (2008 - present)
  

Professor Pitti, who was raised in Sacramento, California, and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1998, is the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican Americans, and Northern California(2003) and articles on Chicano history and historiography. He is currently working on two book projects: The World of Céasar Chávez (forthcoming, Yale University Press) and Leaving California: Race from the Golden State (in process).

He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, Western History, 20th-century immigration, civil rights, and related subjects. He currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies of Yale's American Studies Program. And he directs the Latina/o History Project, which explores ethnic Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latino histories in the United States, their links and divisions, their diversity, and their cultures and politics.

Most important he is the first Master of Ezra Stiles to also be an alum of Ezra Stiles having lived here as student. Finally the "young" residential college turns the corner

• Stuart Schwartz (2003 - 2008)
  

Master Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History. He teaches the history of colonial Latin America and of Brazil as well as courses in the Expansion of Europe and World history. His work on Brazilian slavery and plantations received the Bolton award for the best book in Latin American history in 1985. Master Schwartz was born in Springfield, MA and educated at Middlebury College (1962) and the Universidad Autónoma de México. He received an M.A. (1963) and a Ph.D. (1968) from Columbia University. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) as well as an honorary citizenship from the city of Salvador (Brazil) and a decoration as Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross, Brazil’s highest civilian decoration.

He was a presidential candidate of the American Historical Association. Before coming to Yale in 1996, he taught for many years at the University of Minnesota where he was chairman of the Department of History and Director of the Center for Early Modern History and of the Program in Latin American Studies. He became Master of Ezra Stiles in 2003. As an historian, Master Schwartz has always been fascinated by the interplay of social, cultural, and economic forces. That theme has guided much of the research that resulted in over a dozen books dealing with law and formation of state bureaucracy, slavery and race relations, and the struggle against slavery. He was also an editor for the multivolume Cambridge History of Native American Peoples. At present he is completing a book on the popular origins of religious tolerance in the age of the Inquisition in the Hispanic world, and he is researching a book on the social history of Caribbean hurricanes. He has two children, a daughter Alison who works in the fashion photography industry in New York and a son, Lee who is working in New Zealand. He is married to Associate Master, Prof. María Jordán.

• Paul Fry (1996 - 2002)
  

Paul H. Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. D. from Harvard. His primary areas of specialization are British romanticism, the history of literary criticism, and contemporary literary theory. The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (Yale, 1980) received the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society in America. Subsequent books are: The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (Yale, 1984), William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice (Routledge, 1990), A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing (Stanford, 1996), and ed., The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Bedford-St. Martins, 1999). He is at work on a book to be entitled "Wordsworth and the Anthropology of Lyric." He was Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department for nine years and is a longstanding member of the Committee on the Future of the Whitney Humanities Center. He has served for fifteen years on the Region II Committee for the Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities. An amateur art historian, he publishes frequently in ArtNews. He wants to write a book on memory and to begin painting again.

• Traugott Lawler (1986 - 1995 and 2002-2003)
  

INTERESTS: Middle English especially Chaucer and Langland, Medieval Latin. I am currently working on my share (Volume 4) of the Penn Commentary of Piers Plowman, and on the second volume of “Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--The One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1980. (with Ralph Hanna, completing work begun by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt) Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves. vol. 1, Texts. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

--“The Pardon Formula in Piers Plowman: Its Ubiquity, Its Binary Shape, Its Silent Middle Term,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000), 117-52.

--“The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002), 85-117.

--“Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining moral heroism in the Canterbury Tales,” in New Readings of Chaucer’s Poetry, ed. Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard ( Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003), 75-90. 

• Heinrich von Staden  (1980 - 1986)

• Hans Wilhelm Frei (1972 - 1980)

• A. Bartlett Giamatti  (1970 - 1972)

• Richard B. Sewall (1961 - ?)
  

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• Jennifer Wood (2002 - present)

Dean Jennifer Wood is originally from the delightful city of New Haven, Connecticut. She has traveled around the world twice, but somehow ended up where she started. Appointed dean of Ezra Stiles College in 2002, she holds degrees in English from the University of Connecticut, Education from Harvard University and African Studies from Yale University. She is currently writing her dissertation for a Ph.D. in African-American and American Studies, also at Yale University. Her dissertation is centered on sexual politics in the literature and visual art of the Harlem Renaissance, with a special emphasis on how Marxist and Freudian fetishism operates within those cultural productions. She has taught seminars focusing on the Harlem Renaissance and Toni Morrison. Dean Wood has previously served as an assistant dean, housing officer, house tutor and summer proctor at Harvard College. She has also participated in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program twice, including the voyage that MTV's “Road Rules” filmed, and served as a graduate affiliate in Calhoun College for four years. She resides on the ninth floor of the tower with her much-calmer-than-she-used-to-be Labrador retriever, Gaia. Dean Wood is available to talk about academic or personal topics and concerns, academic regulations, major and career choices, housing, campus resources and well, just about anything. She lives, works and eats in the college in order to be available to you. Please stop by her office hours, call or e-mail her.

• Susan Rieger  (  - 2002)

• Herbert Atherton  (? - ?)
  

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[edit] People

• L. Paul Bremer III, director and proconsul of post-war Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority (ES '63)
• Dan Froomkin, political columnist and blogger, The Washington Post (ES '85)
• David Gergen, presidential advisor and political commentator (ES '63)
• Linda Jewell, diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (ES '75)
• Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Development Corp. (ES '71)
• Robert Kaiser, associate editor, The Washington Post (ES '64)
• Lloyd Kaufman, director, producer, and owner of Troma Entertainment. (ES ~'70)
• Mark Linn-Baker, actor
• Edward Norton, actor (ES '91)
• Alexandra Robbins, journalist and author (ES '98)
• Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (ES '78)
• Bob Woodward, asst. managing editor and political reporter, The Washington Post (ES '65)
• Norwood S. Wilner, attorney and anti-tobacco crusader from Florida (ES '70)

[edit] History

Ezra Stiles College is named to honor the memory of Ezra Stiles, Yale Class of 1746, an eminent American theologian, lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, who served as the seventh President of Yale from 1778 to 1795. The distinguished historian Edmund Morgan characterized Ezra Stiles as follows: “Although he became the most learned man of his generation in America, he remained more interested in what he did not know than in what he did. New ideas swept him from infidelity to faith, from loyalty for Great Britain to pride in the United States, from conservative constitutionalism to radical democracy. He never stopped reaching for the next thought.”

The cornerstone of the College was laid on Alumni Day, 1961, and students took up residence in September, 1962. The College was dedicated the following December 7. The purchase of the land—previously occupied by Hillhouse High School and Commercial High School—from the City of New Haven was made possible by a grant from John Hay Whitney, Yale Class of 1926, and the construction of the College by a grant from Paul Mellon, Yale Class of 1929, and the Old Dominion Foundation.

The College, considered by many architecture critics a masterpiece of American architecture, is built of rubble masonry with buildings and a tower in the style of pre-Gothic Tuscan towers such as still exist in the medieval Italian hill town of San Gimignano.

The architect was Eero Saarinen, who did not live to see the buildings completed. “Somehow, the architecture had to declare them as colleges, not dormitories,” he wrote in describing the plans. “We have made the buildings polygonal—their shapes derived in order to provide the diversity of student rooms, to answer the needs of the site, and to give variety and sequence of spatial experiences in the courts. We conceived of these colleges as citadels of earthy, monolithic masonry—buildings where masonry walls would be dominant and whose interiors of stone, oak, and plaster would carry out the spirit of strength and simplicity. Since handicraft methods are anachronistic, we found a new technological method for making these walls: these are ‘modern' masonry walls made without masons.”

The buildings of Ezra Stiles and Morse are arranged in roughly circular form around asymmetrical courts, into which they open from several levels. When first seen from the outside, they create the impression that the interior must be dark and gloomy, because of what appears to be minimal fenestration. Closer examination reveals, however, that the rooms are flooded with light and air. The initial impression of darkness is due to the fact that the windows and walls do not form the conventional patterns found in older structures. The changing configuration of lights and shadows, colorings and shadings constitutes one of the singular attributes of this architectural style and contributes to its strength, variety, and texture. The architect has provided a multitude of vistas, with each view outside the colleges enclosed in a frame of other buildings. The resulting spatial illusion generates a simultaneous sense of immediacy and distance.

In the walls and standing in the courtyards are a number of molded concrete figures by the Sicilian sculptor, Costantino Nivola. Although non-representational, these sculptures invite interpretation, either profound or frivolous. Over the entry doors and in the dining hall are massive iron lighting fixtures designed by Oliver Andrews, a California sculptor.

The Dining Hall is characterized by strong verticals of stone and glass, soaring thirty feet high in the interior. It has a raised stage suitable for theatrical performances, concerts, movies, poetry readings, and symposia.

In the archives of the University Library are President Stiles's office cabinet, two walnut chairs (presented by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness), a grandfather's clock which he imported from England, and Mrs. Stiles's wedding fan. His favorite rocking chair, the gift of Malcolm D. Aldrich, is in President Levin's office. Two brass candlesticks and a tilt table that belonged to Ezra Stiles are in the Master's house. Gifts to the Library of the College have included miscellaneous Stiles letters and manuscripts, his “Plan of a University” and “Inaugural Lecture,” his Yale College diploma, and books on Yale from the library of George H. Nettleton. Dean Keller's copy of Samuel King's 1771 portrait of Stiles hangs in the Master's House. In the Fellows' Lounge hangs a photographic copy of Samuel King's 1782 portrait of President Stiles's friend, Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal, as well as a photographic copy of King's portrait of Ezra Stiles.

Coat of Arms:Sable, a fess engrailed, fretty of the field gold and sable, between three fleurs-de-lis gold and a border gold. The arms were designed by Theodore Sizer from those of Ezra Stiles, whose right to bear them was confirmed at the College of Heralds in 1785.

China:The china shows, on a white field within a dark blue border, the arms of Ezra Stiles, Morse, Yale College, and the University abutting upon the sides of a square enclosing four blue Y's. This, too, was designed by Theodore Sizer.

Mace: A walking stick which belonged to Ezra Stiles, dated 1772, is carried by the College in ceremonial processions.