Faculty Retirement Tributes (2025)
As is tradition in the FAS, at the final Yale College Faculty Meeting of the academic year, FAS Dean Steven Wilkinson read tributes to retiring faculty, recognizing their long-time service to the university.
Tributes written and edited by Penelope Laurens, Natalie DeVaull-Robichaud, Michaela Herrmann, and Lisa Turner.
Retirement Tributes
Sybil Alexandrov
Senior Lector II in Spanish and Portuguese
John Bargh
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Professor of Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Science and of Management
Seungja K. Choi
Senior Lector II in East Asian Languages and Literatures
Paul Forscher
Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Alvin K. Klevorick
John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
Richard Lalli
Professor Adjunct of Music
F. Kenneth Nelson
Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Stuart B. Schwartz
George Burton Adams Professor of History
Timothy Snyder
Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Professor of Global Affairs
Peter Swenson
Charlotte Marion Saden Professor of Political Science
Margherita Tortora
Senior Lector II in Spanish and Portuguese
In Memoriam
Matthew Eisaman
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences