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Yale Officers: Jonathan Edwards College

About

For collections pertaining to Jonathan Edwards College, please visit Archives at Yale and search for "Johnathan Edwards College".

Jonathan Edwards College was established in 1933. For more information, please visit the Jonathan Edwards College home page.

Head of College

Prior to 2016 the chief administrative officer of each of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges was given the honorific title Master, derived from the Latin magister and in common usage in the residential colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. In 2016 the Yale Corporation voted to replace that honorific title with Head of College.

Robert Dudley French (1930 - 1953)

Stuart Robert Brinkley  (1951 - 1952)

Frank Edward Brown  (1953 - 1956)

William Huse Dunham, Jr. (1956 - 1961)

Beekman Cox Cannon  (1961 - 1974)

Jacques E. Henri Guicharnaud (1967 - 1968)

Rosemary A. Stevens (1974 - 1975)

E. J. Boell (1976 - 1977)

Helen Catherine Skinner (1977 - 1982)

Frederic Lawrence Holmes  (1982 - 1987)

Bernard Lytton (1987 - 1997)

Gary Lee Haller  (1997 - 2008)

Penelope Laurans (2009 - 2016)

W. Mark Saltzman (2016 - 2022)

Paul North (2022 - Present)

 

Dean

The Dean serves as the chief academic officer in Yale's undergraduate residential college system.

Joseph Toy Curtiss  (1963 - 1965)

Robert Earl Kuehn  (1965 - 1973)

James Malachy Morris  (1971 - 1972)  acting

James Malachy Morris (1974 - 1975)

Williamson Murray (1975-1976) acting

Mark Biggio Ryan  (1976 - 1996)

Penelope Laurans  (1986 - 1986)  acting

Christos Cabolis (1996 - 2002)

John Mangan (2002 - 2006)

Kyle Farley (2006 - 2012)

Conor Frailey (2012 - 2012)  acting

Joseph Spooner (2012 - 2016)

Christina Ferando (2016 - Present)