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Remembered

James Scott ’67PhD (left), the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and professor emeritus of anthropology, died on July 19 on his farm in Durham, Connecticut. He was 87 years old. Once described by the New York Times as “the unofficial founder of the field of ‘resistance studies,’” Scott’s work examined the interplay between government action and marginalized groups. A professor at Yale from 1976 until his retirement in 2021, Scott founded the university’s program in agrarian studies.

Jerome Pollitt ’57, the Sterling Professor of Classical Archaeology and the History of Art, Emeritus, died on April 24. He was 89. Pollitt, an authority on ancient Greek art, got his PhD at Columbia before returning to Yale to teach in 1962. During his 37-year career at Yale, he chaired both the classics and history of art departments, and he served as dean of the Graduate School from 1986 to 1991. He is survived by his wife, Susan Matheson, the curator of ancient art at the Art Gallery.

Appointed

Richard Brodhead ’68, ’72PhD, former dean of Yale College and former president of Duke University, is adding another line to his curriculum vitae: interim director of the Yale Center for British Art. Brodhead started on July 1; he will serve until a new director is chosen to succeed Courtney Martin ’09PhD, who left to become executive director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Courtney Jaworski has been appointed the Mark T. Young ’68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, succeeding David Shoehalter. Jaworski, who was an All-America runner as a student at Penn, has been director of cross country and head track and field coach at Smith College since May 2021. Before that, he coached at Dartmouth for seven years; he has won Coach of the Year honors in both the Ivy League and the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference.

Honored

The Yale Alumni Association will award its highest honor, the Yale Medal, to five alumni in a ceremony this fall. The awardees: Robert G. “Rob” Greenly ’83MBA, a volunteer for the School of Management, the Yale Club of Boston, and the Yale Day of Service; Constance L. Royster ’72, an inaugural member of the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors and a volunteer in groups across the university; Elizabeth Sullivan ’74, ’76MA, who cochaired the Yale Day of Service in 2020 and 2021; Michael B. Tom ’83MD, former chair of both the School of Medicine Alumni Fund and the Yale Alumni Fund; and William D. White ’73, ’78Div, who has directed the Alumni Schools Committee in Beijing for 40 years.