Saybrook College Residential Fellows

The following 4 individuals are Saybrook College’s Residential Fellows, who live among the students in Saybrook, can often be found eating in the Dining Hall, exercising in the gym, or working with students around the college.  Please don’t hesitate to ask them about anything Saybrook-, Yale-, or New Haven-related!

 

 

Keely Orgeman

Keely Orgeman

Dr. Keely Orgeman is the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the department at the Yale University Art Gallery. She previously held other curatorial positions at the Gallery, most recently as the Alice and Allan Kaplan Associate Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture.

Dr. Orgeman earned her doctorate at Boston University, where she curated the exhibition Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art (2008). Since arriving at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2008, she has contributed to numerous installations, publications, programs, and exhibitions, including as the curator of Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light (2017–18), the cocurator of Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look (2022), and the cocurator of Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space (2023–24), a project co-organized by the artist. Dr. Orgeman has served as a curatorial advisor and guest editor for the New Haven–based arts program NXTHVN and an advisor for the Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence Program with the Gallery and Artspace New Haven. She is a current member of Yale’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces (CAPS) and Committee on Art Recognizing Enslavement (CARE). Her husband, Marshall Kibbey, is a rare books dealer, as well as a Resident Fellow at Saybrook College. 

Jenn Coughlan and Emily Yates

Jenn Coughlan and Emily Yates are excited to be Saybrook Fellows! Jenn is an assistant professor in Yale’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Emily is a librarian. When they’re not hitting the books, Jenn and Emily love hiking and discovering New England, cooking and baking up a storm in the Fellows’ Suite, and watching performance art of all types. You can often find them with their beloved and super fluffy dog, Clover.

Saybrook College Fellows and Associate Fellows are appointed directly by the Head of College and are distinguished Faculty, Staff, and Alumni of Yale University or other important individuals who contribute uniquely to New Haven and Yale University.  The Saybrook Fellows page contains a list of the Saybrook College Fellows along with their brief profiles, photos, and areas of interest.  If you are a current Saybrugian, please don’t hesitate to reach out to one of these individuals: they are eager and willing to speak about all things Yale-related and ready to help you in any way they possibly can.