George Levesque
Senior Associate Dean, Yale College; Dean of Academic Affairs, Yale College; Lecturer in History
Office:
SSS 30
Phone:
203-432-8977
Fields of interest:
18th & 19th century US cultural, intellectual, and religious history; history of American colleges & universities
Bio:
George Levesque, Ph.D. (Columbia), is Dean of Academic Affairs in Yale College and lecturer in history. He supervises the fourteen residential college deans and chairs the Committee on Honors and Academic Standing (CHAS), which oversees the academic regulations of the College and adjudicates petitions for exceptions to those regulations. The committee also supervises student promotions and degree clearances, and it determines student honors, prizes, and distinctions at Commencement.
Levesque also serves as Secretary for Yale’s chapter (Alpha of Connecticut) of Phi Beta Kappa, is a member of the Faculty Committee on Athletics, and serves as the university’s Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA.
Levesque teaches courses on religious thought in America and the history of American colleges and universities. His research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural history in the United States. Recent articles include “Elisha Williams” in the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.