David Blackbourn
Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN
* Dennis M. Campbell
(Chair, Education Programs Committee), Headmaster Emeritus, Woodberry Forest School; Durham, NC
Willo Carey
Former Broadcast Executive, WHYY; St. Davids, PA
William D. Cohan
Author and Journalist; Special Correspondent, Vanity Fair; New York, NY
Joy Connolly
President, American Council of Learned Societies; New York, NY
Margo Drakos
Managing Director, DRK Foundation; Southern Pines, NC
David Folkenflik
Media Correspondent, National Public Radio; Montclair, NJ
Pamela Hendrickson
Vice Chairman, The Riverside Company; New York, NY
* Rishi Jaitly
(Board Chair), Senior Advisor, OpenAI; Founder, Virginia Tech Institute for Leadership in Technology; Blacksburg, VA
* William C. Jordan
(At-Large), Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University; Princeton, NJ
* Blair LM Kelley
(Ex Officio), President and Director, National Humanities Center; Durham, NC
* Karen R. Lawrence
(Board Secretary), President, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens; San Marino, CA
* Vincent LoVoi
(Board Treasurer; Chair, Business Committee) Managing Partner, Mimosa Tree Capital Partners; Tulsa, OK
Jane O. Newman
Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine; Irvine, CA
Vincent E. Price
President, Duke University; Durham, NC
Carol Quillen
President, National Trust for Historic Preservation; Washington, DC
James Rhee
Owner and Author, red helicopter; Howard University Johnson Chair of Entrepreneurship; MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer; Newton, MA
Harriet Ritvo
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA
* Peter J. Rogers Jr.
(Chair, Audit Committee), Board Chairman and CEO, B4Checkin Ltd.; Halifax, Nova Scotia
* Ann Wierda Rowland
(Chair, Scholarly Programs Committee), Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas; Kansas City, MO
* Thomas J. Scherer
(Vice Chair), General Counsel, Aegon Asset Management; Chicago, IL
* Lisa Schroeder
(Chair, Institutional Advancement Committee), President, The Pittsburgh Foundation; Pittsburgh, PA
* John Sherer
(Chair, Public Engagement Committee), Spangler Family Director, UNC Press; Chapel Hill, NC
Joan Hinde Stewart
President Emerita, Hamilton College; Durham, NC
Héctor Tobar
Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, English, and Literary Journalism, University of California at Irvine; Irvine, CA
Ben Vinson III
President, Howard University; Washington, DC
Raymond J. Wiacek
Partner, Jones Day; Washington, DC
Yolonda Y. Wilson
Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics, Philosophy, and African American Studies, St. Louis University; St. Louis, MO
* Michael Witmore
(Chair, Knowledge Management and Digital Services Committee), Consultant, Director Emeritus of Folger Shakespeare Library
* Executive Committee
National Humanities Center Statement of Diversity Values
Trustees Emeriti
- John F. Adams, Private Investor
- James H. Averill, Retired Partner, Wellington Management Company
- Elizabeth Birkelund, Author
- Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor Emerita, Princeton University
- W. Robert Connor, Senior Advisor, The Teagle Foundation, Inc.
- Andrew Delbanco*, Department of English, Columbia University
- Blair Effron, Centerview Partners LLC
- Frances Ferguson*, Department of English, University of Chicago
- Frances Daly Fergusson, President Emerita, Vassar College
- Catherine Gallagher*, Department of English, University of California
- Geoffrey Harpham, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
- Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emeritus, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
- Philip S. Khoury, Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Shepard Krech III*, Professor Emeritus, Brown University
- Thomas W. Laqueur*, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
- Richard Levy, President, H.B.D. Inc.
- Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
- William M. (Bill) Moore Jr., Partner, Franklin Street Partners
- Patricia R. Morton, Founder, PRM Advisors, LLC
- Robert D. Newman, Former President and Director, National Humanities Center
- Francis Oakley*, Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus, Williams College
- John C. O’Hara Jr., Former Managing Director, Rockefeller Capital Management
- Carl Pforzheimer III, Manager, Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. LLC
- Lawrence R. Ricciardi, Senior Advisor: IBM Corp., Jones Day, Lazard Frères & Co., LLC
- Cara W. Robertson*, Independent Scholar and Attorney
- Sally Dalton Robinson, Civic Leader and Philanthropist
- Joshua Ruch, Managing Partner, RHO Capital Partners
- Benno Schmidt Jr., Chairman, Avenues: The World School
- Isaac Shapiro, Esq., Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Patricia Meyer Spacks*, Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita, University of Virginia
- Robert Strassler, Independent Scholar and Businessman
- Mark E. Thierfelder, Partner and Chair, Global Corporate and Securities Practice, Dechert LLP
- Jonathan G. Weiss, CEO of Corporate and Investment Banking (retired), Wells Fargo & Company
- A. Morris Williams Jr., President, Williams & Company
- Herbert Winokur Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capricorn Holdings, Inc.
- Pauline R. Yu, Former President, American Council of Learned Societies
* NHC Fellow