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Trustees of the Center

Carl H. Pforzheimer III (Chairman), Manager, Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co. LLC, New York, NY

Geoffrey G. Harpham (President), Director, National Humanities Center

Peter A. Benoliel (Vice Chairman), Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation, Conshohocken, PA

Steven Marcus (Vice Chairman), George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Columbia University

Patricia Meyer Spacks (Vice Chairman), Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita, University of Virginia

John F. Adams (Secretary), General Partner, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL

Merril M. Halpern (Treasurer), Chairman Emeritus of Charterhouse Group International, New York, NY


James H. Averill, Retired Partner, Wellington Management Company, Radnor, PA

Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond

Erskine B. Bowles, President, The University of North Carolina

Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of American History, Columbia University

Richard H. Brodhead, President, Duke University

Cees J. de Bruin, Chairman, Indofin Group, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, Washington University in St. Louis

Richard A. Eisner, Senior Advisor, Eisner LLP, New York, NY

Frances Ferguson, Mary Elizabeth Garrett Professor in Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Frances Daly Fergusson, President Emerita, Vassar College

Catherine Gallagher, Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean, Harvard College

Michael Ann Holly, Director of Research and Academic Programs, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

William C. Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University

Philip S. Khoury, Ford International Professor of History, Associate Provost, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Shepard Krech III, Professor of Anthropology; Director, The Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University

Thomas Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

Abby S. Milstein, Partner, Constantine Cannon LLP, New York, NY

William M. Moore, Jr., Director, Franklin Street Partners, Chapel Hill, NC

Patricia R. Morton, Partner and Board Director, Franklin Street Partners, Chapel Hill, NC

Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck, Author, Greenwich, CT

Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago

Robert C. Post, Dean, Yale Law School

Bruce Redford, University Professor and Professor of Art History and English, Boston University

Lawrence R. Ricciardi, Senior Advisor: IBM Corp., Jones Day, and Lazard Fréres & Co., LLC, Greenwich, CT

Cara W. Robertson, Independent Scholar and Attorney, Santa Monica, CA

Sally Dalton Robinson, Charlotte, NC

Joshua Ruch, Managing Partner, RHO Capital Partners, New York, NY

Thomas Scherer, Deputy General Counsel, American International Group, Inc., New York, NY

Robert B. Strassler, Independent Scholar and Businessman, Great Barrington, MA

Mark E. Thierfelder, Partner, Dechert, LLP, New York, NY

Jonathan G. Weiss, Co-Head, Investment Banking & Capital Markets, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, New York, NY

Herbert S. Winokur, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capricorn Holdings, Inc., Greenwich, CT

Pauline R. Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY





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