David Blackbourn
Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Daniela Bleichmar
Professor of Art History and History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
* 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
* J. Porter Durham Jr.
Partner and Counsel, Global Endowment Management, LP, Charlotte, NC
David Folkenflik
Media Correspondent, National Public Radio, Montclair, NJ
* Pamela Hendrickson
(Chair, Audit Committee), Vice Chairman, The Riverside Company, New York, NY
* Rishi Jaitly
(Interim Board Chair; Chair, Public Engagement Committee), 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
* Karen R. Lawrence
(Board Secretary), President, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Vincent LoVoi
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 Emerita, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Harriet Ritvo
Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Peter J. Rogers Jr.
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
(Chair, Digital and Information Services Committee), General Counsel, Aegon Asset Management, Chicago, IL
* Lisa Schroeder
(Chair, Institutional Advancement Committee), President, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
John Sherer
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
(Board Treasurer; Chair, Business Committee), 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
Consultant and Director Emeritus, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
* 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
- John Searle, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
- 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, Senior Vice President and Head, Wealth and Investment Management, 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
* Fellow