Trustees of the National Humanities Center
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
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 *
Presidential Research Professor, Baker Nord Institute for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH
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
* Fellow
● Executive Committee
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
* Fellow