David Blackbourn, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
David Bromwich, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Nancy Cable, Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC
* 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
* J. Porter Durham Jr. (Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee), Managing Partner and General Counsel, Global Endowment Management, LP, Charlotte, NC
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Peter Hans, President, University of North Carolina Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
* Pamela Hendrickson (Chair, Audit Committee), COO & Vice Chairman, Strategic Initiatives, The Riverside Company
Rishi Jaitly, CEO, Times Bridge, Charlottesville, VA
* William C. Jordan (At-Large), Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Karen R. Lawrence, President, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Richard Levy, President, H.B.D. Inc., Greensboro, NC
Vincent LoVoi, Managing Partner, Mimosa Tree Capital Partners, Tulsa, OK
* Jane O. Newman (Chair, Public Engagement Committee), Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
* Robert D. Newman (Board President), Director, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Vincent E. Price, President, Duke University, Durham, NC
Carol Quillen, President, 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, Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas
* Joshua Ruch (Board Vice-Chair), Managing Partner, RHO Capital Partners, New York, NY
* Thomas J. Scherer (Board Secretary), General Counsel, Aegon Asset Management, Chicago, IL
* Lisa Schroeder (Chair, Institutional Advancement Committee), President, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
* Joan Hinde Stewart (Chair, Scholarly Programs Committee), President Emerita, Hamilton College, Durham, NC
Mark E. Thierfelder, Partner and Chair, Global Corporate and Securities Practice, Dechert LLP, New York, NY
* Ben Vinson III (Board Chair; Chair, Management Development Committee), Provost and Executive Vice President, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Bruce D. VonCannon, Managing Director/Responsible Officer, Vanheel Management Ltd., Hong Kong
* Raymond J. Wiacek (Board Treasurer; Chair, Business Committee), Partner, Jones Day, Washington, DC
A. Morris Williams Jr., President, Williams & Company, West Conshohocken, PA
Michael Witmore, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
* Names with asterisk denote Executive Committee members.
Trustees Emeriti
- John F. Adams, Private Investor
- James H. Averill, Retired Partner, Wellington Management Company
- Peter A. Benoliel, Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation
- 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
- Merril Halpern, Chairman Emeritus, Charterhouse Group, Inc.
- Geoffrey Harpham, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
- Robert Hollander, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University
- Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emeritus, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
- Philip S. Khoury, Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Shepard Krech III, Professor Emeritus, Brown University
- Thomas W. Laqueur, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
- William Leuchtenburg, Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
- Assad Meymandi, MD, PHD, DLFAPA, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- William M. (Bill) Moore Jr., Partner, Franklin Street Partners
- Patricia R. Morton, Founder, PRM Advisors, LLC
- Francis Oakley, Professor of the History of Ideas and President Emeritus, Williams College
- John C. O’Hara, 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
- 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
- Herbert Winokur Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capricorn Holdings, Inc.
- Pauline R. Yu, Former President, American Council of Learned Societies