National Council on the Humanities

Rolena Adorno is the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

Rolena Adorno is the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Her books on Colonial Latin American literary and cultural history, including The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative; De Guancane a Macondo: estudios de literatura hispanoamericana; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, and Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru, have been awarded prizes by the Modern Language Association, the American Historical Association, the Western Historical Association, and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She holds an Honorary Professorship at La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and is an Honorary Associate of the Hispanic Society of America. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born and raised in an Iowa farming family of German descent, Ms. Adorno holds a B.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.A.T. from the University of Hartford, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Adele Logan Alexander is an adjunct professor of history at George Washington University, where she has taught since 1983. She teaches classes on the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and African-American women. She has also taught at Howard University, University of Maryland-College Park, and Trinity College. Her research focuses on the black Atlantic world, African-American history, and family history. In addition to numerous articles, she has authored two books, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879, and Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926. The latter book won the non-fiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2003 the African American Historical and Genealogical Society recognized her contributions to the study of family history with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution. Ms. Alexander received a B.A. from Radcliffe College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Howard University. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Albert J. Beveridge is a founding member and Senior Council of the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.

Albert J. Beveridge is a founding member and Senior Council of the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. and has served as General Counsel of the American Historical Association for more than 15 years. He was a founding member of the National Trust for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition, Mr. Beveridge serves as a lecturer in history at Johns Hopkins University and as Distinguished Historian in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins, and his J.D. from Harvard University.(Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Allison Blakely is a Professor of European and Comparative History, and the George and Joyce Wein Professor of African American Studies at Boston University. He joined the Boston University faculty in 2001 after teaching for thirty years at Howard University. He is the author of Blacks in the Dutch World: Racial Imagery and Modernization; Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought (a winner of an American Book Award in 1988); several articles on Russian populism; and others on various European aspects of the Black Diaspora. His interest in comparative history has centered on comparative populism and on the historical evolution of color prejudice. He is the immediate past President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and serves on its governing Senate and the Editorial Board of its journal, The American Scholar. Mr. Blakely was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam, was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1962-63, and an Andrew Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1976-77. He received the Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award from Howard University in 1992. Mr. Blakely received his B.A. from the University of Oregon and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Constance M. Carroll has served as Chancellor of the San Diego Community College District since 2004. Prior to becoming Chancellor, Dr.

Constance M. Carroll has served as Chancellor of the San Diego Community College District since 2004. Prior to becoming Chancellor, Dr. Carroll served as president of three community colleges in California and also worked with two universities. Ms. Carroll's board service has included the American Council on Education, American Association of Community Colleges, League for Innovation, California Council for the Humanities, Maine Humanities Council, NEH Panel on Museums and Historical Societies, and the Community College Humanities Association. She received her B.A. in Humanities from Duquesne University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Pittsburgh. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a professor of central Eurasian studies, history, and India studies as well as an adjunct professor of religious studies and an affiliated faculty member of ancient studies, medieval studies, and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is a frequent presenter at international conferences and has written three books: Evil, Good, and Gender; Conflict and Cooperation; and Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and has been awarded grants from the American Academy of Religion and the Social Science Research Council. He has served as a consultant for UNESCO and the U.S. Department of Education. Mr. Choksy received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Cathy N. Davidson is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

Cathy N. Davidson is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. She was Duke's first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, serving in that position until 2006. She is co-founder of HASTAC, the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, a network of educators dedicated to new models of learning for the digital age. In addition, Professor Davidson is past President of the American Studies Association, former editor of the journal American Literature, and co-directs the annual HASTAC/ MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions. She received her B.A. in English and Philosophy from Elmhurst College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Dawn Ho Delbanco is an adjunct professor of East Asian art at Columbia University and, since 1991, has taught Western and Asian art in the Columbia University Core Curriculum. She is the author of Art from Ritual: Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and has published on various aspects of Chinese art, including painting, woodblock prints, ceramics, and ritual bronzes. She has lectured at many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Asia Society, and the Yale Art Gallery. She has consulted for a documentary film on the National Palace Museum in Taipei and has curated an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum. Ms. Delbanco received an A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Jane Marie (Jamie) Doggett is a County Commissioner in Meagher County, Montana. Educated to be a teacher, she has devoted herself to family ranching and to civic and political leadership that have benefited the public humanities in Montana and throughout the nation. Ms. Doggett has chaired both the Montana Committee for the Humanities and the National Board of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. She is a recipient of the Montana Governor's Humanities Award. Ms. Doggett earned a B.A. from Montana State University and teacher certification from Western Montana College. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

Paula Barker Duffy is the former Director of the University of Chicago Press, the nation's largest university press.

Paula Barker Duffy is the former Director of the University of Chicago Press, the nation's largest university press. She previously served as publisher of the Free Press, best known for its books in the social sciences and public affairs, and as vice president of its parent company, Simon and Schuster, New York. Ms. Duffy currently serves on the boards of the Great Books Foundation and Valid Sources, Inc., and advises the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. She holds a B.A. in French Literature from Smith College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago-Divinity School.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago-Divinity School. She has written numerous essays and authored and/or edited twenty books, including Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy and Augustine and the Limits of Politics. Ms. Elshtain is the recipient of nine honorary degrees and received the 2002 Frank J. Goodnow Award, the American Political Science Association's highest award for distinguished service to the profession. Beginning in Fall 2006, she will serve a three-year appointment as the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. Ms. Elshtain received a B.A. and M.A. from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. (Term expires January 26, 2010.)

Gary D. Glenn is a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of political science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of 30 articles and book chapters and has delivered more than 50 papers at professional conferences, as well as given numerous lectures in the United States and abroad. He has written on American political thought, the history of political philosophy, and religion in both the Constitution and in modern political philosophy. Among his many awards, he has received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and a Presidential Teaching Professorship from Northern Illinois University, as well as the Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award from The American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha. Mr. Glenn received a B.A. from Loras College and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College. He has written numerous books and essays including Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, which both won the Lincoln Prize and the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize, making him the first double Lincoln Laureate. His other awards include the American Library Association Choice Award, the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History, and the Dean's Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly Dean of Templeton Honors College and the Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern University. Mr. Guelzo received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.Div. from Philadelphia Theological Seminary. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

Mary Habeck is an associate professor of strategic studies in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Habeck is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and previously served as an associate professor of history at Yale University. She has written or edited numerous books and articles, including Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 and Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror. Ms Habeck received a B.A. from Ohio State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

David Michael Hertz is a professor of comparative literature and an adjunct professor of American studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of three books, including Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Ives and Frank Lloyd Wright in Word and Form. Mr. Hertz is a recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University and a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts grant recipient. A composer and pianist, he teaches annual undergraduate colloquia on music and culture in the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University. In addition to co-founding the Center for Comparative Arts at Indiana University, he has co-organized several international conferences on the sense of time in world poetry. Mr. Hertz received a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from New York University. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Marvin Krislov is the 14th president and a professor of politics at Oberlin College. Previously, he was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan where he led the University’s legal team in the 2003 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the consideration of student body diversity in university admissions. Prior to entering academic life, Mr. Krislov served as Acting Solicitor and the Deputy Solicitor for National Operations at the U.S. Department of Labor, as Associate Counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President, and as a Federal prosecutor at the Justice Department on cases involving racial or religious violence as well as police brutality. He taught law at the University of Michigan Law School, sat on the Board of Aldermen for New Haven, Connecticut, and also taught law at George Washington University. Mr. Krislov received bachelor’s and law degrees from Yale University, where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. As a Rhodes Scholar, he studied at the University of Oxford’s Magdalen College, where he received an M.A. degree in modern history. He clerked for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Robert Martin is Professor Emeritus in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University, where he was Professor of Library Science and Lillian Bradshaw Endowed Chair until his retirement in 2008. He has authored, co-authored, or edited seven books and numerous articles, including Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513–1900 and Scholarly Communication in an Electronic Environment: Issues for Research Libraries. Mr. Martin has served as Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin, Texas, and Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, in Washington, D.C. In 2008 he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest civilian honor conferred in the United States. Mr. Martin received a B.A. from Rice University, an M.L.S. from North Texas State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

Wilfred M. McClay is a professor of history and the SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America (1994), which received the Organization of American Historians' 1995 Merle Curti Award for best book in American intellectual history. His honors include the John Templeton Foundation award for distinguished teaching and scholarship. Mr. McClay has also taught at Georgetown University, Tulane University, and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program of Princeton University. Mr. McClay received a B.A. from St. John's College and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

Christopher Merrill is the director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.  A poet, essayist, journalist, and translator, Mr. Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Waterand Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has also published translations of Aleš Debeljak’s Anxious Moments and The City of the Child, edited several volumes, and published five books of nonfiction, The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee, Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars, Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain, and The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War. Prior to joining the University of Iowa, he held the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of Holy Cross. In 2008, he led the initiative that resulted in the selection of Iowa City as a UNESCO City of Literature, a part of the Creative Cities Network.  Mr. Merrill received a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.A. from the University of Washington. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Ricardo J. Quinones is professor emeritus and the Josephine Olps Weeks Professor of comparative literature at Claremont McKenna College and the director for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. He has authored six books, including The Renaissance Discovery of Time, Dante, The Changes of Cain, and most recently, Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia. He has held academic positions as professor or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, the City University of New York, and UC Irvine. He has served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, chair of the MLA's executive committee on comparative literature, and member of the California Council for the Humanities. Mr. Quinones received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2010.)

Carol M. Swain is a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University Law School. She has written five books, including Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress, which won the Woodrow Wilson prize in 1994, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, and has most recently published Debating Immigration. Widely recognized for her expertise in race, immigration, black leadership, and evangelical politics, Ms. Swain provides commentary to major networks and programs such as CNN, ABC News, NPR, BBC Radio, and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Ms. Swain received a B.A. from Roanoke College, an M.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.L.S. from Yale Law School. (Term expires January 26, 2014.)

Martha Wagner Weinberg is a consultant who has worked extensively with non-profit entities on issues of policy, strategy, leadership and program design.

Martha Wagner Weinberg is a consultant who has worked extensively with non-profit entities on issues of policy, strategy, leadership and program design. She previously served as Chief of Staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and was Vice President for Project Management and Chief of Staff at Partners Healthcare System at its founding in 1995. Ms. Weinberg advised the Rappaport Charitable Foundation when it established Harvard's Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and Suffolk University's Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Policy. Formerly a professor of political science at MIT, she is the author of Managing the State, co-editor with Walter Dean Burnham of American Politics and Public Policy, and the author of articles on leadership in the private and public sectors. Ms. Wagner received her Ph.D. from Harvard, her M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and her B.A. from Smith. (Term expires January 26, 2016.)

Kenneth R. Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer of Hudson Institute. A political theorist by training who has written on the history of early modern philosophy, he has taught at Claremont McKenna College and Georgetown University. Mr. Weinstein has written widely on international affairs for leading publications in the United States, Europe, and Asia including, most recently, "The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror" in The West at War. He has been decorated with a knighthood in Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication as a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Weinstein received a B.A. from the University of Chicago, a D.E.A. from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)

Jay Winik is one of the nation's leading public historians. Mr. Winik’s many writings include the award-winning New York Times best-seller April 1865: The Month that Saved America, which is now part of the distinguished “Modern Classic” series and was the basis for an Emmy-nominated History Channel special, as well as a two-person play at Ford’s Theater that he wrote and starred in; his most recent book, The Great Upheaval, was also a New York Times bestseller and both a USA Today and Financial Times best book of the year. He is a regular reviewer of history for the Wall Street Journal, a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review section, and provides historical commentary to such major network and cable shows from PBS to ABC to Fox news as well as many documentary specials. An elected Fellow of the Society of American Historians, he currently serves on boards and advisory councils for the the American Heritage Magazine, Civil War Preservation Trust, the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the James Madison Book Award, Ford’s Theatre, and The Lincoln Forum. He is also currently advising the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and was recently a juror for the George Washington Book Prize. Mr. Winik received a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. (Term expires January 26, 2012.)