NJ Council for the Humanities

 
 

The board (a portion is pictured here) is comprised of elected members and gubernatorial appointees.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

NJCH’s Board exercises important fiduciary, governance, and programmatic responsibilities and plays a central role in helping to raise public and private revenues. Members of the Board promote the Council within their communities and with elected officials.


BECOME A BOARD MEMBER

The New Jersey Council for the Humanities invites nominations of candidates for its Board of Trustees.

NJCH’s Board exercises important fiduciary, governance, and programmatic responsibilities and plays a central role in helping to raise public and private revenues. Board members promote NJCH with individuals and organizations in their communities, as well as with elected officials.

The Council seeks civic, academic, and business leaders and aims for a Board that is broadly reflective of the state’s cultural and geographic diversity.

For further information, please contact info@njhumanities.org or call 609-695-4838.

FORMER NJCH BOARD MEMBERS

Fred B. Adelson
Diogenes Allen
Clara Allen
Nila Aronow
Susan Artmann
Nahid Aslanbeigui
Cathy Bao Bean
Shane Berger
James J. Bildner
Brett Bonfield
David M. Bossman
Pauline G. Boykin
Barbara Broadwater
Robert Brown
Joanne B. Bullock
Jacqueline Burns
Michael J. Bzdak
Caroline Casagrande
Julie Micou Cerf
Jack Chance
Alice Chandler
Celia M. Chazelle
Thomas V. Chelius
Paula Chow
Robert Comstock
Angela Conrad
Bernard F. Conway
Robert P. Corman
Richard Couper
Timothy J. Crist
Genie Decou
Harry A. Devlin
Gloria H. Dickinson
Celia Dorantes Abalos
Minna Doskow
Barbara Y. Downs
Esther Dye
Margarita Echevarria, Esq
Flora M. Edwards
Harold Eickhoff
Frank N. Elliott
William Emerson
Robert Fagles
Seymour Feldman
Jeremiah S. Finch
Terri Finn
Sondra Fishinger
Robin Foster
Frederick R. Fralick
Lawrence Frymire
Eduardo Garcia
Nancy B. Gay
Richard Gigliotti
Michael Gimigliano
Barbara V. Graham
David Greenberg
Doug Greenberg
Linda R. Greenstein
Bruce Paul Grefe
Joyce Wilson Harley, Esq
Jacques Harlow
Mary S. Hartman
Gail C. Holian
Robert Hollander
Erna Hoover
Richard O. Hope
Shirley Horner
Barbara Thompson Howell
Ming Hsu
Kiki Jamieson, Ph.D.
Josephine B. Janifer
Olga Jimenez-Wagenheim
Richard Kamber
June Kapp
Avrum L. Katcher
Stanley Katz
Thomas H Kean, Jr.
Bernard F. Kenny Jr.
Jane Kenny
Kathryn L. Kimball
Cynthia Koch
Asela Laguna
Elpidio Laguna-Diaz
Leonard Lance
Stanton B. Langworthy
Penelope E. Lattimer
Jackson Lears
Larry Leive
Richard A. Levao
Cole Lewis
Jan Ellen Lewis
Peter Li
Harold G. Logan
Gordon MacInnes
Charles F. Main
Brian S. Malone
Margaret Marsh
Hubert D. Maultsby
Thomas G. McCain
Richard P. McCormick
Roger McDonough
Thomas P. McGough
Russell McIntyre
Madeline H. McWhinney
Stanley J. Menking
Alice E. Messing
Samuel C. Miller
Linda P. Morgan
Zachary M. Narrett
Robert G. Ottenhoff
Cynthia J. Paces
Nell Irvin Painter
Alan S. Painter
Rudolph J. Pasler
Ann C. Pearl
Cynthia A. Pellegrino
Bernard Peltz
Conrad Person
Kenneth E. Peterson
Bernard Picchi
Nancy S. Picchi
Judith Pinch
Richard Polton
Elenore C. Pritchard
Barry Qualls
Theodore Rabb
Dora Rak
Arnold Rampersad
Anne D. Rassweiler
William Reeder
Benjamin Rifkin
Michael Robertson
Linda M. A. Rodrigues
Joseph H. Rodriguez
Gloria Rojas
James W. Rooker
Marc Rosenberg
Kenneth Rosenthal
Michael J. Rust
Dorothy Salter
Walter T. Savage
Robert A. Scott
Elizabeth Seabrook
Mitchell Seltzer
Joseph J. Seneca
George L. Shinn
Troy Singleton
Calvin Skaggs
Leah Sloshberg
Valerie Smith
John H. Smith
Geraldine Smith-Wright
Rosa Soto
Debra Spruill
Thomas J. Stanton Jr.
Hamilton Stillwell
Edward D. Sullivan
Anthony Tillman
Adrian Tinsley
Patricia A. Tumulty
James F. Turk
Christabel K. Vartanian
Marilouise Venditti, MD
Paul G. Viall Jr.
Edward D. Viner, MD
Howard Vogt
Marue E. Walizer
Kevin R. Walker
Joseph L. Walsh
Gregory L. Waters
Ann Watts
Wendel White
George Wheatle Williams
John R. Willis
Melanie L. Willoughby
Blenda J. Wilson
Barbara Wind
David W. Wolfe
Patricia Woolf
Sue Pai Yang
Jane Yates
John W. Yolton
John Young


Dan Fatton
Chair
New Jersey State Director of Energy Foundation
Bhavini Doshi, J.D.
Treasurer
Partner at McManimon, Scotland & Baumann, LLC
Michael Klein, J.D., PH.D.
Grant Review Chair
Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Institute of Government
Nathalia Bermudez
Head of Adult Services at the East Orange Public Library
Michael Robertson, Ph.D.
Professor of English at The College of New Jersey
Christopher Fisher, PH.D.
Vice Chair
Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey
Jacqueline Colgan
Member at Large
Bloomfield College Board of Trustees Member
Joyce Hendricks
Sr. Vice President & Chief Philanthropy Officer at the Institute of International Education (IIE)
Ruth B. Mandel, Ph.D.
Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University
Howard Marchitello, Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School at Rutgers University-Camden
Alexis Pedrick
Secretary
Manager of Public Programs at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
Jennifer J. Sancton
Governance Chair
Nonprofit Consultant
Mei-Mei Tuan, MBA
Partner at Trewstar Corporate Board Services
Lacey Rzeszowski
Co-Founder of Summit Marches On
Mark Hontz
Partner at Hollander Strelzik Law Firm
“The humanities are the record of the human imagination and its role in nations, societies, and communities. It has been of the greatest honors and pleasures of my life take a part in the humanities in our state.”
– Douglas Greenberg, Ph.D.
“Through the humanities I develop a deeper, more accurate, and more active understanding of everything else in the world, including art, science, and the people around me.”
–Brett Bonfield
“Language makes us human. The humanities are defined by our writing, reading, speaking—the human form of expression.”
–Ruth B. Mandel, Ph.D. 

 

“The humanities help to make sense of what it means to be human—right here, right now. The New Jersey Council for the Humanities helps people to understand our complicated world. It is a treasure.”
–Kiki Jamieson, Ph.D.
“The humanities are critically important to our national identification as one nation. Shared culture and history binds us together as Americans. Through literature and art, we are able to connect.”
–Caroline Casagrande, J.D.
“Remember in “Manhattan” when Woody Allen lists what makes life worth living? Louis Armstrong’s Potato Head Blues, Flaubert’s Sentimental Education, Swedish films. The humanities give life its richness and interest.”
–David Greenberg, Ph.D.
“Humanities is about changing the world and fighting for what we believe in. It is about blending our love of learning with a civic responsibility to America.”
–Rosa E. Soto, Ph.D.

 

“If you believe every voice should be heard, you have come to the right place! The NJCH is proud to provide our friends and neighbors a platform to do so.”
– Shane Berger