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NJCH Board members

The board is composed of elected members and gubernatorial appointees.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

NJCH is fortunate to have a dedicated and knowledgeable Board of Trustees. Our Board exercises important fiduciary, governance, and programmatic responsibilities and plays a central role in helping to raise public and private funds. Members of the Board also serve as ambassadors for the Council, promoting its work within their communities and with elected officials.

Gregory Waters, Ph.D.
Chair
Professor Emeritus of English at Montclair State University
Dan Fatton
New Jersey State Director of Energy Foundation
Michael Klein, J.D., PH.D.
Treasurer
Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Institute of Government
Assemblywoman Carol Murphy
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly, District 7
Laura S. Hertzog, Esq.
General Counsel at Noodle
Jennifer J. Sancton
Development Chair*, Non-board
Nonprofit Consultant
*External, community member role
Rayman Solomon
University Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Rutgers University-Camden
Denise Coulter, Ed.D.
Dean, Liberal Studies at Atlantic Cape Community College
Christopher Fisher, PH.D.
Vice Chair
Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey
Sara D. Siegler, MLIS, QPA
Member-At-Large
Assistant Library Director at Ocean County Library
Howard Marchitello, Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School at Rutgers University-Camden
Assemblywoman Sadaf Jaffer, Ph.D.
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly, District 16, and postdoc at Princeton University
Michael Perice
Senior Rabbi at Temple Sinai of Cinnaminson
Lourdes Tango
Executive and Career Coach at Lourdes Tango Consulting
Jonathan Mercantini, Ph.D.
Grants Committee Chair
Acting Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of History at Kean University
Jacqueline Colgan
Secretary
Bloomfield College Board of Trustees Member
Theresa Jacks
Acting President and CEO, Council of New Jersey Grantmakers
Lacey Cotter Rzeszowski
Co-Founder of Summit Marches On
Mark Hontz
Partner at Hollander Strelzik Law Firm
Tony Iacono, Ph.D.
President at County College of Morris
Audrey Truschke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Asian Studies Director at Rutgers University-Newark
Lynne Toye
Executive Director, NJ Arts & Culture Renewal Fund at Princeton Area Community Foundation

NJCH Board Chairs 1973-present

Frank N. Elliott
Leonard Johnson
J. Harry Smith
Bernard Peltz
C.F. Main
Leah P. Sloshberg
Cole A. Lewis
Robert Hollander
Alan B. Donovan
Michael N. Gimigliano
Timothy J. Crist
Gregory Waters
Walter T. Savage
Jane Kenny
Theodore K. Rabb
Sondra B. Fishinger
Barry V. Qualls
Michael Bzdak
Debra K. Spruill
Zachary M. Narrett
Alice Chandler
Gregory Waters
Wendel A. White
Stan Katz
Linda Morgan
Doug Greenberg
Kiki Jamieson
Dan Fatton
Gregory Waters
FORMER NJCH BOARD MEMBERS
Fred B. Adelson
Diogenes Allen
Clara Allen
Nila Aronow
Susan Artmann
Nahid Aslanbeigui
Cathy Bao Bean
Shane Berger
Nathalia Bermudez
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, Ph.D.
Doug Greenberg, Ph.D.
Linda R. Greenstein
Bruce Paul Grefe
Joyce Wilson Harley, Esq
Jacques Harlow
Mary S. Hartman
Joyce Hendricks
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 N. Katz, Ph.D.
Thomas H Kean, Jr.
Bernard F. Kenny Jr.
Jane Kenny
Kathryn L. Kimball
Cynthia Koch
Asela Laguna
Elpidio Laguna-Diaz
The Honorable 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
Alexis Pedrick
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, Ph.D.
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
Mei Mei Tuan
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
“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

 

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Physical: 336 Friends Street Camden, NJ 08102
Mailing: PO Box 3287, Camden, NJ 08101

609.695.4838

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    ▼
    • Mission
    • Impact
    • Staff and Interns
    • Board
    • Katz Prize
    • Strategic Plan
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    • Accessibility
  • EVENTS
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    • 50th Monthly Events
    • 50th Anniversary Gala
    • Events Calendar
  • GRANTS
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    • Grants Overview
    • Funded Projects
    • For Grantees
  • PROGRAMS
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    • Clemente Course in the Humanities
    • Community Conversations
    • Community History
    • In the Weeds
    • Informed NJ
    • Museum on Main Street
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