Meet the Staff
Board of Advisors
Tisa Wenger, (Co-Faculty Advocate), Department of Religious Studies/American Studies, Yale University
Harry Stout (Chair, Co-Faculty Advocate), Yale Divinity School, Yale University
J. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies, Boston, MA
Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian, Connecticut State Library
Claire Bowern, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Faith Damon Davison, (Mohegan), Archivist (emeritus), Elder & Nonner, The Mohegan Tribe
Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University
Elizabeth Theobald Richards (Cherokee), Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda, NYC; Program Officer Ford Foundation (2003-2010)
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), American Studies, Harvard University
Jody Blankenship, Executive Director, Connecticut Historical Society & Museum
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, (Kanaka Maoli), Departments of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Stephen Pitti, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
Lisa Brooks, (Abenaki), Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College
Harry Stout (Chair, Co-Faculty Advocate), Yale Divinity School, Yale University
J. Cedric Woods (Lumbee), Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies, Boston, MA
Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian, Connecticut State Library
Claire Bowern, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Faith Damon Davison, (Mohegan), Archivist (emeritus), Elder & Nonner, The Mohegan Tribe
Kenneth Minkema, Executive Editor, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Yale University
Elizabeth Theobald Richards (Cherokee), Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda, NYC; Program Officer Ford Foundation (2003-2010)
Philip J. Deloria (Dakota), American Studies, Harvard University
Jody Blankenship, Executive Director, Connecticut Historical Society & Museum
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, (Kanaka Maoli), Departments of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
David J. Silverman, Department of History, George Washington University
Stephen Pitti, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration, Yale University
Lisa Brooks, (Abenaki), Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College
- Advisor Emeritus: David Scott, Associate Editor, History of Parliament Trust, London
- Advisor Emeritus: John Demos, History Department (retired), Yale University
Subject Specialists & Consultants
Nicholas Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archaeologist (retired)
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), History Department, Yale University
James Caudle, Research Associate, Robert Burns Editions, University of Glasgow
Christine DeLucia, History Department, Williams College
John Mack Faragher, History Department, Yale University (retired)
Jeffrey Glover, Department of English, Loyola University
Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Washington, DC
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Russell Handsman, Research Anthropologist, Independent Consultant
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Department of History, New York University
Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair, University of New Brunswick
Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Transnational Studies, SUNY at Buffalo University
Michael Sletcher, Stanford University OHS, Stanford University
David Smith, Faculty of History, Cambridge University
Kevin Sweeney, American Studies and History, Amherst College
Cheryll Toney Holley (Nipmuc), Chief and Historian of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc
John Warner, Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wendy Warren, History Department, Princeton University
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), Tribal Historian/Medicine Woman, Mohegan Tribe
Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), History Department, Yale University
James Caudle, Research Associate, Robert Burns Editions, University of Glasgow
Christine DeLucia, History Department, Williams College
John Mack Faragher, History Department, Yale University (retired)
Jeffrey Glover, Department of English, Loyola University
Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Washington, DC
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
Russell Handsman, Research Anthropologist, Independent Consultant
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Department of History, New York University
Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair, University of New Brunswick
Daniel Mandell, Department of History, Truman State University
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Transnational Studies, SUNY at Buffalo University
Michael Sletcher, Stanford University OHS, Stanford University
David Smith, Faculty of History, Cambridge University
Kevin Sweeney, American Studies and History, Amherst College
Cheryll Toney Holley (Nipmuc), Chief and Historian of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc
John Warner, Archivist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wendy Warren, History Department, Princeton University
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), Tribal Historian/Medicine Woman, Mohegan Tribe