The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Panelists
Heritage Philadelphia Program grant awards are adjudicated by a panel of experts from outside the Philadelphia area. Previous reviewers from the Grants Review Panel are listed below. Panelists’ titles and positions are as of date of review.
HPP Panelists 2009
Patricia West (panel chair), Curator, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook, NY; and Co-Director of the Center for Applied Historical Research, University at Albany, Albany, NY
Craig Barton, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Cynthia Copeland, Public Historian, Interpretive Specialist and Adjunct Professor, History Department, New School University, New York, NY
Frances Halsband, Founding Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects, New York, NY
Sojin Kim, Curator of History, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
Liselle LaFrance, Director, Historic Cherry Hill, Albany, NY
Fath Davis Ruffins, Curator of African American History and Culture, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
HPP Panelists 2008
Dan Spock (Panel Chair), Director of the History Center Museum, The Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Craig Barton, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Tom Hotaling, Designer and Principal, Ann Beha Architects, Boston, MA
Kathleen Hulser, Public Historian, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Allyson Nakamoto, Teacher Programs Manager, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Patricia West, Co-director, Center for Applied Historical Research, University at Albany, State University of New York; Curator, The National Park Service, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site; and Adjunct Professor in the Public History Graduate Program, University at Albany
Steve Zeitlin, Director and Co-founder, City Lore, New York, NY
HPP Panelists 1998-2007
Hope Alswang, President and CEO, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Rick Beard, Executive Director & CEO, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
Susanne Brendel-Pandich, Executive Director, Lyndhurst Mansion, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Tarrytown, NY
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
Susan Chin, FAIA, Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York, NY
David Crosson, President, History San José, San José, CA
Gary J. Egan, Vice President, Finance and Administration, The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA
Catherine Fields, Executive Director, Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield CT
Benjamin Filene, Director of Public History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Ann M. Fligsten, Esq., Former President and CEO, Historic Annapolis Foundation, Annapolis, MD
Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Historical Society of Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Lisa Froemming, VP for External Affairs & Advancement, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Billie D. Gaines, Director, National Museum Fellows Program, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
Pamela Hawkes, AIA, Vice President, Ann Beha Associates, Cambridge, MA
John A. Herbst, President and CEO, Conner Prairie, Inc., Fishers, IN
Gerri J. Hobdy, Assistant Secretary, Office of Cultural Development, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Baton Rouge, LA
Mike Jackson, FAIA, State Historic Preservation Officer and Chief Architect, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL
James Jensen, Lead Exhibit Developer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
David Kahn, Director, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
Janet Kamien, Independent Exhibit Developer
Lori Lachiusa Barnum, Executive Director, Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, NY
Paul Martin, Director of Exhibit Development, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Susan McLeod, Executive Director, Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, WI.
Christopher E. Mekal, Independent Financial Management Consultant, Boston, MA
Ann Mintz, Director, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Ward Mintz, Deputy Director for Programs & Collections, Newark Museum, Newark NJ
Steven Newsome, Director, Prince George’s Arts Council, Hyattsville, MD and former Director, The Anacostia Community Museum, Washington, DC
Mary Oehrlein, Principal, Oehrlein and Associates Architects, Washington, DC
Annabelle Radcliffe-Trenner, AIA, RIBA, Historic Building Architects, Princeton, NJ
Pieter Roos, Executive Director, Newport Restoration Foundation, Newport, RI
Laura Sadowski, Vice President for Marketing & Development, Strong Museum, Rochester, NY
Liz Sevcenko, Director, International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, New York, NY; and former Vice President for Interpretation, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY.
Lynne Spencer, Principal, Menders, Torrey and Spencer Architects, Boston MA
Kathleen Stiso Mullins, President, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH
Martha Storm Dyckes, Director, Division of Interpretive Services, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Director and Professor, Cooperstown Graduate Program, Cooperstown, NY
Candace Tangorra Matelic, Principal, The Cherry Valley Group, Cooperstown, NY
David Thelen, Ph.D., Professor of History and Co-Author of The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Kenneth Turino, Exhibition Manger, Historic New England, Boston, MA
Max van Balgooy, Director of Education and Interpretation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington DC
James M. Vaughan, Vice President, Stewardship of Historic Sites, National Trust for
Historic Preservation, Washington, DC
Jay D. Vogt, Director, South Dakota State Historical Society and State Historic Preservation Officer, Pierre SD
Tara White, Program Officer, American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN
Sheldon Wolf, Development and Marketing Director, New England Aquarium, Boston, MA
Laurence Yerdon, President, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, NH