R.I. Council for the Humanities elects officers

Emily Sutton

02/18/2008

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has announced the election of five directors and four officers at the council’s recent annual meeting.

Elected for three-year terms as directors, during the council’s annual meeting on Feb. 5, were:
• Brian Dunckley of Warwick, a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley. Dunckley has served on the council’s finance committee for the past two years. A biology graduate of the University of Michigan, he came to Rhode Island five years ago with a biotechnology technology startup.
• Kathryn C. Kilguss, a lawyer whose practice focuses on mediation and a local philanthropist. Kilguss currently serves as director of the Taunton River Watershed Alliance, a volunteer with the Seekonk Land Conservation Trust, and a trustee of the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. She also has been a member of the board of Save The Bay and co-chair of the nonprofit’s $10 million Explore the Bay capital campaign. A psychology graduate of Boston State College, she earned a master of social work from Simmons College, her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and her LL.M. in environmental law from Vermont Law School.
• David Lux, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Bryant University. Lux has served as a trustee for the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Newell D. Goff Institute for Ingenuity and Enterprise, and as a member of the steering committee of the Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Association. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work in history at the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D., and has been published widely in academic and professional journals.
• Robert W. Martin, the e-government specialist for the City of Warwick, who also volunteers his programming expertise to local cultural preservation organizations and the city historian. A history graduate of Marquette University, with minors in theology, philosophy and Latin, Martin has done graduate work in medieval studies at the University of Chicago and University of Minnesota and has studied public administration at the University of Rhode Island.
• Anaezi Modu, a teacher in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Executive Education Program and a past member of the advisory committee on the Center for Design & Business at the Rhode Island School of Design. The founding executive director of ReBrand, Modu is a former strategy director and senior vice president of brand experience at Bank of America and a former senior vice president of user experience and interactive creative director at FleetBoston Financial. An architecture and urban planning graduate of Princeton University, she earned a master’s degree in architecture and design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Elected for one-year term as officers of the Council for the Humanities were:
• Roger Blumberg of Providence, elected as chair of the board of directors. A member of the board since 2006, Blumberg is a visiting scientist in Brown University’s Computer Science department, where he has taught since 1998, and also teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.
• Christina Bevilacqua, elected as vice chair. She is director of member services and programs at the Providence Athenaeum.
• Marie Jenkins Schwartz, elected as secretary. Schwartz is a professor of history professor at URI, and director of the university’s Center for Humanities.
• David Reville, elected as treasurer. He is an associate at Grand Street Capital.
The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities – an independent, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities – is devoted to inspiring and supporting intellectual curiosity and imagination in all Rhode Islanders through lifelong learning in the humanities. For more information, visit, www.rihumanities.org.