The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation

People

People

The Howard Foundation is supported by its dedicated staff and its Board of Administration and Board of Trustees.

  • headshot of Joseph Meisel, a smiling white man with white facial hair and glasses in a blue shirt and jacket, with a yellow checkered tie

    Joseph Meisel

    Director, Howard Foundation
    Howard_Foundation.brown.edu

    Joseph Meisel is the Joukowsky Family University Librarian and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Brown University.  Previously, he served as Brown's Deputy Provost.  Before coming to Brown, he was Program Officer for Research Universities and Humanistic Scholarship at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where he was centrally engaged in developing and managing fellowships and other programs to support scholars at all career stages.  He holds AB and PhD degrees in history from Columbia University, and is the author or co-author of three books and numerous articles on the political culture of modern Britain.  

  • headshot of Ed Goll a bald white man in a white shirt and tan jacket facing to his right in front of a bookcase

    Ed Goll

    Program Manager
    Howard_Foundation@brown.edu

Board of Administration

Keisha Blain, Professor of Africana Studies and Professor of History, Brown University

Jayna Brown, Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies; Brown University

David Lindstrom, Dean of the Graduate School; Brown University

Graham Oliver, Professor of Classics and Professor of History; Brown University

Kevin Quashie, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in English; Brown University

 

 

Board of Trustees

William W. Kenyon, Chairman

Jane G. Gurzenda

Vincent J Kilbridge

Karen Binder

Walter G. Kenyon

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