Staff & Board
NHS Staff
Ruth Taylor, Executive Director
Bert Lippincott III, C.G., Librarian & Genealogist
Ingrid Peters, Director of Education
Elizabeth Sulock, Public Affairs Associate
Loraine Byrne
Administrative / Membership Manager
Matthew Keagle
Adjunct Curator
Charles Morgan
Facilities
Adams Taylor
Exhibitions
James L. Yarnall, Ph.D.
Editor, Journal of Newport History
To contact a member of the staff, please call the Newport Historical Society at (401) 846-0813, e-mail: info@newporthistorical.org, or write to the Newport Historical Society at 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI 02840
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Board of Directors
Officers
Thomas P.I. Goddard
President
Harrison M. Wright
1st Vice President
Jessica Hagen-Hill
2nd Vice President
Dickson Boenning
Treasurer
Dorienne Farzan
Secretary
Kenneth H. Lyons
President Emeritus
John J. Salesses
President Emeritus
Richard I. Burnham
President Emeritus
Dennis McCoy
President Emeritus
Anne F. Hamilton
Honorary Director
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Directors
James Farrar
Beatriz Ford
George G. Herrick
Victoria Johnson
Pamela Kelley
Roger H. King
Elizabeth Leatherman
David P. Leys, Sr.
Matthew H. Leys
Douglas Newhouse
Nancy Parker Wilson
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Leadership Council, Charter Members 2011
Hugh D. Auchincloss, III
Newport, RI
Civic leader, foreign affairs scholar
Sylvia Brown
London and Newport
Donor advisor and philanthropist
Richard C. Crisson
Boston and Newport
Historical Architect, National Parks Service
Author of Architectural Preservation: a Proposal for the Optimum use of a Unique Local Architectural Resource and co-author of Sagamore Hill: Home of Theodore Roosevelt
Richard I. Burnham
Washington, DC and Newport
President Emeritus of the Newport Historical Society
Retired Foreign Service and World Bank officer, Philanthropist
Elaine Forman Crane
New York, NY
Professor of History at Fordham University
Author of Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America, A Dependent People: Newport, RI in the Revolutionary Era, and editor of the Journal “Early American Studies.”
David B. Ford
New York and Newport
President, DBF Associates
Anne F. Hamilton
Philadelphia and Newport
Honorary Director of the Newport Historical Society
Philanthropist
Edward W. Kane
Concord, MA and Newport
Senior Advisor, HarbourVest Partners LLC
Michael C. Kathrens
Newport, RI
Architectural Historian
Author of The Great Houses of New York 1880-1930, Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935 and American Splendor, The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer.
Karen Lloyd
Washington, DC
Director, Planning, Program Performance Assessment & Risk Management
Library of Congress
Philip C. Marshall
South Dartmouth, MA
Professor and Coordinator, Historic Preservation Program, Roger Williams University and consultant in historic preservation world-wide
Member of the board of the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS), Preserve Rhode Island, and Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum.
Doug Riggs
Newport, RI
Books, Travel and Rhode Islander Editor at the Providence Journal
Author of Keelhauled: Unsportsmanlike Conduct and the America’s Cup and numerous articles on Newport history.
Pieter N. Roos
Portsmouth, RI
Executive Director, Newport Restoration Foundation
Co-author of Extraordinary Vision: Doris Duke and the Newport Restoration Foundation and Rough Point: The Newport Home of Doris Duke
Gerald W. R. Ward
Portsmouth, NH
Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Author, co-author and editor of many volumes including American Case Furniture, Decorative Arts and Household Furnishings in America, 1650-1920: An Annotated Bibliography, American Folk, and New England Silver and Silversmithing, 1620-1815.
Edward L. Widmer
Providence, RI
Director, John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Author of Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City, Martin Van Buren, co-author of Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Race; contributing editor to The American Scholar and a frequent contributor to a variety of publications, including The New York Times.
