People

Staff

Jenna Legault

Manager
jenna_legault@brown.edu
401 863 1177 
Contact for  finance and administration, events, graduate program and admissions, visiting & general information, web feedback  

Steven Lubar

Director, Professor of American Studies and History
lubar@brown.edu
401 863 6115 
Contact for academic programs, the M.A. in public humanities, and fellowships 

Ronald Potvin

Assistant Director and Curator
ronald_potvin@brown.edu
 401 863 5312
Contact for Nightingale-Brown House or its collections, use of exhibit galleries, or community jobs

Annie Valk

Associate Director for Programs
Anne_Valk@brown.edu
401 863 1396 
Contact for public programs, collaborative projects, and the public humanities practicum program 

 


Spring 2013 Faculty and Fellows

 

Rick Benjamin

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Humanities
AMST 2691: Poetry in service to schools and the community
ribenjam@gmail.com

Tyler Denmead

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Public Humanities
AMST 2699: Digital Storytelling
Tel: 401 863 1011
tyler_denmead@brown.edu

Holly Ewald

Adjunct Instructor in Public Humanities
AMST 1903G (co-inst): Oral History and Community Memory
Tel. 401 863 6140
hewald@me.com 

Sarah Ganz Blythe

Adjunct Assistant Professor in  Public Humanities, Director of Museum Education, RISD
AMST 2697: Museum Interpretation Practices
sganz@risd.edu

Steve Lubar

Professor of American Studies and History
AMST 1550: Methods in Public Humanities
Tel. 401 863 6115
lubar@brown.edu

Franklin Odo
Senior Fellow in Public Humanities, and founding Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American [APA] Program 
In residence APRIL 2013

Anne Valk

Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies 
AMST 1903G: Oral History and Community Memory
Tel. 401 863 1396
anne_valk@brown.edu



 

 

 

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