Board
of Directors
Chair: Russell
Hemenway (National Director, National Committee for an Effective Congress;
Trustee, The Fund for Peace Inc.; Chair, Fund for Constitutional Government)
Secretary: Edgar N. James, Esq. (Partner, James & Hoffman;
pro bono litigator on behalf of the Archive)
Treasurer: Nancy Kranich (Former Associate Dean of Libraries, New
York University; Former President, American Library Association)
Dr. Anne Cahn, Ph.D. (Member of the Board of Directors, United States Institute of Peace;
Author of Killing Détente; former Director, Committee
on National Security; former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and
Department of Defense staffer)
Sheila Coronel (Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University; former Director, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism)
Herbert N. Foerstel (Retired University Librarian, University
of Maryland; Author of Secret Science and Surveillance in
the Stacks; Member, American Library Association Intellectual
Freedom Committee)
Gen. William Y. Smith, Ph.D. (US Air Force retired; former
President, Institute for Defense Analyses; former Deputy Commander,
NATO; Co-author of Operation Anadyr)
President: Thomas S. Blanton (Director, National Security Archive)
Advisory
Board
Dr.
Philip Brenner, Ph.D. (Professor of International Relations and
former Chair, School of International Service, American University;
Lead plaintiff in Archive lawsuit for Cuban Missile Crisis documents)
Susan Brynteson (University Librarian, University of Delaware;
Former Chair, American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee)
Rosemary Chalk (National Research Council, National Academy
of Sciences)
John Dinges (Professor, Columbia University School of Journalism;
former Managing Editor, National Public Radio; Archive Fellow and
Author of Our Man in Panama)
Dr. Joan Hoff, Ph.D. (Professor of History and Chair of the
Baker Institute, Ohio University; former Executive Secretary, Organization
of American Historians)
Dr. Akira Iriye, Ph.D. (Professor of History, Harvard University;
Past President, American Historical Association)
Dr. Ernest May, Ph.D. (Charles Warren Professor of History,
Harvard University; Former MacArthur Fellow)
Dr. David Alan Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Professor of Maritime Strategy,
National War College; Former MacArthur Fellow)
Tina Rosenberg, (New York Times Editorial Board; Former MacArthur
Fellow; Former Archive Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner for her book
The Haunted Land)
Jack Siggins (University Librarian, The George Washington University)
Dr. Richard Steckel, Ph.D. (President, AddVenture Network;
Former Director, Childrens’ Museum of Denver)
Dr. John Steinbruner, Ph.D. (Director, Center for International
Security Studies at Maryland; former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)
Thomas Susman, Esq. (Partner, Ropes & Gray; Former counsel,
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee; Co-author of the 1974 Freedom of
Information Act amendments)
