Corridor Leadership

Directors

Vivian M. May · Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University.

Paul Fleming · L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities, Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities; Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University.

Joan Shelley Rubin · Dexter Perkins Professor in History and the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, University of Rochester.

Staff

Kathleen "Katie" Walpole, MPA · Program Manager, Central New York Humanities Corridor

For general inquiries, contact the Corridor’s administrative home at Syracuse University at cnyhumanities@syr.edu.

Advisory Board Members for 2021-22

The Principal Investigator/Directors administrative structure is supplemented by the CNY Humanities Corridor Advisory Board.

Advisory Board Governance

Composition

Syracuse University, Cornell University, and the University of Rochester are represented by the Principal Investigator/Director at each campus. In addition, two members are selected from each of the CNY Humanities Corridor’s founding institutions. Other partner institutions may also have a representative invited to serve [in addition to any ex-officio administrative member(s)].

Selection

Representatives from active, participating campuses are invited to serve three-year terms. Diversity, interdisciplinarity, campus role, and direct experience with successfully organizing working groups are some of the key criteria taken into account for Board composition.

Function

At the annual CNY Humanities Corridor fall conferences, the Advisory Board receives reports on the previous year’s activities, programming and budget. Based on these reports, the Advisory Board makes recommendations to the Directors for the purpose of the following year’s review and award process conducted by the Directors. The Advisory Board may also recommend larger program changes (e.g., changes to the current research cluster configuration).

A Platform for Future Collaborations

The Corridor holds annual conferences each fall at rotating locations to:

  • Gather Advisory Board members to make programmatic recommendations for the coming year to the Principal Investigator/Directors;
  • Highlight the CNY Humanities Corridor’s activities over the course of the year; and
  • Provide faculty and academic staff with enhanced opportunities to network with colleagues from across the Corridor.

Previous Advisory Boards

2020-21

2019-20

  • Vivian May, Syracuse University, Director
  • Paul Fleming, Cornell University, Director
  • Joan Rubin, University of Rochester, Director
  • Patrick Williams, Syracuse University, Representative
  • Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, Representative
  • Annette Richards, Cornell University, Representative
  • Debra Castillo, Cornell University, Representative
  • Jessica Lacher-Feldman, University of Rochester, Representative
  • Anaar Desai-Stephens, University of Rochester, Representative
  • David McCabe, Colgate University, Representative
  • Tom Wilson, Hamilton College, Representative
  • John Monteleone, Le Moyne College, Representative
  • Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, ex-officio (Principal Investigator, 2008-2019)

2017-19

  • Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University, Director
  • Paul Fleming, Cornell University, Director
  • Joan Rubin, University of Rochester, Director
  • Kendall Phillips, Syracuse University, Representative
  • Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, Representative
  • Esra Akcan, Cornell University, Representative
  • Debra Castillo, Cornell University, Representative
  • Peter Christensen, University of Rochester, Representative
  • Jessica Lacher-Feldman, University of Rochester, Representative
  • David McCabe, Colgate University, Representative
  • Tom Wilson, Hamilton College, Representative
  • Julie Grossman, LeMoyne College, Representative
  • Vivian May, Syracuse University, ex-officio