James Frey elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees for 2008
James H. Frey, former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UNLV, is the new Chairman of the Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees. He joined the faculty at UNLV in 1975, and founded and directed the Cannon Center for Survey Research. In addition to his academic career, he has served on a number of community boards, and has also served on the executive committee of the Western Humanities Alliance. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Green Valley and has been honored by Rotary for his work in promoting the Ambassadorial Scholarship Program. Other officers for 2008 include Art Wolf, Cydnee McMullen, Bruce Bledsoe, and Ana Douglass.
Gov. Gibbons appoints Mary-Ellen McMullen to the board
Mary-Ellen McMullen, long-time friend and supporter of the humanities, has been appointed to the Nevada Humanities board by Governor Gibbons. She has extensive experience in government affairs and education and has served on numerous community advisory committees. She is the immediate past president of the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation. The Governor, as mandated by the authorizing legislation of the National Endowment of the Humanities, appoints twenty-five percent of the board. McMullen is Gov. Gibbons first appointment, and replaces Patricia Ferraro Klos, who resigned last summer. Nominations are publicly solicited for other positions on the board.
Karen Wikander joins the staff
Nevada Humanities welcomes Karen Wikander as Managing Editor of the Online Nevada Encyclopedia. Karen was previously the Associate Editor of Encyclopedia Virginia, the online project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. While her research and teaching has been in American literature, a large part of her career has been dedicated to humanities computing and digital libraries. A native Nevadan and UNR graduate, she received her PhD from the University of Virginia.