Milton J. Cummings, Jr.      back to top
Milton C. Cummings, Jr. is a professor in the political science department at Johns Hopkins University. Professor Cummings worked for six years at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where he conducted research and wrote about American government and politics. For fifteen years, he also served as a consultant to NBC News, where he specialized in the network’s television coverage of the United States congressional elections. Professor Cummings has received fellowships and grants for research from the Social Science Research Council, The National Science Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and The Guggenheim Foundation. He is also the author or editor of a number of scholarly books, including The Patron State: Government and the Arts in Europe, North America and Japan (1987); Democracy Under Pressure: An Introduction to the American Political System (1997); and Who's to Pay for the Arts: The International Search for Models of Arts Support (1989).

William Glade      back to top
William Glade is Director of the Mexican Center and Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. During 1987-l989, he held appointments at the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and since 1989 has been a Senior Scholar with the Wilson Center. Following Senate confirmation in fall, 1989, he held a presidential appointment for three years as Associate Director for Educational and Cultural Affairs at the United States Information Agency. Prior to joining the University of Texas faculty, he held appointments at the University of Wisconsin and before that, the University of Maryland. His current research interests include cultural industries in regional integration, the role of culture in development, and the impact of globalization and supranational regional integration on national policies in selected sectors and sub-national regions. He has been a consultant, researcher, or lecturer for such organizations as the Fund for Culture of Argentina, the Salzburg Seminar, Council of the Americas, Business International, the Conference Board, the Inter-American Foundation, the National Planning Association, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Department of State, and institutions of higher learning and research in the U.S. Europe, Latin America, the Soviet Union and China.

Stanley Katz      back to top
Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is Co-Director of the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. He is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. His recent research has focused on private philanthropy and its effect on public policy in the United States and he is currently studying the behavior of non-governmental peace and conflict resolution organizations in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and South Africa in collaboration with Professor Benjamin Gidron of Ben Gurion University, Israel. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton, Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, Professor Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History. At the present time, he is Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cultural Alliance (Chair), The National Faculty, The Newberry Library and Southern Methodist University. He is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has honorary degrees from several universities.

Dan J. Martin       back to top
Dan Martin is Director of the Master of Arts Management (MAM) Program at Carnegie Mellon University, a professional graduate degree program jointly sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. In addition, he serves as Director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts Management and Technology, an applied research, training, and service center focusing on the development and application of information technology as a management tool for artists and arts organizations. Prior to joining the academic community as Director of the Arts Administration Program at The University of Akron, he spent fourteen years in not-for-profit professional and educational theater administration. Martin consults with arts and cultural organizations in strategic planning, information, technology, finance management, marketing, and board development. He serves as a site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts Theatre Program. He is past president of the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania and the Association of Arts Administration Educators, a trustee of the Pittsburgh Dance Council and Western Pennsylvania Professionals for the Arts (Pro Arts), and a member of the advisory boards of Arts Wire and the Center for Arts and Culture.  He is the author of Guide to Arts Administration Training and Research (1997-1999 and 1995-1997 editions) and articles in arts administration journals. Martin received his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Western Michigan University and his Mater of Fine Arts in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College/City University of New York.

Clement Price      back to top
Clement Price is a professor of history and chairman of the Department of African-American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. A recipient of numerous academic and service awards and honors, Price teaches classes in African-American history, U.S. urban history, and the history of New Jersey. He is also director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, which he initiated in 1996. A past chairman of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Price serves as historical consultant for many projects and was recently appointed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee on the Preservation and Use of Ellis Island. He is author many publications that explore Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture, including Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey, and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy. He is completing a study of Afro-American cultural and social history in 20^th century Newark, New Jersey, and a biography of Dr. Marion Thompson Wright, a pioneering historian of New Jersey race relations. Price received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bridgeport, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Ruth Ann Stewart      back to top
Ruth Ann Stewart is Research Professor at Rutgers University’s Center for Urban Policy Research and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She is one of editors of a book series published by Rutgers University Press, The Public Life of the Arts. Prior to joining Rutgers in July 1997, Professor Stewart was a senior policy analyst in arts, humanities, and social legislation at the Congressional Research Service (the legislative research and analysis arm of the U.S. Congress) and Assistant Librarian of Congress for education and cultural programs. She has also served as the Assistant Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Associate Director for scholarly publishing and external services of the New York Public Library Research Libraries.

Margaret J. Wyszomirski      back to top
Margaret J. Wyszomirski is Professor of Public Policy and Art Education and Director of the Arts Policy and Administration Program at Ohio State University. Previously, she was Director of the Arts Management Program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a leading scholar arts policy in the United States and has published extensively on the subject with articles appearing in various academic journals and as chapters in edited volumes. From 1985 to 1988, she was Director of the Graduate Public Policy Program at Georgetown University and returned there as Senior Research Fellow from November 1993 through December 1994. In 1988, she became a senior faculty member of the Washington office of the Federal Executive Institute of the United States Office of Personnel Management. In 1990, she served as staff director for the bipartisan Independent Commission on the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1991 through 1993, she was Director of the Office of Policy Planning, Research and Budget at the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Art, Ideology and Politics (1985); Congress and the Arts: A Precarious Alliance? (1987); The Cost of Culture (1989); America’s Commitment to Culture (1995); and, with Joni Cherbo, The Public Life of the Arts in America (2000). She has edited the Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, and is one of the editors of the Rutgers University Press series, The Public Life of the Arts.