The IHC Board of Directors elected three new members to its 20-member board from Lewiston and Boise to serve three-year terms on the board, beginning November 1, 2009.
Lisa Brady (Boise) is an Associate Professor of history at Boise State University. She fills a SW Idaho Academic vacancy. Lisa holds M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees from Montana State University and the University of Kansas respectively and has been teaching at BSU since 2003. Lisa is a specialist in environmental history and served as a lead scholar in IHC’s 2008 summer teacher institute “‘A Word for Nature’: Exploring Environmental Literature.” Lisa also served as IHC’s consulting scholar and lecturer for the tour of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Between Fences,” when it toured six Idaho communities in 2008-2009. Her book War upon the Land: Nature and Warfare in the American Civil War is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press.
Marc Johnson (Boise) rejoins the IHC board as an At-Large member after a three-year hiatus. Johnson is President of Gallatin Public Affairs, a Pacific Northwest public affairs/relations management firm. Marc holds a degree in journalism from South Dakota State University. The former press secretary and Chief of Staff for Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus, Marc served earlier as an IHC board member and as two-term Chair of the Council. He has lectured at IHC institutes for teachers and through IHC’s Speakers Bureau. He also served as Chairman of the board of the national Federation of State Humanities Councils, advocating for the work of the 56 humanities councils in the states and territories. In early 2009, he offered Congressional committee testimony in support of funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the state councils.
Christopher Riggs (Lewiston) is an associate professor of history at Lewis-Clark State College. He fills a North Idaho Academic vacancy. Chris holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Colorado and has been teaching at LCSC since 2001. He is a specialist in Native American history and has published extensively in his field. Over the years, he has participated in and served as a consultant for many IHC-funded humanities projects and programs, dealing with Native American history, the History of the American West, America in the 1960s, and the Vietnam War.
The IHC board is comprised of Academic, Public, and At-Large members representing all regions of the state (N, SW, and SE). Four members are appointed by the governor. Terms are three years, renewable once. Several members rotate off the board each fall as terms expire and new members are elected. The IHC board will fill several vacancies in the fall of 2010.
