Center for the Study of Community Staff
THADDEUS C. GULDBRANDSEN, PHD, DIRECTOR
E-mail: tguldbrandsen@strawberybanke.org
603-422-7543 or 603-860-4581
UNH Anthropology: www.unh.edu/anthropology; UNC-CH:
www.unc.edu
Thad Guldbrandsen is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UNH and Director of the Center for the Study of Community at Strawbery Banke. Thad earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the UNC-Chapel Hill (2001) and his B.A. in Anthropology from UNH (1995). He has published on the topics of urban planning and governance, social inequality, local politics, environmental activism, educational anthropology, and anthropological theory and methods. He is co-author of the forthcoming book, If This is Democracy . . . Public Interests and Private Politics in a Neoliberal Age (NYU 2006). He is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled, Bull City Futures: Transformations of Political Action, Inequality, and Public Space. He has taught courses in urban anthropology; the anthropology of globalization; and race, gender, and social inequality in the United States. In addition to his work with the Center for the Study of Community, Thad is working in collaboration with Nina Glick Schiller on a study of contemporary migration and people's transnational relationships in Manchester, New Hampshire and Halle, Germany funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
STEPHANIE J. BERGERON, RESEARCH ASSISTANT/PROJECT COORDINATOR
E-mail: sbergeron@strawberybanke.org
603-433-1106
Stephanie Bergeron received a B.A. in Geography/Anthropology from the University of Southern Maine. She has worked as grant writer, land surveyor and currently as research assistant and project coordinator with the Center for the Study of Community, where she is involved with Web content, grant seeking and research.
STEERING COMMITTEE
KENNETH E. BARRETT
Ken is a graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, and an AMP alumnus of the Harvard Business School. After a brief military career, he found work in the heavy machinery industry eventually becoming a division president and then a group vice-president. He is now retired, and involved with non-profit organizations. He recently completed a term as a trustee and the treasurer of Strawbery Banke Museum. He currently serves as a trustee and the treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, and as a trustee and the investment advisor to the Thompson Endowment Funds. Ken and his wife Eve live in Kittery Point.
MARYELLEN BURKE, PHD
Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation (GPCF)
E-mail: meb@nhcf.org
NHCF: www.nhcf.org
Maryellen Burke is the Senior Program Officer for the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, a regional division of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. She works with donors and nonprofit organizations in the region. Maryellen has been involved with the nonprofit sector for ten years. Her experience includes program research, design, and evaluation, as well as grant making. She received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. Currently, she is intensively involved in Portsmouth history through the Portsmouth Historical Society and the Portsmouth Athenaeum. She lives in Portsmouth with her husband, Dennis, who is a local history writer and editor of SeacoastNH.com.
ELAINE SADOS KRASKER
Elaine Krasker was Born in Portsmouth,N.H. and attended public schools. Elaine Graduated from the University of N.H. with a B.A. in Government and went on to attend Graduate School at U.N.H. in the field of education. She has served on numerous boards in the Seacoast area including the League of Women Voters, The Community Council of Senior Citizens, The Visiting Nurses Assoc., Seacoast Hospice, The Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, former member of the Portsmouth Board of Education, The Library Committee, The Portsmouth Charter Commission, The Portsmouth Board of Adjustment and the Stratham Community Technical College. She was an original Board Member of Strawbery Banke Museum after it was incorporated and later served two additional terms as a Board Member. Elaine was involved in the restoration of the Shapiro House and maintains a strong interest in its interpretation. Having served in the 1974 N.H. Constitutional Convention, she went on to serve as a N.H. State Representative from 1976-1988 and was a member of the Democratic leadership. She then served as N.H. State Senator, District 24, from l988-1992 and was Chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Ms. Krasker currently serves as a member of Strawbery Banke's Board of Advisors, as the Chair of the NARAL Foundation, as a member of the Steeple Committee, as an Advisory Board member of the Black Heritage Trail Committee and as the Mayoral & Council appointment to the ArtSpeak committee. Elaine is also recipient of numerous awards, including the Granite State Award, presented by the University of New Hampshire, The Eleanor Roosevelt Award by the N.H. Democratic Party, The N.H. Woman's Lobby Meritorious Service award and an Honorary Degree by the Stratham Community Vocational Committee.
MARTHA E. PINELLO, CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST/TEAM LEADER
603/422-7521
E-mail: mpinello@strawberybanke.org
Martha E. Pinello has served as Chief Archaeologist at Strawbery Banke Museum since 1985. She also provides archaeological consulting to various historic site museums throughout New England. As Team Leader for a CSC-sponsored research project, Martha is responsible for the analysis and synthesis of the data gathered by fellow team members. She also leads the archaeological component of the project.
RICHARD SCHUBART, PHD, HISTORY DEPT. CHAIR/PHILIPS EXETER ACADEMY
E-mail: rschubart@exeter.edu
Philips Exeter: www.exeter.edu
Rick Schubart earned his B.A. in history at Kenyon College and subsequently his MA and PhD at the State University of New York. He was appointed to the faculty of Philips Exeter Academy in 1973 teaching American and European history. There he has served as the head of two dormitories, varsity boys' tennis coach, advisor to the Academy Washington Intern Program, the Elderhostel Program, and executive director of The Association of Boarding Schools in Washington, DC. Rick is the author of some two- dozen articles and the editor of several books on American history. He has received recognition from several national and historic institutions, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is currently serving as the chair of the Academy's History Department.
SCOTT STEVENS
Scott Stevens is the Executive Director of the Old York Historical Society. He previously directed historical museums in Vermont, New York State, and Minnesota, and taught in the public schools of Plymouth, Massachusetts. He holds a BA in American History from Denison University, an MAT from Brown University, and an MA from the State University of New York.
DAVID WATTERS, PHD, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR NEW ENGLAND CULTURE & PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT UNH
E-mail: david.waters@unh.edu
www.neculture.com; www.unh.edu/english
David H. Watters is the Director of the Center for New England Culture at the University of New Hampshire and is a professor of English and American Studies. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Brown University, he has been on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire since 1978. He teaches courses in New England literature and material culture, with a special emphasis on the Colonial period. His publications include books and articles on early American literature and gravestone art and on such authors as Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Books and edited volumes include: "With Bodilie Eyes": Eschatological Themes in Puritan Literature and Gravestone Art, "Types of the Messiah," in The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume 11: Typological Writings, and Encyclopedia of New England Culture (forthcoming). Video productions include Souls in Stone, awarded a Telly award for producer Barbara Coles. He serves as a trustee of the New Hampshire Historical Society and of the Robert Frost Farm, he co-chairs the New Hampshire Humanities Council Board of Advisors, and he is a member of the State of New Hampshire Historical Resources Council. Honors include: University of New Hampshire Public Service Award, 2003; James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities, 1997-2002; William L. Dunfey Award for Excellence in the Humanities, 1992; Council for the Advancement and Support of Education New Hampshire Professor of the Year, 1990.
SUMNER WINEBAUM
E-mail: winesum@maine.rr.com
Sumner Winebaum, a consummate sculptor and community activist, earned a BA in English from the University of Michigan. He enjoyed a long and distinguished history of service to Young & Rubicam as a copy writer in New York, and subsequently serving as founder and President of the Italian and then French offices. Sumner then took over as President of Winebaum News, which became the largest distributor of books, magazines and newspapers north of Boston. As sculptor, he has won the coveted Hitchner and deKalb Awards. He has served as president of the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, the Bow Street Trust, the Seacoast Repertory Theatre, as well as trustee of Strawbery Banke Museum, the Portsmouth Athenaeum and Temple Israel in Portsmouth, NH.
LAWRENCE YERDON, PRESIDENT - STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
E-mail: lyerdon@strawberybanke.org
STUDENT INTERNS AND AFFILIATES (2005)
TAVUS BEGENJOVA, UNH Anthropology class of 2005.
ERICA BERTOLOTTO, UNH International Affairs class of 2006.