 | Glen W. DavidsonChair, 2007–PresentGlen W. Davidson is a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Southern Illinois University. In his administrative career, he has served as a departmental chair, dean, academic vice president, and provost. His last administrative position was Director of Academic Programs for the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education. |
 | Eric S. DobkinVice Chair, 2010–PresentEric S. Dobkin is an advisory director to Goldman Sachs and Chairman Emeritus of Global Equity Capital Markets, having served as its founder and head from 1985 to 1997. Prior to that, he served as manager of the Restricted Stock Group, from 1979 to 1985, and manager of the Chicago Institutional Department, from 1973 to 1978. He joined the firm in 1967 in Institutional Sales in Philadelphia and became a partner in 1982 and managing director in 1996. |
 | Jack RatliffVice Chair, 2011–PresentJack Ratliff was on the Faculty of the University of Texas, School of Law from 1983 to 2002. Held the tenured Ben Gardner Sewell Professorship in Law and designated Professor Emeritus with the Ben Gardner Sewell Chair in 2003. He practiced law for over twenty years with a concentration in litigation. Mr. Ratliff was named the Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Texas, School of Law in 2007. |
 | Jason BradyTreasurer, 2010–PresentJason H. Brady is Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, and Head of Taxable Fixed Income at Thornburg Investment Management. Jason earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College in Environmental Biology and English, and an M.B.A. from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. |
| Joan FortuneSecretary, 2009–PresentJoan Fortune is a retired venture capitalist from Boston now living in Santa Fe. She is a member of the Visiting Committee at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. |
 | Steven J. BohlinBoard Member, 2009–PresentSteven J. Bohlin is a retired Managing Director of Thornburg Investment Management, Inc., an Investment Advisory firm providing advisory services for mutual funds and institutional clients. Steve was also Treasurer, Vice President, and Principal Financial Officer of the Thornburg Investment Trust, the Securities Act of 1940 Investment Company that was the umbrella company for the Thornburg Family of Mutual Funds. |
 | James F. BrooksPresident and CEO, 2005–PresentDr. James F. Brooks assumed the presidency of SAR in August of 2005. He joined the School in July 2002 as Director of SAR Press. An interdisciplinary scholar of the indigenous and colonial past, he has held professorial appointments at the University of Maryland, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Berkeley, as well as fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and in 2000–2001, at the SAR itself. |
| Dorothy BraceyBoard Member, 2012–Present |
 | Susan B. BruningBoard Member, 2008–PresentSusan B. Bruning earned a BA, BBA, and JD from Southern Methodist University and is currently a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology. The Bruning Law Firm, PC specializes in contract, copyright, trademark, licensing, corporate, and cultural/intellectual property acquisition/protection/use/disposition matters, primarily in the fields of entertainment, fine arts, antiquities, and cultural heritage. |
 | Benjamin F. CraneBoard Member, 2005–PresentBenjamin F. Crane retired as a senior partner in the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 1994. He began his career with the firm in 1954 after graduating from New York University School of Law. Ben became a partner in the firm in 1963. |
| Vera R. CampbellBoard Member, 2009–PresentVera Campbell is President of KWDZ Manufacturing, LLC, a clothing manufacturing company based in Los Angeles. She has established a new fellowship at SAR for women the Campbell Foundation to support women scholar activists from the developing world to give them support for travel and book purchases, networking and the experience of working in a center for advanced research. This will help them when they return to their home countries with effective plans for women's economic empowerment. |
| James FergusonBoard Member, 2012–Present |
| Susan L. FooteBoard Member, 1995–Present |
 | Brian FosterBoard Member, 2009–PresentBrian Foster is Provost at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He joined the University of Missouri as the chief academic officer in August of 2005. Prior to that, he served as provost at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His previous academic appointments include dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and graduate dean at Arizona State University, where he also served as professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology. |
| Patrick V. KirchBoard Member, 2007–PresentPat Kirch has a Ph.D. from Yale in anthropology. He is currently the Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research has focused on the Pacific Islands, specifically Melanesia and Polynesia. |
 | Robert B. KnutsonBoard Member, 2009–PresentRobert B. Knutson is a founder and former Chairman & CEO of Education Management Corporation ("EDMC"), one of the largest private education systems in the United States and a publicly owned company. EDMC's education institutions offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines to 158,000 students at 101 campuses throughout North America and online. |
 | Donald S. LammBoard Member, 2005–PresentDonald S. Lamm is from the book publishing world where he spent his career as an editor, publisher, and, now, literary agent. In 1956 he joined the W. W. Norton Publishing Company, where he worked for 45 years, more than half that time as president and chairman. |
| Ann MortonBoard Member, 2010–PresentAnn Morton's professional background is in public relations, communications, advertising, marketing, writing, and design. She has been an active volunteer in Houston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, New York City, and Fort Worth, including 28 years with the Junior League, and serves as a docent at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth and Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. She was Founder and first President of the National Charity League Buckhead Chapter in Atlanta. |
 | Christopher SmeallBoard Member, 2005–PresentChristopher Smeall is a partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, an international law firm with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Mr. Smeall served as Deputy Presiding Partner of the firm and was a member of its Management Committee from 1999–2007. |
| Ann StolerBoard Member, 2011–PresentDr. Ann Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York. She has worked for some thirty years on colonial governance, racial epistemologies, and the sexual politics of empire. She was a visiting distinguished professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and Social Science Research Council fellowships. |
 | James TrostleBoard Member, 2010–PresentJim Trostle is a former SAR resident scholar with a PhD from UC San Francisco and Berkeley in Medical Anthropology and an MPH in epidemiology. He is chair of the anthropology department at Trinity College in Hartford, CT where he has taught since 1998. |
| Diane Stanley VennemaSecretary, 2010–PresentDiane Stanley Vennema is the author and/or illustrator of more than fifty books for children and young adults under her maiden name, Diane Stanley. She is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University College of Medicine and worked as a medical illustrator before turning to children's books. |
 | Lynne WitheyBoard Member, 2011–PresentLynne Withey is the Retired Director of the University of California Press, publisher of scholarly books and journals affiliated with the University of California system. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (History) and her A.B. from Smith College (Magna cum laude, American Studies). |
 | John S. CatronHonorary Life Member, 1989–PresentJohn S. Catron received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of New Mexico Law School in 1951. He was an Assistant District Attorney in the Fourth Judicial District of New Mexico from his graduation until 1953. Since then he has been in the private practice of law with the Santa Fe law firm of Catron, Catron, and Pottow, P. A. |
| William S. CowlesHonorary Life Member, 1996–PresentWilliam S. Cowles was born in 1923, graduated from Yale University with a B.A., and MIT with a Bachelor's in Architecture; destroyer gunnery officer and navigator in WWII; married to Virginia L-S Cowles. |
| Flora C. ChrichtonHonorary Life Member, 1987–PresentFlora C. Crichton has formerly served on the Board of The East-West Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the board of Sweet Briar College and Trinity University, and the Board of Governors of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centers Association. She is currently a member of the National Council of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and President of the Flora Cameron Foundation. |
| Rollin W. KingHonorary Life Member, 1983–PresentRollin King was the Founder and First Chairman and President of Southwest Airlines Co., Dallas, TX. He was a member of the Board and Executive Committee from the formation of the company until he retired from the Board after 40 years in May 2006 at age 75. He is a Life Member of the Board of Managers, and an Honorary Fellow of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM. |
| David W. MatthewsHonorary Life Member, 1984–PresentDavid W. Matthews is retired from Healy-Matthews Stationers, Inc., in Santa Fe, which he founded in 1956. The company was sold in 1997. He served as President of the National Office Products Association from 1977 to 1978. |
| James E. SneadHonorary Life Member, 1996–PresentJim Snead is Chairman of the Board and Senior Shareholder of The Jones Firm, a general practice law firm established in Santa Fe in 1948. He has handled everything from murder cases to non-profit corporations, but his chief love, professionally, is representing individuals and small businesses in estate planning, real estate transactions, intellectual property and other business matters. |
| D.D. Van SoelenHonorary Life Member, 1965–PresentD. D. Van Soelen was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as was his mother, Virginia Carr Van Soelen. His father was the prominent artist Theodore Van Soelen who was on the Board of Managers for many years. He graduated from Taft School, attended the University of New Mexico for one year, and received his B.A. degree from Bowdoin College, Maine in 1946. He received his Certificate of Graduation from the University of Colorado, School of Banking in 1958. |
| Betty L. VortmanHonorary Life Member, 1988–PresentBetty L. Vortman is a native of rural Northeast Missouri where she received a B.S. degree in Education from Northeast Missouri University (now Truman University). She retired from Sunwest Bank (now Bank of America) as Senior Vice President. Betty resides at La Vida Llena Retirement community in Albuquerque. |
