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Chairman William D. Adams, National Endowment for the Humanities

Public Address:
New Directions in Humanities Research
A National Perspective

William D. Adams is the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Adams, president of Colby College in Waterville, Maine from 2000 until his retirement on June 30, 2014, is a committed advocate for liberal arts education and brings to the Endowment a long record of leadership in higher education and the humanities. A veteran of the war in Vietnam, Adams received his PhD in the History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz. He has held major leadership positions at Stanford University, Bucknell University, and Wesleyan University.