Staff Bios
Adam
Goodheart
Hodson Trust-Griswold Director
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the
American Experience
410-810-7166
agoodheart2@washcoll.edu
Adam Goodheart is a historian, travel essayist, and critic whose work often deals with the intersection of the present and the past. A 1992 graduate of Harvard, he was a founder and senior editor of Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress, which won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication. He has been a prolific writer, contributing frequent essays and reviews to such publications as the New York Times (where he also served as deputy editor of the Op-Ed page), the American Scholar (of which he is a contributing editor and former Editorial Board member), the Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Goodheart’s travel writing has appeared in Outside, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, and other magazines. Among the prizes his work has received are the Lowell Thomas Award of the Society of American Travel Writers (2004) the Henry Lawson Award for Travel Writing (2005), and the A.D. Emmart Award for excellence in the humanities (2007); his essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, including the 2003 and 2008 editions of the Norton Reader. He is the director of the American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series at the Smithsonian, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Humanities Council.
Goodheart has taught courses in American Studies, English, History, Anthropology, and Art at Washington College, where in 2006 he became the director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. The position was endowed by the Hodson Trust later that year as the Hodson Trust-Griswold Directorship.
Jill
Ogline Titus
Associate Director
410-810-7157
jtitus2@washcoll.edu
Jill Ogline Titus received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007. Before joining the staff of the Starr Center, she worked extensively for the National Park Service, as a ranger-historian at Independence National Historical Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site, and a curatorial assistant at Gettysburg National Military Park. While serving as a historian with the National Historic Landmarks Program, she helped create the Sites of Conscience Project, which encourages stewards of historic properties to make their sites centers of civic dialogue. Titus has been a Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Consulting Scholar and serves as a district/state judge for National History Day. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Southern History, The Public Historian, The American Scholar, and Civil War Book Review. She is currently at work on a book project on Prince Edward County, Virginia, the high water mark of southern resistance to school desegregation.
Lois Kitz
George Washington Book Prize Coordinator
410-810-7165
LKitz2@washcoll.edu
Lois Kitz comes to Washington College after over two decades of work in the professional non-profit theatres of Houston, New York and the especially vibrant theatre community of Philadelphia. As a longtime production staff member at Philadelphia Theatre Company, she helped bring to the stage over 85 productions including more than a dozen world premieres. As Company Manager and Casting Director at PTC, Kitz was responsible for the oversight of the acting company as well as communication between the company and the major unions of the theater, including Actor's Equity and the Society for Directors and Choreographers. She served on the 2009 negotiating team that crafted the contracts between Actors' Equity and the League of Resident Theatres and, for several years, was part of the Barrymore Oversight Committee, the awards program administered by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Kitz has guest lectured at the University of the Arts and Temple University, from which she graduated with a B.A. in Theatre.
Michael
Buckley
Program Manager
410-810-7156
mbuckley3@washcoll.edu
Michael Buckley is an accomplished program/arts administrator, journalist and radio documentarian. For the past 14 years, Buckley has hosted a weekly radio program that airs on several stations around the Chesapeake region. His show includes a widely acclaimed interview series, "Voices of the Chesapeake Bay." For this series, Buckley crisscrosses the region, interviewing some of its most fascinating residents: farmers, Native Americans, watermen, writers, politicians. The show has been recognized with two Governor's Citations for Community Service and several "Best of Baltimore" awards from the Baltimore City Paper. Buckley's interviews have been collected in both a boxed set of 10 CDs and a book, Voices of the Chesapeake Bay. He has also been a founding member and managing director of the American Historical Theatre, public relations coordinator of the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, founder of the Philadelphia Town Meeting, and program coordinator of the New York Open Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Jenifer
Endicott
Center Coordinator/Office Manager
410-810-7161
jendicott2@washcoll.edu
Jenifer Endicott has had many years of work in non-profits, at the National
Trust for Historic Preservation, Arena Stage, and the National Housing Partnership
in Washington, D.C. In New York, she was Executive Director of the Goldfarb
Foundation, and worked at Ted Bates & Co. advertising, Hunter College,
and the O'Neill Theater Center. She has also managed the Ralph Lemon Dance
Company and was Company Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre. Before coming
to the Starr Center, she worked for the Kent County Commissioners, for former
Washington College President John Toll, and at everyone's favorite Chestertown
shop, Twigs and Teacups. Here at the Custom House, Endicott divides her
time between the Starr Center and the Center for Environment & Society.
She volunteers for Kent County's Character Counts program, as well as the
Church Hill Theatre and The Prince Theatre. A graduate of Emerson College
and Yale University, she is on the Board of Overseers for The Boston Conservatory,
and is also a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, Station New London
(CT).
