Angelica Hankins

Adam Wolfson is Assistant Chair for Programs. He has previously served as Acting Chair of NEH and Director of NEH’s Division of Research Programs.  Adam has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Claremont McKenna College’s Washington DC program, and elsewhere.  He is author of Persecution or Toleration: An Explication of the Locke-Proast Quarrel, 1689-1704. Adam holds an AB in history from Harvard University and a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.

John Cox is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Fed/State Partnership. He received his PhD in English from the University of Mississippi in 2000. Prior to coming to NEH, he was an associate professor of English and the director of graduate studies at Georgia College & State University. In addition, he has taught secondary school literature and composition in the United States and abroad. His book, Traveling South: Travel Narratives and the Construction of American Identity, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2005. He has also written and presented on William Bartram, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and other topics related to American literature.

Stefanie Walker is Director of the Division of Research. From 2021-2021 Walker served as the Director of Challenge Grants. She previously was Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs for twelve years, where she was responsible for Collaborative Research and programs run in partnership with other agencies and external funders, and also served as the division’s Acting Deputy Director. 

Walker earned her PhD in art history from New York University in 1994. She has curated exhibitions and taught at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture in New York City and the George Washington University--Smithsonian Associates Masters Program for History in the Decorative Arts in Washington, D.C. She has been co-editor or contributor to several publications, including The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery (2017); Display of Art in the Roman Palace 1550-1750 (2014), The Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry (2004), Life and the Arts in the Baroque Palaces of Rome: Ambiente Barocco (1998). 

Walker has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Villa I Tatti in Florence, among others. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and an honorary member of the Roman Goldsmiths Guild.