Angelica Hankins

Daniel Sack is Deputy Director of the Division of Research Programs. He is a historian of American religion with a PhD in religious studies from Princeton University. He has taught or been an administrator for the University of Chicago, Hope College, Columbia Theological Seminary, and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. He is the author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture (2000) and Moral Re-Armament: The Reinventions of an American Religious Movement (2009). He is working on two projects—on religion in the Great Depression and on airport chapels as sacred space.

Since her start at the Endowment in 2006, Carol Peters has served the agency in a variety of capacities. most recently as director of EDSITEment, the agency's website project for K-12 educators.

Before coming to the Endowment, Carol worked as a development editor in the higher education division of Pearson/Prentice-Hall for art history titles and held teaching positions at Loyola University Maryland; Maryland Institute College of Art; and East Carolina University, where she collaborated on restructuring the school of art freshman curriculum. Carol holds a Ph.D. in art history from Indiana University, Bloomington, and has published numerous articles on early Italian artists and on photography. 

Julia Huston Nguyen is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Lifelong Learning. She earned an undergraduate degree in history and German studies from Mount Holyoke College and a Ph.D. in history from Louisiana State University. Her graduate training focused on the pre-Civil War American South, with emphasis on the Lower Mississippi River Valley. She came to the Endowment in 2004 from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she was an assistant professor of history, and she has also taught at Louisiana State University and River Parishes Community College. She has published numerous articles on education, domestic service, and religion in antebellum and Civil War-era Mississippi and Louisiana.