Senior Leadership

Lynn is the vice president for advancement. She served most recently as director of development at the Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, New York, where she was responsible for building relationships with donors and members to generate resources for the gardens and Cornell University. As part of Cornell University’s $5 billion capital campaign, the gardens reached their goal three years ahead of schedule. Previously she served as membership director at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as membership manager at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Nan Wolverton is the vice president for academic and public programs. She manages and oversees all aspects of the Society’s programming, including serving as director of the fellowship program. She has previously held positions at Smith College, Amherst College, Old Sturbridge Village, Historic Northampton Museum and Education Center, and the Association of Research Institutes in Art History (ARIAH).

Beth is the associate librarian and head of acquisitions. She manages and oversees the Society’s acquisition, cataloging and systems departments, working collaboratively to set priorities, integrate departmental activities, and support the maintenance and sustainability of AAS's integrated library system. She also works closely with the five curators and is responsible for receiving and processing new acquisitions, as well overseeing the management and distribution of collections funds.

Lauren is the vice president for collections and Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts. She manages and oversees the Society’s acquisition, cataloging, conservation, curatorial and readers' services departments. She is also the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts and builds and cares for the Society's extensive collections of prints, broadsides, ephemera, and photographs, working with the Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC), AAS fellows, and outside scholars to make connections between American history and the visual resources of the Society.

Kristen is the vice president for finance and administration. She stewards and protects the Society’s finances and oversees the human resources, IT and buildings & grounds departments. She has previously held accounting and business operations positions in a variety of nonprofit organizations as well as the State Library of Massachusetts. Kristen has a MBA in public & nonprofit management from the Boston University Questrom School of Business and a BA in American politics and African & Afro-American studies from the University of Virginia.

Scott was appointed the eighth president of the Society in December 2020. A historian of the nineteenth-century United States, he has been associated with AAS for three decades, beginning as a Peterson Fellow in 1990. Before joining AAS he served as dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and as Foundation Professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.