Stamford History Center
Board of Directors • 2023-2024
Tom Zoubek, PhD
Executive Director
Joseph Maida
Chairman
Vincent Murace
First Vice Chairman
Emily Derr
Second Vice Chairman
William Eynon
Treasurer
Sebastian Kulesza
Recording Secretary
Jennifer Hawthorne
Ronald S. Herbst, JD
Brad Lupinacci
Judy Norinksy
Rick Petersen
Eileen H. Rosner
HONORARY BOARD
Robert and Kate Bartlett
Sam Cingari
Denis Nayden
William Tong,
Attorney General of Connecticut
Joseph Maida became Chairman of the Board in June of 2020, after serving as Chairman of the Nominating Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee.. Joseph was born and raised in Stamford. Previously a Tax Manager with Price Waterhouse & Co, he currently has a CPA firm in Stamford. He is past Treasurer and Director of Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of S.W. CT, a past founder and Director of Cornerstone Bank and has been a Director of the Stamford Historical Society since 2007.
Thomas Zoubek received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University where he worked under Dr. Richard Burger. Dr. Zoubek's specialty is the archaeology of the Andean area. He has directed archaeological projects in the Virú Valley on Peru's north coast since 1992. He has published this work in a number of journals including Andean Past, The Journal of Field Archaeology, and The Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society in addition to a number of Peruvian publications.
He served as adjunct assistant professor at SUNY-New Paltz from 1996-2001 and was also an adjunct lecturer in Anthropology at Yale from 2000-2001. Currently Dr. Zoubek is Executive Director of the Stamford History Center as well as Chair of the Social Sciences Department at King and Low-Heywood Thomas School in Stamford Connecticut.
Staff Thomas Zoubek, PhD President & Executive Director Haideh Molavi-Wassey Office Manager |
Department Heads Ronald Marcus, Head Librarian Dan Burke, Assistant Librarian Jennifer Hawthorne, Textile Curator Emily Freidberg, Education Director Grace Bounty, Genealogist Louise Cecio, Photo Archivist |