Wilson Center for Leadership Board of Advisors

Board of Advisors

Henrik Rasmussen '03, Chairman
Joey Smith, Vice Chair
Toby Albright ’99
Timothy Beatty '97
Brawner Greer '90
Cpt. Brad Israel '04
Adam Lee
William Muse '70
Tayloe Negus '88
Bernard Niemeier
Craig Osth '73
Paul Pisano '89
Andrew Prehmus '08
Mark Robertson ’93
Hugo Rodriquez ’88
Ivan Schlager
Tucker Shumack '95
Dr. Curtis J. Smith
Julious Smith '65
Kevin Turner '03
Joel Velasco '95

The late Gen. Samuel V. Wilson (1923-2017)
Lt. Gen Samuel V. Wilson (USA ret), emeritus First Wilson Center Fellow; former Wheat Professor of Leadership Studies and President emeritus of Hampden-Sydney College, joined the Hampden-Sydney faculty after a military career that spanned four decades. His service included assignments behind Japanese lines in Burma in WWII and clandestine intelligence, covert propaganda, and paramilitary operations with the CIA during the Cold War. He served as a Special Forces Group commander ("Green Berets"), Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence, and concluded his career as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. 

Faculty Oversight Committee Members

Ms. Shaunna Hunter-McKinney, Director of the Library, Chair
Dr. Roger Barrus, Elliott Professor of Government & Foreign Affairs
Dr. Dr. Jeffrey Vogel, Associate Professor of Religion
Dr. Michael Wolyniak, McGavacks Associate Professor of Biology