Board and Staff – Stamford History

Board & Staff

Chairman Board of Directors

Joseph Maida

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.

Executive Director

Thomas Zoubek

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 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.