David Madden – Founder and Executive Director
David Madden is the founder and Executive Director of The National History Bowl. Having played quiz bowl for four years at Ridgewood High School from 1995-1999 and college quizbowl for two years at Princeton University, he is well-versed with all the formats, concerns, and issues surrounding quiz bowl. He is committed to high standards for tournaments, well-written questions, and the growth of academic competition throughout the world. He is a former 19-day champion on Jeopardy, a published art historian, a professional genealogist, and a hiker of the entire length of the US East Coast for the Fisher House Foundation, a veterans’ charity. He was taking courses in Princeton’s Program in Teacher Preparation to become a high school history teacher himself when he had the idea to run a history themed quizbowl tournament. That was the Tri-State History Bowl attended by 34 teams on May 22, 2010. Soon after that, he put his teaching plans on hold to establish The National History Bee and Bowl. Aside from NHBB, he also has established a summer all-subject tournament, the Jersey Shore Open and he teaches History courses at ACE Quizbowl Camp. He can be reached at director@historybowl.com.
Greg Bossick – Assistant Executive Director
Greg Bossick is an Assistant Executive Director at NHBB. He directs tournaments, travels the USA doing outreach for NHBB, and assists with all aspects of our operations. Previously, for seven years he was the director of the Mahoning County Quizbowl League, Ohio’s first league to run solely on pyramidal questions. He has served either as tournament director or statistician in NAQT tournaments across Ohio and West Virginia, and his reading credentials include 2 NAQT State Finals, 6 HSNCTs (5 as a playoff reader), 3 PACE NSCs, and 3 NAQT ICTs. Greg also was a co-coach of Ohio for the 2010 NASAT at Vanderbilt and also lent his experience to Ohio News Network’s Westfield Insurance Brain Game as a judge. He can be reached at greg@historybowl.com.
Nick Clusserath – Assistant Executive Director
Nick Clusserath brings years of quiz bowl experience to his position as Assistant Executive Director of the National History Bee and Bowl. Currently, he primarily focus on handling operations with the National History Bee Middle School Competition, but he assists with directing and recruiting for our high school tournaments as well. He was a quiz bowl player at Dorman High School in Roebuck, SC from 2005-2008 where he claimed a top-5 finish at four National Championship tournaments and was named a member of the NTAE’s 2008 All-America team. Nick also founded the college bowl team at Clemson University where his team finished 2nd in the 2010 NAQT Division II Championship Tournament. He also directed several high school and college quiz bowl tournaments while at Clemson. He can be reached at info@historybee.com.
Will Mantell – Assistant Director
Will Mantell is a student at Princeton University where he is a politics major. At the 2010 Tri-State History Bowl, Will captained his team from Horace Greeley High School to victory and was named tournament MVP. He also won the singles tournament held on the same day, which was the pilot tournament for the National History Bee. As Assistant Director of the National History Bowl, Will helps out in all respects of question writing, tournament recruitment, tournament directing, and organizational development. He also assists with relations for host sites for our National Championships, specializing in outreach to embassies. He can be reached at will@historybowl.com.
Brian Smiley – Assistant Director
Brian is a student at Columbia University and former captain of the White Plains High School Quiz Bowl team. Brian is also a veteran of the 2010 Tri-State History Bowl, where he captained his team to a semi-final finish. As Assistant Director of the National History Bowl, Brian helps out in all respects of question writing, tournament recruitment, tournament directing, and organizational development. He also is responsible for our National Championships commemorative program, debuting in 2012. He can be reached at brian@historybowl.com.
Raynell Cooper – Assistant Director
Raynell Cooper is an Assistant Director of The National History Bee and Bowl.
Joshua Ma – Webmaster
Joshua Ma is a computer science student at M.I.T. and the webmaster for the National History Bowl. In addition to creating this site and its features, he is also responsible for information technology at the National Championships of the National History Bowl. For more information on his private website development business and for examples of his work, see http://joshma.com/.