Briann Greenfield
Briann Greenfield is an American academic and author. She is the director of the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Briann Greenfield | |
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| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Old New England in the twentieth-century imagination : public memory in Salem, Deerfield, Providence, and the Smithsonian Institution (2002) |
Early life and education edit
Greenfield grew up in New Hampshire and had an interest in history from a young age.[1] Greenfield has a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire (1992). She has an M.A. (1996) and a Ph.D. (2002) from Brown University.[2]
Career edit
Greenfield joined the faculty at Central Connecticut State University in 2001 and was promoted to full professor in 2012.[3] She moved to work as the director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities in 2014.[1] While there she advocated the cultural infrastructure needed for the humanities in New Jersey.[4] In 2018 Greenfield moved to the Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) in 2018,[5] where she remained until she accepted a position at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021.[2][6]
Greenfield is the author of two books. The first was on antiquing in the United States.[7] Her second book centered on Jewish farmers in Connecticut.[8]
Selected publications edit
- Greenfield, Briann (2009). Out of the attic : inventing antiques in twentieth-century New England. Amherst [Mass.]: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-61376-098-7. OCLC 794701581.
- Donohoe, Mary M.; Greenfield, Ph D. Briann G. (2010-01-01). A Life of the Land: Connecticut's Jewish Farmers. Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford.
Awards and honors edit
Central Connecticut State University awarded Greenfield the Board of Trustees research award in 2010.[2]
References edit
- ^ a b Patterson, Mary Jo (2016). "Briann Greenfield of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities". Humanities; Washington. Vol. 37, no. 1. p. 39.
- ^ a b c "National Endowment for the Humanities Appoints Briann G. Greenfield as Director of Preservation and Access". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ^ "Briann Greenfield – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ^ Johnson, Brett (February 6, 2017). "The ultimate human interest story". NJBIZ; New Brunswick. Vol. 30, no. 6. pp. 53, 58.
- ^ Dunne, Susan (February 12, 2021). "Stowe House, visitors center staff reach collective bargaining agreement". Hartford Courant (Online), Hartford – via ProQuest.
- ^ Vasile, Zachary (April 29, 2021). "Stowe Center director takes new job, search begins for replacement". Hartford Business News.
- ^ Reviews for Out of the attic
- Martinko, Whitney A. (2010). "Review of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England; Aesop's Mirror: A Love Story". The New England Quarterly. 83 (3): 544–547. doi:10.1162/TNEQ_r_00028. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 20752718.
- Rosenstein, Leon (2011). "Review of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England". The American Historical Review. 116 (3): 843–844. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.3.843. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 23308317.
- Moskowitz, Marina (2011). "Review of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England". The Journal of American History. 97 (4): 1145–1146. doi:10.1093/jahist/jar002. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 41508981.
- ^ "A Life of the Land: Connecticut's Jewish farmer". 11 November 2010.
External links edit
- Appearances on C-SPAN, June 1, 2018; while executive director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
- Collective Perspectives 2021 - Creating Antiques on YouTube, September 14, 2021