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 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

Early life and education

Greenfield grew up in

New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...

and had an interest in history from a young age. Greenfield has a B.A. from the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...

(1992). She has an M.A. (1996) and a Ph.D. (2002) from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

Career

Greenfield joined the faculty at Central Connecticut State University in 2001 and was promoted to full professor in 2012. She moved to work as the director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities in 2014. While there she advocated the cultural infrastructure needed for the humanities in

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

. In 2018 Greenfield moved to the

Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. Stowe lived ...

in 2018, where she remained until she accepted a position at the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2021. Greenfield is the author of two books. The first was on antiquing in the United States. Her second book centered on

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

farmers in Connecticut.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

Central Connecticut State University awarded Greenfield the Board of Trustees research award in 2010.

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*, June 1, 2018; while executive director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House *, September 14, 2021 Living people Brown University alumni University of New Hampshire alumni Central Connecticut State University faculty National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural historians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Academic-bio-stub