From the New Jersey Council for the Humanities:
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) has announced the appointment of Briann G. Greenfield as its Executive Director. Greenfield most recently served as Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, where she was the founder of the school’s program for careers in museums and historic preservation. She was a longtime board member and consultant for Connecticut Humanities, focusing on grant making. She consulted on acquisitions and collecting strategies for the Connecticut Historical Society, and was an editorial member for Connecticut Explored.
Greenfield received her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University, and an M.A. in Museum Studies, also from Brown. An accomplished cultural historian, her experience includes many museums and historical societies, fellowships with the Smithsonian, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Winterthur Museum. She is the author of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England and A Life of the Land: Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers which she co-authored with Mary M. Donohue for the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford.
For more information visit NJCH.org.