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 borders 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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ...

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

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

Career

Greenfield joined the faculty at

Central Connecticut State University Central Connecticut State University (Central Connecticut, CCSU, Central Connecticut State, or informally Central) is a public university in New Britain, Connecticut. Founded in 1849 as the State Normal School, CCSU is Connecticut's oldest publi ...

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

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. In 2018 Greenfield moved to the Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) 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

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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.

References

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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