Sheila Brennan

Sheila A. Brennan is the Assistant Director of the Office of Data and Evaluation. She is formerly a senior program officer in the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. Prior to joining NEH, she served as the director of strategic initiatives at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and research associate professor in the department of history and art history at George Mason University. Brennan is an experienced public historian who began her career working in federal history museums. Since 2005, she has developed and managed more than thirty digital humanities projects and trained many students and professionals in digital methods. She writes and presents on topics in digital history, museums and memory, postal history, and how museums engage with digital technologies. She is the author of an open access monograph, Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post (University of Michigan Press, 2018). She has a PhD in American and digital history from George Mason, as well as a master’s from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor’s from Bates College, both in American studies.