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Sheila Brennan

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Sheila Brennan

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Name

Sheila Brennan

Last Name

Brennan

Position(s) at CHNM

Grant and Documentation Writer, (2005)
Project Manager, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (2005-2007)
Senior Digital History Associate (2007-2010)
Associate Director of Public Projects (2010-present)
Research Associate Professor, (2010-present)

Began at CHNM

2006

Biographical Text

Sheila is the Associate Director of Public Projects division and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Art History. She manages many current and legacy digital projects at RRCHNM. She completed her Ph.D. in U.S. history at Mason in 2010. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Bates College and Master's from the University of Notre Dame in American Studies. Prior to coming to RRCHNM in 2005, she worked as the Director of Education and Public Programs at the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington, DC for seven years. Her research interests include public history, digital history, how museums use the web and digital platforms, museums and material culture, popular collecting practices in the U.S., and late-19th and early-20th-century cultural history. She has co-authored essays on teaching the history of technology, doing oral history in the digital age, and on the challenges of online collecting projects. Additionally, two of her essays appear in edited collections published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. She has made several presentations on digital history, digital tools, online collecting and archiving, and postal history. Her dissertation, Stamping American Memory: Stamp Collecting in the U.S. 1880s-1930s, was awarded the 2010 Moroney Prize for Scholarship in Postal History. In 2012, she was awarded the University of Michigan Press-HASTAC Prize for Digital Humanities to create a new web project, Stamping American Memory. She blogs at: Lot 49. When not working, she enjoys cooking, eating, and talking about food, and playing outside.

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“Sheila Brennan,” RRCHNM20, accessed December 22, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/66.