Briann G. Greenfield
Associate Professor of History
Coordinator, Public History Program
Department of History
208 DiLoreto Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone: (860) 832-2821
Fax: (860) 832-2804
Email: greenfieldb@ccsu.edu
Areas of Specialization: New England Regional Culture, Public Memory, Historic
Preservation, Museum Studies
Briann G. Greenfield received her B.A. in history from the University of New Hampshire
in 1992. She received her M.A. in Museum Studies from the Department of American
Civilization at Brown University. In 1999 and 2000 respectively, she received pre-doctoral
fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and the Winterthur Museum. She finished her
Ph.D. in American Civilization at Brown in 2002. Dr. Greenfield joined the history
department at CCSU in 2001. In 2002, she was named coordinator of the public history
program. In 2004, she held a National Endowment for the Humanities/ Winterthur Museum
fellowship.
Her teaching interests include public history/public memory, museum studies, urban
history, and technology in American culture. Her current research explores the construction of public memory in New England. She is completing a manuscript entitled Negotiating New England: Amateur Antiquarians, Museum Professionals, and the Heritage Market. Populated by museum curators, tercentenary organizers, antique collectors, and dealers, it examines the construction, institutionalization, and dissemination of public memory in New England from roughly 1900 through the1960s, a period defined by increased professionalization
among history presenters and the development of the antique
market.
Selected Publications:
- "A House in the Nation’s Attic," a review essay on the exhibit
"Within These Walls" at the National Museum of American History, American Quarterly 56 (2004): 151-162.
- "Marketing the Past: Historic Preservation in Providence, Rhode Island,"
in Randy Mason and Max Page, eds., Giving Preservation a History:
Histories of Preservation in the United States (New York: Routledge, 2003).
- "’Things That Work’: The Artifacts of Industrialization,"
Organization of American Historians Magazine of History
(2000). With Patrick Malone.
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