Sheila Brennan
- Senior Digital History Associate
- sbrennan@gmu.edu
- (703) 879-8366
Sheila Brennan: Sheila is the Senior Digital History Associate in the Public Projects division and recently completed her Ph.D. in U.S. history at Mason. 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 CHNM 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 how museums use the web, popular collecting practices in the U.S., and late-19th and early-20th-century cultural history. She recently co-authored a guide and website to help researchers make better use of technology in the archive, Taking a Byte Out of the Archives. She currently is the end user coordinator for Omeka, and has managed the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives projects.
