The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford has named Briann G. Greenfield as its new executive director, officials announced Wednesday.
Greenfield will begin work on June 18, succeeding Executive Director Katherine Kane, who will retire on May 11 after serving about 20 years in the post, the museum said.
Greenfield will arrive in Hartford after working the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, where she served as executive director since 2014. Under the position, she led the council’s development and implementation of new programming and improved its financial stability and operating efficiency, officials said.
She has also served as a history professor and as founding director of the master’s in public history program at Central Connecticut State University for 13 years.
Greenfield earned her Ph.D. and master’s degree in American Civilization from Brown University and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of New Hampshire.
The Stowe Center’s board of trustees said it identified Greenfield through a nationwide search.
Officials commended Kane’s leadership, as she helped the organization transform from a private foundation to a publicly oriented museum with a diverse reach.
