Please join us on Tuesday, October 17th from 12:00-1:30 p.m. for a virtual open forum Q&A with Program Officers from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

This event will be guided by faculty questions. If you would like to submit questions for the Program Officers in advance, please fill out this form.

We will be joined by the following NEH Program Officers:

• Sheila Brennan, Senior Program Officer, Office of Digital Humanities
• Madison Hendron, Program Officer, Division of Research Programs
• Hannah Schell, Program Officer, Division of Education Programs

Sheila A. Brennan is a Senior Program Officer in the Office of Digital Humanities and team lead for the Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities grant program. She is formerly 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. She has managed more than thirty digital humanities projects and trained many students and professionals in digital methods. She is the author of an open access digital monograph, Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post (Michigan 2018). She has a PhD in American and digital history from George Mason.

Madison Hendren is a Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs where she has worked since November 2020. At NEH, she oversees the John W. Kluge Fellowships review and is a member of the Collaborative Research program management team. Prior to joining NEH, she earned a Ph.D. in Italian studies from the University of Chicago (December 2020). Her dissertation considered the function of games and contests in Boccaccio’s Teseida.

Hannah Schell is a Program Officer in the Division of Education Programs. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College and earned her Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University. Prior to joining the NEH in 2022, she worked with the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education, a program of the Council of Independent Colleges, and served seventeen years on the faculty of Monmouth College in Illinois. Schell is co-author of Christian Thought in America: A Brief History (Fortress Press).