Primary Job Title Director Primary Organization 
Smithsonian Institution
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Female
LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Michelle Delaney is director for the Smithsonian’s consortia for humanities. Delaney and a committee consider proposals for innovative research, exhibitions and programs from around the Smithsonian to determine which ones will receive funding. Delaney also serves as senior program officer for history, art and culture, working with senior staff and
directors to develop and implement the Smithsonian’s strategic plans. Her office reports directly to the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture.
Before she was named consortia director in summer 2010, Delaney was curator in photographic history at the National Museum of American History. Her research interests focus on American visual culture, early Daguerreian-era photography, art photography and pictorialism, Eadweard Muybridge’s locomotion studies, contemporary photojournalism and Washington, D.C., photography.
