Brenna Holland is the Assistant Director of Library & Museum Operations at the American Philosophical Society. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Temple University where she specialized in revolutionary and early national Philadelphia with a focus on women, gender, and histories of capitalism. She put her commitment to surfacing understudied histories to use in 2022 as Research Director for the Philadelphia Inquirer's special series A More Perfect Union and continues to explore the lives of early Philadelphians while revising her manuscript (heavily researched at the APS) titled Free Market Family: Stephen Girard and the Culture of Capitalism in Philadelphia. Before joining the APS, Brenna taught at the University of the Sciences, served as the Editorial Assistant at the Journal of the Early Republic, and held fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the APS. She also has a B.A. from Colgate University, where she majored in History and Molecular Biology.