Dr. Anthea M. Hartig is the Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the first woman to hold the position since the museum opened in 1964. Hartig oversees 257 employees, a budget of more than $40 million and a collection that includes 1.8 million objects and more than three shelf-miles of archives. Previously, Hartig was Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the California Historical Society. An award-winning public historian and cultural heritage expert, she is dedicated to making the nation's richly diverse history accessible and relevant. She earned her doctorate and master’s degrees in history at the University of California, Riverside, her bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Los Angeles and studied as an undergraduate and graduate student at the College of William and Mary.