Michelle Anne Delaney is the Assistant Director for History and Culture at the National Museum of the American Indian, managing the Museum's research and scholarship team, and leading the intellectual program development for exhibitions, educational programming, publications, and digital scholarship. She also directs strategic internal pan-Smithsonian projects, and external collaborations and university partnerships. Previously Delaney was Senior Program Officer for History and Culture, Office of the Provost, Consortia director for the Smithsonian Grand Challenges Consortium for Understanding the American Experience, and curator of photography in the Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History. Delaney is chair of the editorial committee for the 2019 publication Smithsonian American Women. An author and editor of several history of photography books, Delaney has also curated 25 Smithsonian exhibitions and related web projects. She is a current Board member for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and received her History PhD. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, in 2018. 

Book

• Delaney, Michelle A. 2019. Art and advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. In The William F.Cody series in the history and culture of the American West. 2019
• Moss, Dorothy, Kagan, Neil, and Delaney, Michelle. 2013. Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, Meacham, Jon, editor. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2013
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2007. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Kasebier. New York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers. 2007

Chapter

• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2013. "Introduction." In Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., editors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books. 2013
• Delaney, Michelle A. 2012. "Photography Changes the Work Curators Do." In Photography Changes Everything. Heiferman, Marvin, editor. New York;Washington, DC: Aperature;Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2012
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2011. "Gertrude Käsebier’s Portraits of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Sioux Indians." In Human zoos: the invention of the savage. Arles France; Paris, France: Actes Sud ; Musée du Quai Branly. 2011
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2008. "Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. (1862-1932)." In Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Hannavay, John, editor. 478–479. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 1 2008
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2008. "Smithsonian Institution." In Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Hannavay, John, editor. 1275–1277. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2 2008
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2008. "Thomas W. Smillie (1843-1917)." In Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Hannavay, John, editor. 1272. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2 2008

Review

• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2013. [Book review] "Native Performers in the Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney." The Public Historian, 35, (4), 94–96. 2013
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2012. [Book review] "Photographers of the Western Isles. By Martin Padget. Pp. 294. ISBN: 9780859767040. Edinburgh: John Donald. 2010. £30.00." Scottish Historical Review, 91, (2), 383–385. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2012.0132. 2012
• Delaney, Michelle Anne. 2012. [Book review] "Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America." The Public Historian, 34, (3), 86–87. 2012

Webpage

• Delaney, Michelle A. 2015. American Indians, Playing Themselves. 2015

Book

• Gardullo, Paul, Delaney, Michelle Anne, Serwer, Jacquelyn, and Bunch, Lonnie G., III, editors. 2009. The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books. 2009