Acting Executive Director, National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)

Darrell Meadows

R. Darrell Meadows joined NARA in 2014, serving a variety of roles in the Office of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Most recently, he has led efforts to streamline and document the NHPRC’s grantmaking processes; to reach greater numbers of prospective new applicants at archives across the United States; and to support mutually-beneficial collaborations in the publication, discovery, and access to non-federal historical records. Before coming to NARA, Meadows served as the Director for Research and Publications at the Kentucky Historical Society. He holds a doctoral degree in Social History from Carnegie Mellon University, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.