President Biden on Tuesday nominated Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of Native American higher education and a longtime administrator, as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Lowe, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, would be the first Native American and the second woman to lead the agency.
Ms. Lowe, who grew up in Ganado, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation, is currently a member of the National Council on the Humanities, a 26-member advisory board...