Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay
Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay is Acting Senior Historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She is a Fulbright Scholar; a Presidential Counselor to the National WWII Museum; and the founding director of PORTAL, the Portrait Gallery’s scholarly center. Lemay also served as the founding coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative. She earned a dual Ph.D. in American art history and American studies from Indiana University (Bloomington).
