Dr. Allison K. Lange is a historian who explores the stories that images tell about the intersection of gender and power in US history. She is an associate professor at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. In 2020, the University of Chicago Press published Lange’s book, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. For the 19th Amendment centennial, Lange served as Historian for the United States Congress’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. She also curated exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard’s Schlesinger Library as well as a website for Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures called Truth Be Told: Stories of Black Women’s Fight for the Vote. She recently filmed a series on American women’s history for The Great Courses.
