Kate Lemay

Background

About Kate Lemay

Award winning author and public historian. Game changer in public-facing women's history. Expert on Franco-American material culture, memorials, memory and World War II. Founding Director of PORTAL, the groundbreaking scholarly center at the National Portrait Gallery supporting scholarship in portraiture, biography, and American history. Leader of the National Portrait Gallery's History Department, developing scholarship and academic programs for the Portrait Gallery. Current Director of PORTAL, the National Portrait Gallery's scholarly center, organizing in-person and virtual lectures, conferences and symposia. A founding leader in #BecauseOfHerStory, the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative. Original research, widely published in military history and the memory of World War II. Bylines in the New York Times, CNN; exhibitions reviewed by 150+ global media outlets. Highly skilled in achieving team-oriented objectives and creating diverse and intersectional exhibitions and publications. Major grants and awards from Fulbright (France), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Terra Foundation in American Art, Centre Nationale Pour Les Rescherches Scientifiques (CNRS France). Fluent in French.