Paris A. Spies-Gans is a historian of gender and art. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University and her MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her first book, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830, is forthcoming in June 2022 with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies for British Art in association with Yale University Press.