Allison Lange

Allison K. Lange is a Professor of History at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. Her work focuses on images, gender, and politics in United States history. In 2020, the University of Chicago Press published Lange’s book, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. The book focuses on the ways that women’s rights activists and their opponents used images to define gender and power during the suffrage movement. For the 19th Amendment centennial in 2020, Lange served as Historian for the United States Congress’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. She 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. Various institutions have supported her work, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Library of Congress. Her current research focuses on the first woman to run for US president: Victoria Woodhull.