Laura Auricchio is an art historian specializing in France and the United States in the Age of Revolution. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Columbia. Her scholarship has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation, and others. Her books include The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered (Alfred A. Knopf), winner of the American Library in Paris book award. She has taught at Connecticut College, Fordham University, and Parsons School of Design, and served as the Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School, and Vice Provost for Curriculum and Learning at The New School. In 2024, she joined the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as Vice President.