Rebecca Brenner Graham is author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Kensington, 2025). She is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University. Previously, she taught at the Madeira School and American University. She has a PhD in history from American University. In 2023, she was awarded a Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation and a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from the White House Historical Association. In addition to JWA, her writing has been published in The Washington Post, Time, Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Follow her on Instagram @basicbookstagrammer.
