Rebecca Brenner Graham is a writer, teacher, and historian of the United States.

Rebecca is currently writing a book on female millennial pop culture and the American Revolution. Her first book, Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany, was a finalist for the Grateful American Book Prize in 2025. Dear Miss Perkins took her to over forty book talks in seventeen states.

She works as a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, where she coordinates Brown 2026, a campus-wide initiative marking 250 years of American democracy. At Brown, Rebecca teaches a first-year seminar called American Revolution in Popular Culture. Previously, she was a History Teacher at the Madeira School and a Lecturer at American University, where she received a PhD in 2021.

Rebecca’s research has been funded by the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the National Archives Foundation, and the White House Historical Association. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Politico Magazine, Time, Slate, Ms., and the Los Angles Review of Books.

Despite being from and living in Rhode Island, she also calls Washington, DC, “home.”