Wendy Slatkin is an emerita faculty member of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She received her Ph. D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. From her initial focus on late 19th and 20th century French art, she quickly expanded her scholarly interests to incorporate feminist art history. Today, she has an international reputation as an expert in the field of art history and gender studies. She is the author of In Her Own Words: A Primary Source Book of Autobiographical Texts by Women Artists in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Art and Community in California's Pomona Valley, 1930-1980.

