Dr. Lewis received her B.A. from Wellesley College with High Honors in Art History, and her Ph.D. in American History from Binghamton University. Her publications include The Power of Art, an Art Appreciation textbook co-authored with her husband Richard and now in its third edition (Wadsworth, 2013), and Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1835-1885 (Ohio State University Press, 2009), winner of the Hagley Prize for the best book published in the field of business history. In 2007-2008, she was named Liberal Arts & Sciences Teacher of the Year, and in 2011 she won an Excellence in Scholarship Award from LA & S.