Erika Doss is an art historian whose books include Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism; Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy; Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America; and American Art of the 20th–21st Centuries. Doss is Distinguished Chair in the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas, Dallas.