Summer Anne Lee is a dress historian, curator, and educator. Her research focuses on Anglo-American dress from the colonial period through the twentieth century, examining how clothing constructs and communicates ideas about gender, identity, modernity, and nationhood. Her forthcoming book, Presidential Fashion: An Illustrated History (Yale University Press, 2028), examines the history of American presidential dress.

Lee holds an MA in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice (Fashion Institute of Technology) and a BA in Communication and Media (CUNY School of Professional Studies). She has presented her research at conferences of the Costume Society of America, the Association of Dress Historians, and the Costume Society UK, and her fashion history expertise has been quoted in publications such as Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. She has contributed research to exhibitions and public-facing projects at the Underpinnings Museum, Bow Street Police Museum, Girl Museum, and the Historic House Trust of New York City, as well as to events in conjunction with the Museum at FIT, the Museum of the City of New York, and The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.