Stéphanie Jeanjean is an art historian, curator, and translator who currently teaches art history at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and in the master's in contemporary art program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. She also works as an educator with the Guggenheim Museum and MoMA in New York. A native of France, Stéphanie was born in Langres, a culturally rich small town in the Champagne-Ardennes region of northeastern France, where she gained an early interest in the relationship between art, culture, and human activities throughout historical periods. She pursued an art history degree at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon and completed her PhD at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Stéphanie has presented her research at museums, universities, and conferences worldwide, including Tate Britain in London, KAIST University in South Korea, Brown and Cornell Universities, MIT, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Her work on French militant video was published in Afterall Journal and reprinted in Hilary Robinson’s anthology, Feminism Art Theory. She has written numerous journal articles in English and French, as well as a chapter on sociological art for Exhibited Cinema: An Anthology. Her major curated project, WE DISSENT: Design of the Women's Movement in New York, presented work by more than 130 women artists and women’s collectives at 41 Cooper Gallery in New York. It was named one of "10 Under-the-Radar Art Shows" by The New York Times in 2018 and is accessible at www.wedissent.space.