Jordana Pomeroy received her undergraduate degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College. She attended graduate school in art history at Columbia University, with dissertation research in England. Her doctorate focused on art collecting in early 19th-century England and the founding of the National Gallery, London. Her primary area of research is 19th-century art and the formation of collections. She served as a curator at the Denver Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, organizing exhibitions ranging from 16th-century women artists to contemporary Nordic design. She has edited numerous books and catalogues including Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel, Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque, and Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and other French National Museums. She has taught as affiliate faculty at Georgetown University and Louisiana State University in the museum studies department. Dr. Pomeroy is the Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University since January 2015.