Amanda Bellows is a historian of the United States and teaches at Lang College - The New School. She is also an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer. Bellows received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She has published writing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions (William Morrow) and American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination (UNC Press).