KC Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he has taught since 1999. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. For several years, he worked with a team of historians transcribing the secret presidential recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon; his work focused on the Johnson administration. He was Fulbright Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University in 2007–2008.