Sonia Sterling Chalif Simon (December 24, 1925 – February 4, 2022) was an American art historian and college professor.

Her parents were dance teachers; her father, who was also an ornithologist, was born in Odesa, and her mother was from New Jersey.

[8] Sonia Chalif Daniels was active in women's clubs as a young woman, and taught at Far Brook School in New Jersey.

She was also director of an art gallery at SUNY Cortland, from 1975 to 1980, and worked on the “Census of Stained Glass Windows in America, 1840-1940".

[7] Simon was a member of the faculty at Colby College from 1982 to 1996, while her husband was head of the art department; they sometimes co-taught survey courses on Western art, and they co-directed the school's Colby in Salamanca program for the 1989–1990 academic year.